Cooper Homel drove an opposite-sector house at the bottom of the eighth innings, and host Houston Astro on Tuesday claimed a 1-0 win over Filadelphia Philips in a three-game interlayer series opener.
Hammel wasted the shutout dialect of Phillies Left-Hand Ranger Suarez (6-2) with his second home run this season. He drilled 3-2 cutters 390 feet in a home bulpane in the right-sensor field to break the scorer tie.
Astro Closeer Josh Hader recorded his 20th savings in the ninth. Astro Reliler Brian Abru (2-3) won with an ideal eighth.
Suarez was extraordinary. He needed only 27 pitches to complete a trip through the Houston lineup and did not allow a Basarner until he issued an out walk for Isaac Parade in the fourth. Suarez snatched a soft liner from Jose Altuve before doubling the parade.
Astros launched a serious threat in the sixth when Yaner Diaz and Hammel opened the frame with a back-to-back hit. Suarez replied by motivating Maurisio Dubon to roll in a double play, and he trapped the runners on the corners with a third strike against the parade. Suarez implicated another runner in the seventh and returned to the eighth with 91 pitches on his laser.
His 99th pitch of the game was his undone. Suarez allowed four hits with seven strikes in 7 2/3 innings and one run on two walks.
Astro left -handed batsman Frame Waldez matched zero with Suarez before departing after the seventh.
Waldez worked around two Besorners in the first top and stranded two more in the second. He r
In the fourth, Waldez found himself in another pickle when Edmondo Sosa left a double double immediately after the Otto Camp, when the first came to a fielding error by the Christian walker on the base. But Waldez again dropped a pair down to snatch and retained its shutout bid.
The fifth innings was the only frame in which Waldez retired the side in order. He found Sosa to take the ground to the ground in an inning-ending double play in the sixth and trapped in the seventh to roll Schwarber to roll a harmless ground ball for dubon in second place.
Waldez allowed four hits and four walks with three strikes in a seven -score innings.
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