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On a Sunday full of offensive in the Minute Maid Park, Arizona Diamondbacks avoided being swept away Houston Astrosdefeating them with a wide score of 12×6 on September 8, supported, above all, by the long-range batting of Pavin Smithsubstitute for the Cuban Lourdes Gurriel Jr.who is injured.
Smith hit three balls out of the park and drove in eight against the pitches of Justin Verlander and reliever Kaleb Ort. The first came in the top of the second with two on board and then, two innings later, with the angles loaded, he hit a Grand Slam off the three-time Cy Young hitter to seal the loss of Houston Astros.
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Against Ort, he dispatched the third with the bases empty and thus completed the best game of his career. Before entering this clash he had only accumulated four home runs in 43 games played. Without a doubt, he is taking advantage of the gap that Lourdes Gurriel Jr. opened for him with her injury and now he is averaging .270 with 26 RBIs.
Arizona’s other runs came in the third inning on a RBI single by Eugenio Suárez, in the seventh on a sacrifice fly by Luis Guillorme, in the eighth on another RBI single by Jake McCarty and finally Suárez himself, when he hit the ball (home run 26) off Josh Hader in the ninth, who had not seen action since August 30.
Houston Astros tried to come back but couldn’t beat Arizona
Houston Astros They discounted two in the fourth by a two-run homer to left field by Alex Bregman and three more in the fifth, when they combined for an RBI hit Jose Altuvea sacrifice fly by Kyle Tucker and another hit by Yainer Díaz, which completed the rally.
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In the eighth inning, the Houston Astros were able to get closer when they loaded the bases with two outs on singles by Yainer, Jeremy Peña and Chas McCormick (3-for-4). However, Jose Altuve He struck out with the bases loaded to go 2-for-5, with one run scored, one RBI and two strikeouts in the game and raise his average to .301. In the ninth, they put the final figures on a hit by Tucker and another by Yainer who went 3-for-5 with two RBIs.
The victory went to Kevin Ginkel (8-3), who got just one out, with AJ Puck standing out as a relief pitcher, who retired two scoreless innings, struck out two, gave up no walks and allowed just one hit.
The defeated was Justin Verlander (3-6), who had a disastrous day. In three innings of work, they connected with eight hits and scored the same number of runs. He raised his ERA to 5.30 and since his return due to injury he has four losses in the same number of starts. He has worked 17.2 innings, they have hit 27 hits against him, they have scored 19 runs, all earned, for a very high ERA of 9.68.
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