The Houston Astros continued their dominance of the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night, pounding out 17 hits and cruising to an 8-3 win at Fenway Park. Houston has now taken five of the six games this season played between the two clubs.
Boston (37-25) got off to a good start and took an early 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first when Xander Bogaerts hit a sacrifice fly and Hunter Renfoe knocked in a run with a single. Myles Straw got Houston on the board with an RBI double in the second. The Astros then took over in the third scoring four runs. Jose Altuve hit a solo homer to tie it 2-2, Jordan Alvarez and Yuli Gurriel both had RBI doubles, and Michael Brantley added an RBI single to make it 5-2. The Sox got their final run of the night with a solo homerun from Bogaerts in the fourth, his 11th of the season. Straw added a sacrifice fly in the seventh, and Alex Bregman hit a two-run homerun in the eighth to guarantee the series win for the guests.
Nathan Eovaldi (7-3) took the pitching loss allowing five runs on 11 hits with three walks and five strikeouts in 5.2 innings. Boston was held to just four hits on the night. Jake Odorizzi (1-3) picked up his first win allowing three runs on three hits with one walk and six strikeouts in 5.0 innings as Houston improves to 35-26. Cristian Javier got credit for his first save. Brantley and Bregman had three hits a piece, while Straw, Alvarez, Gurriel, Kyle Tucker, and Carlos Correa had two each. The Sox try to avoid a three game sweep on Thursday at 7:10 p.m. Boston sends LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (5-4, 5.59 ERA) to the hill against RHP Zack Greinke (6-2, 3.38) for Houston.
