Odor wins it
Rougned Odor (above) hit a home run in the seventh inning, and his tiebreaking two-run shot in the eighth lifted the Texas Rangers to a 4-2 victory over the Houston Astros. It was the fifth career multihome run game for Odor, who finished with three hits, and his second this season.
HOUSTON — Rougned Odor hit a solo home run in the seventh inning and his tiebreaking two-run shot in the eighth lifted the Texas Rangers to a 4-2 victory over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night.
Odor tied it at 2-2 when he dropped the first pitch of the seventh inning from Chris Devenski into the front row in right field.
He was at it again in the eighth when, after a single by Jonathan Lucroy with two outs, he connected off Luke Gregerson (2-2) into the seats in left field to put Texas up 4-2. It was the fifth career multi-home run game for Odor, who finished with three hits, and his second this season.
Nick Martinez allowed 5 hits and 2 runs in 6 innings. Jose Leclerc (1-1) pitched a scoreless seventh for the victory and Matt Bush allowed 1 hit in 11/3 innings for his 8th save.
George Springer and Carlos Correa hit solo homers for the first-place Astros, who lost for the sixth time in eight games.
Houston starter Brad Peacock yielded 2 hits and walked 4 with a season-high 10 strikeouts in 42/3 innings. He was pitching on three days’ rest because of an injury to Lance McCullers.
The Astros had runners at first and second with one out in the eighth inning, but Keone Kela retired Marwin Gonzalez before Bush struck out Jose Altuve to end the threat.
The Rangers didn’t have a hit until Lucroy singled to start the fifth inning. Odor followed with a single before Jurickson Profar reached on a fielder’s choice to load the bases with one out. Shin-Soo Choo drew a walk with two outs to send a run home and chase Peacock. He was replaced