Pittsburgh Pirates at Houston Astros

· Major League Baseball

Pittsburgh Pirates

33-29, 15-14 Away

Final
9 - 11

Houston Astros

28-35, 14-17 Home

Smith has tiebreaking 2-run triple in 8th to help the Astros beat the Pirates 11-9

Yordan Alvarez had four hits and two RBI for the Astros. Smith and Paredes had two hits and three RBI apiece, and Jeremy Peña went 2 for 3 with a double.

AJ Blubaugh (3-2) pitched the eighth inning to get the victory. Josh Hader made his season debut and worked a scoreless ninth for the save, ending the Pirates' winning streak at four.

Houston starter Spencer Arrighetti, who went 4-1 in five starts with a 0.93 ERA in May, allowed four runs in four innings.

Henry Davis hit his first career grand slam in the fourth inning for Pittsburgh. Nick Gonzalez had a homer, double and three RBI.

The Pirates have scored nine-plus runs in four consecutive games, the longest streak in the majors this season, and has struck out at least nine batters in eight straight games.

Pittsburgh's Gregory Soto (4-1), who faced four batters, allowed three runs and three hits and walked one.

Up next Pirates RHP Jared Jones (0-0, 10.48 ERA) was set to start Thursday against RHP Kai-Wei Teng (3-3, 2.57) in the series finale.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Rodríguez grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Rodríguez hit for Davis
	9th Inning	Triolo walked.
	9th Inning	Garcia struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	O'Hearn grounded out to first.
	9th Inning	Hader relieved Blubaugh

Statistics

PIT		HOU
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
13	Ground Balls	12
11	Strikeouts	12
9	Runs Batted In	10
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
12	Hits	13
1	Stolen Bases	0
6	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
9	Runs	11
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
38	At Bats	39
2	Home Runs	1
1	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
21	Runners Left On Base	19
0	Triples	1
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	3
14	Fly Balls	15
1	Caught Stealing	0
204	Pitches	202
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	2
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
20	Total Bases	21
45	Plate Appearances	43
324.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
4	Extra Base Hits	5
8.4	Runs Created	8.1
.316	Batting Average	.333
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.526	Slugging Percentage	.538
.368	Secondary Average	.308
.422	On Base Percentage	.395
.949	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.934
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
8.4	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	8.4
59.0	Batter Rating	66.5
19.0	At Bats Per Home Run	39.0
0.50	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.53	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.70
.211	Isolated Power	.205
0.55	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.33
.133	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.093
.053	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.026
18.0	Runs Produced	21.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.9
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.5
101.5	MLB Rating	105.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0