Houston Astros at Tampa Bay Rays

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Houston Astros

75-75, 38-37 Away

Final
4 - 14

Tampa Bay Rays

90-59, 50-25 Home

Freddy Peralta, Jonathan Aranda help Rays beat Astros 14-4 to sweep series

Houston Astros vs. Tampa Bay Rays: Game Highlights

Peralta (9-11) walked three and threw 86 pitches for the Rays, who became the first AL team to reach 90 wins this season. The right-hander won his fourth straight start and has surrendered two runs over his last 23 innings.

Victor Mesa Jr. had three of the Rays' 15 hits. He had a two-run triple in the first inning off Hayden Wesneski (5-2) before scoring on Chandler Simpson's groundout to give Tampa Bay the lead for good.

Every Rays starter had at least one hit and scored at least one run.

Richie Palacios hit his 10th homer — a three-run shot for a 7-0 lead after shortstop Jeremy Peña dropped a two-out pop-up to extend the third inning.

Aranda hit a one-out solo shot off Enyel De Los Santos in the fourth before adding his 21st home run this season in the seventh — a two-run shot off Ronel Blanco. Nick Fortes hit his fifth homer — a two-run shot in the fifth off Blanco to make it 11-0.

Isaac Paredes hit a two-run homer in the sixth — his 21st — for Houston's first hit. It came against Brody Hopkins, who replaced Peralta in his major league debut and walked Nick Allen on four pitches.

Allen hit his third homer and Nelson Velázquez added his sixth as the pair hit back-to-back solo shots off Casey Legumina in the eighth.

Wesneski gave up seven runs — three earned — on six hits in three innings.

Up next Astros RHP Hunter Brown (5-3, 3.52) starts Tuesday in Houston against the Royals.

Rays RHP Griffin Jax (7-10, 3.99) starts Tuesday against the visiting Athletics.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Allen fouled out to first.
	9th Inning	Trammell grounded out to second, Barrosa to third.
	9th Inning	Smith popped out to second.
	9th Inning	Barrosa doubled to right.
	9th Inning	Matz relieved Legumina
	8th Inning	DeLuca popped out to pitcher.

Statistics

HOU		TB
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
6	Ground Balls	11
7	Strikeouts	5
4	Runs Batted In	13
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
4	Hits	15
0	Stolen Bases	0
6	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	14
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
31	At Bats	40
3	Home Runs	4
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
13	Runners Left On Base	11
0	Triples	1
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	2
18	Fly Balls	24
0	Caught Stealing	0
158	Pitches	148
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
14	Total Bases	31
37	Plate Appearances	42
486.0	Projected Home Runs	648.0
4	Extra Base Hits	7
4.2	Runs Created	11.2
.129	Batting Average	.375
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.452	Slugging Percentage	.775
.516	Secondary Average	.450
.270	On Base Percentage	.405
.722	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.180
0.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.5
4.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	12.1
31.0	Batter Rating	87.5
10.3	At Bats Per Home Run	10.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.27	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.52
.323	Isolated Power	.400
0.86	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.40
.162	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.048
.387	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.075
8.0	Runs Produced	27.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.9
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.8
0.0	Balls In Play Average	0.4
78.0	MLB Rating	125.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0