Houston Astros at San Francisco Giants

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Houston Astros

61-60, 31-31 Away

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San Francisco Giants

50-70, 28-30 Home

Rookies Bryce Eldridge and Carson Whisenhunt lead the Giants past the Astros, 4-1

Jose Altuve was hit by a pitch from Whisenhunt (3-3) to load the bases with one out in the first. Altuve stayed in the game but did not return for the bottom of the second inning with what the team said was a left foot contusion.

Christian Walker popped out to short right field for the second out, and Nelson Velázquez grounded out to third in his first at-bat with the Astros after being claimed off waivers from the St. Louis Cardinals.

Houston loaded the bases with nobody out in the second, but managed only a sacrifice fly by Yordan Alvarez for a 1-0 lead.

Rafael Devers drew a walk off Hunter Brown (3-2) and took second on a wild pitch to start the bottom of the inning. Drew Gilbert's one-out single tied it.

Gilbert walked after a successful ABS challenge with one out in the fourth and advanced on a groundout before scoring on rookie Drew Cavanaugh's go-ahead single.

Eldridge hit his 12th homer with one out in the fifth for a 3-1 advantage.

Cavanaugh had a two-out single off Enyel De Los Santos in the sixth and rookie Christian Koss doubled for a 4-1 lead.

Whisenhunt allowed a run on four hits with three walks and retired 11 in a row at one point. He left after a two-out walk in the sixth, matching his longest outing through six starts this season and 11 overall. He threw 55 of his 96 pitches in the first two innings.

Carson Seymour pitched two scoreless innings, Reiver Sanmartin got the final out in the eighth, and JT Brubaker pitched the ninth for his second career save.

Brown pitched five innings and yielded three runs on five hits and three walks.

Houston (61-60) rallied to beat San Francisco (50-70) in Monday's opener 6-3 in 10 innings.

Up nex t Neither team has announced a starting pitcher for Wednesday's series finale.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Peña grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Diaz grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Smith grounded out to catcher.
	9th Inning	Brubaker relieved Sanmartín
	8th Inning	Koss flied out to center.
	8th Inning	Cavanaugh grounded out to first, Basabe to third.

Statistics

HOU		SF
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
2	Hit By Pitch	0
11	Ground Balls	12
4	Strikeouts	8
1	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
5	Hits	9
0	Stolen Bases	2
3	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	4
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
1	Sacrifice Flies	0
31	At Bats	33
0	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
15	Runners Left On Base	18
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	2
17	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	0
138	Pitches	137
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
1	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
5	Total Bases	14
37	Plate Appearances	36
0.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
0	Extra Base Hits	3
1.6	Runs Created	4.8
.161	Batting Average	.273
1.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.161	Slugging Percentage	.424
.097	Secondary Average	.303
.270	On Base Percentage	.333
.432	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.758
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
1.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.2
9.0	Batter Rating	34.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	33.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.73	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.81
.000	Isolated Power	.152
0.75	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.38
.081	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.083
-.065	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.030
2.0	Runs Produced	8.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
65.0	MLB Rating	83.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0