Astros rally for win, take series after AL West-leading Texas blows eight-run lead

ARLINGTON, Texas — Jose Abreu and Chas McCormick had back-to-back RBI doubles within the ninth inning and the second-place Houston Astros, after blowing an eight-run lead, closed out a sequence victory with a wild 12-11 win over the AL West-leading Texas Rangers on Monday.

Abreu and McCormick additionally homered earlier for Houston (47-38), which took three of 4 towards their instate rival to maneuver inside three video games of the division lead. It is the closest the Astros have been in a month after trailing by as many as 6 1/2 video games.

Kyle Tucker, who hit Houston’s majors-best eighth grand slam within the second for a 6-0 lead, led off the ninth with a single towards Rangers nearer Will Smith (1-3), who had solely his second blown save in 16 possibilities. Abreu and McCormack, who had a three-run triple within the eighth inning of Sunday’s 5-3 win, then adopted Alex Bregman’s deep flyout with their doubles.

The Rangers had taken their solely lead on Corey Seager’s sacrifice fly that made it 11-10 within the eighth, proper after newly acquired reliever Aroldis Chapman pitched an ideal prime of the inning for them.

Bryan Abreu (3-2), the fifth Houston pitcher, allowed that run within the eighth earlier than Ryan Pressly labored the ninth for his 18th save in 21 tries.

Travis Jankowski had three hits and a career-high 5 RBIs for the Rangers (50-35). He hit a three-run homer within the fourth, then an inning later had a two-run single as a part of a four-run outburst that acquired them inside 10-9.

Rangers All-Star proper fielder Adolis Garcia hit his twenty first homer, a solo shot within the seventh that tied the sport at 10. His second RBI within the sport was his 69th of the season, placing him within the MLB lead at that time. Leody Taveras, who scored on Seager’s sac fly, hit a two-run homer within the third.

Tucker’s fourth profession slam with one out within the second inning put the Astros up 6-0 and chased Texas starter Martin Perez, who has given up 16 homers already after permitting solely 11 throughout his All-Star season final 12 months. That inning opened with McCormick and Yainer Diaz hitting back-to-back homers.

The Rangers, who’ve been in first place for all however at some point this season, have misplaced 15 of their previous 25 video games.

Texas scored a number of runs within the third, fourth and fifth innings towards Astros starter Cristian Javier, who had his fifth consecutive no-decision after profitable 5 begins in a row. The right-hander allowed eight runs and 9 hits over 4 1/3 innings.

FOR STARTERS

Javier, who has a 7-1 document, has given up 18 runs over 10 2/3 innings his previous three begins. Manager Dusty Baker made a mound go to with out pulling him after Garcia’s RBI single with out one within the fifth acquired Texas inside 10-6. Baker was instantly again out to make a pitching change after the following batter, Josh Jung, had a single. … It was the shortest outing for Perez in his 49 begins since rejoining the Rangers earlier than final season after three years away.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Astros: All-Star slugger Yordan Alvarez went via some outfield drills, a day after he took swings within the batting cage for the primary time since being sidelined by a proper indirect pressure practically a month in the past. … SS Jeremy Pena missed your entire sequence with neck stiffness, however took some groundballs and was set to hit within the cage.

SOLD-OUT SERIES

All 4 video games of the sequence have been offered out, the longest consecutive sellout streak for the Rangers at residence since 5 in a row in the course of the 2012 season, once they have been coming off back-to-back World Series appearances. The complete attendance for the sequence was 158,070.

UP NEXT

Astros: After going 6-4 on its season-long 10-game street journey, Houston has a two-game set towards Colorado.

Rangers: Dane Dunning (7-1, 2.69 ERA) pitches Tuesday within the opener of a three-game sequence at Boston.

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