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Thursday 6 July 2023

Díaz homers twice to help Astros down

Rockies 6-4

By KRISTIE RIEKEN his two-run homer made it surance run in the bottom
AP Sports Writer 3-0 in the fourth in his first of the inning to sweep the
HOUSTON (AP) — Yainer career two-homer game. two-game series and se-
Díaz homered in his first two Peña’s home run came lat- cure a fourth straight vic-
at-bats and Jeremy Peña er in that inning to push the tory.
added a two-run shot in his lead to 5-0. He returned af- C.J. Cron also homered for
return from injury to lead ter missing five games be- the Rockies, who dropped
the Houston Astros past the cause of a stiff neck. their 10th straight road
Colorado Rockies 6-4 on The Rockies cut the lead game.
Houston Astros’ Yainer Diaz connects for a two run home run Wednesday. to 1 on a homer by Ran- Houston starter J.P. France
against the Colorado Rockies during the fourth inning of a
baseball game Wednesday, July 5, 2023, in Houston. Díaz had a solo home run dal Grichuk in the seventh, (4-3) allowed six hits and
Associated Press in the second inning and but Houston added an in- three runs in six innings.
Ryan Pressly pitched a
scoreless ninth for his 19th
save.
Colorado’s Chase Ander-
son (0-4) yielded seven hits
and five runs in four innings
for his fourth straight loss.
He has allowed 30 hits, 27
runs and eight homers in
that span.
There was one out in the
second when Díaz’s first
homer put the Astros on
top 1-0.
Kyle Tucker singled to
open Houston’s fourth but
was caught trying to steal
second base. José Abreu
singled to right field before
Díaz connected again to
make it 3-0.
Corey Julks singled with
two outs and Peña pushed
the lead to 5-0 when he
sent Anderson’s next pitch
into the seats in right field
for his 10th homer this sea-
son.
Nolan Jones walked to
start the fifth for Colorado
before a one-out single
by Ezequiel Tovar. A single
by Harold Castro scored
Jones to cut the lead to
5-1. A wild pitch by France
left runners on second
and third and Jurickson
Profar made it 5-2 with an
RBI single. France limited
the damage in the inning
when Kris Bryant grounded
into a double play.
Cron’s homer came with
two outs in the sixth inning
to get the Rockies within
5-3.q