“Hopefully I can continue to at least have quality at-bats”. There was very little wasted effort from either side as Gray (12-4) got the upper hand of Dallas Keuchel in a game that lasted 2 hours, 20 minutes.
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“They’re aggressive and they hit a lot of balls hard”, Gray said. “They worked the count pretty well”. I’m surprised we got him.
“It feels real good”, Chavez said.
Lowrie has reached base in all six games against the team he played for last year, going 7 for 20 with seven RBIs and six walks. It does not harm that his 5.eight WAR (wins above alternative) is one of the best within the AL, with exclusively Keuchel (5.1) over Four.zero within the league. “He keeps an even keel”.
Houston Astros’ Luis Valbuena celebrates after hitting a home run… “Then – when you throw on top of that he’s good, he’s got experience, he’s pitched in a variety of roles – it’ll be a good addition for us.”… “He showed it tonight”.
Oakland Athletics’ Ike Davis, Coco Crisp, Brett Lawrie, and Marcus Semien, from left, celebrate the team’s 3-1 victory over the Houston Astros in a baseball game Friday, August 7, 2015, in Oakland, Calif. The Astros managed six hits and five walks with Preston Tucker’s 11th homer in the 4th accounting for the scoring. Fiers struggled in a five inning relief stint versus the Rangers with six runs plated on seven hits and three BB. “We didn’t get into the game today and you don’t think the first inning is going to bite you when you hold them to two runs, we walked a couple of guys”.
“Obviously we want to win games, that’s the most important thing”, Valencia said. “I thought Dallas did a good job of holding them down a little bit”.
The A’s took a 1-0 lead in the second. After Keuchel struck out Sam Fuld, Burns hit a sacrifice fly. Valencia went 2-for-3 and is now 7-for-12 with two doubles and two home runs against Keuchel for his career.
It was just that kind of night for the Astros. Reddick is 1 for 15 lifetime against Keuchel…. Houston acquired Perez (3.10 ERA) via trade from the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night. Frias, from the Dominican Republic, has pitched at two ranges of Class A this yr with a 7.23 ERA in 19 video games.
Astros: RHP Collin McHugh (13-5, 4.27) has won four straight decisions.
Bassitt (1-4, 2.64 ERA) delivered an outstanding performance of his own Tuesday against Baltimore, scattering five hits across seven scoreless innings to record his second major league win.
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It was a very frustrating game to watch for Astros fans, but after watching Sonny Gray lower his ERA to a gaudy 2.06 for the season, there was some solace in the feeling amongst fans that this was more an example of getting beaten by a superior pitcher than just seeing the bats inexplicably disappear, as had seemed to be the case often in road games recently.
