This just in: interleague road games aren't any different. Houston was unable to avoid its fourth road sweep against the Rangers, and closed out the weekend in Arlington with a 2-0 loss.
Not a whole lot to cover in this game. Roy Oswalt turned in a pretty good outing, pitching well into the 8th inning and giving up only 2 runs and striking out 6. The runs came on an RBI groundout by Michael Young in the 1st and an upper-deck solo bomb by Mark Teixeira (his second in as many days) in the 6th. Unfortunately, that was good enough to make Sparky the loser, as the Astros made a disgustingly average-at-best Chan Ho Park look golden. Ho pitched seven shutout innings en route to the victory. The closest the Astros ever came was a 1-out fielder's choice by Lance Berkman in the 1st which resulted in Orlando Palmeiro being thrown out at the plate.
It was the team's 7th shutout of the season. Houston is a lame 6-15 so far in the month of May, an eerie parallel to the Astros' 2000 season. The team heads to the north side of Chicago on Monday to face the Cubs. First pitch is 7:05pm CDT, with Andy Pettitte facing Glendon Rusch.
