Two-out of Came Smith, RBI Single broke a tie at the bottom of the eighth and Houston Astro won 2–1 on a tour of Philadelphia Philos on Thursday afternoon.
Astros beat up the three-game chain, dominating the pitching. Houston also won 1-0 and 2–0. Astro has won five of its last six.
Phillies have lost four of their last five.
Smith’s line single to left, bus lepping tray turds, away from Los Orian Kering (5-3), scored Isaac Parade from another. He had hit a pitch and went to another place on Jose Altuve’s single.
Brian Abru (3-3) won as he faced all four batsmen to close the game.
Starters Hunter Brown (Houston) and Christopher Sanchez (Philadelphia) were excellent.
Brown did not allow only three hits in a seven -score innings, including any walk and nine strikes. He retired nine in a line from the third to the third innings. The line was taken to sixth position from Rafael Marnan’s singles. But Brown whipped the next three batsmen for 12 out of 13 retired hits. Outing dropped the right -handed run average from 1.88 to 1.74.
Astros Reluver Brian King started the eighth and surrendered the tying run on the warning track at The Wright on Brandon Marsh’s sacrifice fly. This was the first run of the series, in its 26th innings.
Sanchez gave a run on five hits in six plus innings without a batsman and excluded 11. He was replaced by Max Lazar after the leadoff double of Christian Walker in the seventh. A groundout took Walker to third place with one, but Lajar first got a pinch of a pinch on a soft liner to Victor Karatini and Mauricio Dabon on a groundout.
Astro took a 1-0 lead in the second one over Jaur Diaz’s RBI single. The runners left the first and third place, but Sanchez Cooper survived further damage to take out Hamel and Dubon.
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