Zach Cole and Jesus Sanchez came big after an injury to Yordan Alvarez, and the Astros of Houston joined for a 6-3 victory against the Texas Rangers visiting a series of three games on Monday with major ramifications in the playoffs.
Alvarez had to leave the match after slipping in the marble while marking a first round race, injuring his left ankle. The race, one of the two resulting from an error to launch by the Rangers launcher, Jack Leiter, gave Houston a 2-0 lead.
The Astros (82-69) finished three games on the Rangers (79-72) in the race for the third and last position of the American League at night. Houston is now at the rear of the seattle inactive seattle (82-68) naval match, which run the Al West.
Alvarez’s injury encouraged Cole to enter the right field game, while Sanchez slipped into the opening on the left. The two played important roles in the third victory of Houston in the last four games.
Cole launched a circuit of two two-point outings on Leiter in fifth round, putting the astros at the top for good to 4-3. The long ball was the second in the career of the major match of the recruit.
Texas had the chance to link the match in the seventh, when Wyatt Langford chose with two and two withdrawals. But Sanchez, who had started the game in the right field, threw Johan Heim in marble, preserving the advantage 4-3.
Sanchez then doubled with two withdrawals at the end of the seventh, and scored when Jeremy Pena followed with a double score. Cole then made an evening of three RBIs with a single that marked Pena for an advance of 6-3.
Astros Steven Okert, Jayden Murray, Bryan King and Bryan Abreu launched 4 1/3 of the Relief Ballon Sleeve of Jason Alexander. The starter was removed from two withdrawals in the fifth, after having served a two -point circuit to Josh Jung and a simple RBI in Josh Smith earlier in the Channel.
Okert (3-2), who withdrew three of the four strikers he faced, was credited with the victory. Abreu marked his sixth judgment despite a safe ninth.
Alexander was accused of the three races of the Rangers, only one of which was won. He abandoned five strokes and a walk while withdrawing five.
Leiter (9-9) authorized six points, three deserved. He served five strokes and a walk, and he withdrew four.
Pena joined Cole with two strokes for the astros, which were released 10-6.
Langford and Jung, of which Homer was his 14th, had a success each for the Rangers, who lost a second consecutive after a sequence of six consecutive victories.
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