Astros lose to Nationals 6-5
WP: Aaron Barrett (3-0)
LP: Darin Downs (1-1)
SV: Rafael Soriano (15)
contributed by Sphinx Drummond
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The Astros’ attempt at a comeback victory was usurped by the Nationals’ own comeback. After falling behind the Nationals by two runs early, the Astros scored four runs in the 4th to take the lead for a couple of innings. Gio Gonzalez was cruising though the first three innings before walking Jose Altuve to open the fourth. He promptly hit George Springer with a pitch and Jon Singleton loaded the bases with a single to center. Matt Dominguez hammered a single to left to score Altuve and Springer. Jason Castro doubled to score Singleton and Domiguez came in on Jonathan Villar’s sacrifice fly.
The Nationals tied the game in the bottom of the 6th inning. The Astros were able to go ahead once again in the seventh on a wild pitch that allowed Robbie Grossman to score from third. However, it was short lived and that lead turned into a two run deficit when the Nationals tacked on three in the bottom of the seventh to seal the scoring for the night.
Scott Feldman started the game and didn’t suck. The same couldn’t be said for the relief pitching, in fact it was the opposite, they did suck. Josh Zeid gave up 3 hits and 3 runs in his inning of work, Downs allowed 1 run on 1 hit and didn’t retire anyone, and Farnsworth blew the save opportunity by allowing the runner he inherited from Downs to score. Tony Sipp is good and did well finishing the game.
Homeboy Anthony Rendon hit his 10th long ball in the seventh, his star is really starting to shine. Thursday the Astros travel to St Petersburg to take on the TBRs. Collin McHugh (4-4) will face off against Chris Archer (3-4) in a 6:10 pm CST game.
WEATHER: 86ยบ, Partly Cloudy
ATTENDANCE: 25,453
GAME TIME: 3:42