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Monday 26 august 2019
Houston Astros vs. Los Angeles Angels
HOUSTON (AP) — The As- of hits, a couple of big A-game especially with a
tros finally began to barrel swings. Just everybody kind lineup like that," Barria said
up baseballs in the eighth of dialed in and we had an through a translator.
inning, and it seemed like explosive inning and sepa- Andrelton Simmons and Bri-
they might never stop. rated ourselves and had a an Goodwin hit solo home
Jose Altuve's career- comfortable win." runs for the Angels.
high tying 24th home run Houston has won seven of "Obviously, we didn't have
capped a seven-run eighth eight. The club entered the a very good offensive
after Framber Valdez grind- day tied with the Yankees game," Angels manager
ed through six gritty innings, for the best record in the AL Brad Ausmus said. "We had
and Houston beat the Los at 84-47. really the one missed op-
Angeles Angels 11-2 Sun- "Play our game, we can't portunity with the bases
day. really get stuck score- loaded and nobody out."
Alex Bregman, Abraham board watching," Reddick TRAINER'S ROOM
Toro and Josh Reddick also said. "Happens every year, Angels: INF Tommy La Stel-
drove in runs in the eighth team's get so caught up in la (right tibia fracture) re-
as the Astros sent 11 batters looking at the out of town sumed baseball activities
to the plate. scoreboard. That's all fine Saturday. La Stella took
"We did a good job of do- and dandy once we've some ground balls, hit off
ing everything right," Astros gotten our wins. When that the tee and did soft toss.
manager AJ Hinch said. happens, we can watch all Astros: SS Carlos Correa
"We took advantage of a we want to." (lower back stiffness) did
few mistakes, we hit the ball Houston Astros starting pitcher Framber Valdez throws against Michael Brantley led off agility work and light run-
in a couple of good spots the Los Angeles Angels during the first inning of a baseball the eighth with a single, ex- ning but is still not hitting or
to capitalize on a couple game Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019, in Houston. Associated Press tending his hitting streak to throwing. The Astros hope
18 games. Reddick's two- to increase his activity over
run double gave him three the coming days includ-
RBIs. It was Reddick's first ing being able to do bat-
RBIs since Aug. 10 and first ting practice and fielding
multihit game since July 14. ground balls. ... Aledmys
"It was good to get in there Díaz (foot) was set to con-
and contribute today and it tinue his rehab assignment
actually mean something," with Triple-A Round Rock on
Reddick said. "A lot of my Sunday, splitting time be-
at-bats haven't meant any- tween shortstop and third
thing lately because we're base. Hinch said he could
usually up 3-0 by the time I be reactivated by Tuesday.
get up. That's a good prob- UP NEXT
lem to have." Angels: LHP Andrew He-
Valdez was called up from aney (3-3, 4.31 ERA) will start
Triple-A Round Rock and the series opener against
earned his first win since the Rangers on Tuesday
June 15, ending a streak of after a day off. Heaney is
four-straight losses. looking to build off his last
Valdez (4-6) gave up one start, where he struck out a
run, two hits and five walks career-high 14 in eight in-
but struck out eight, which nings, which came against
tied a season high. He ran the Rangers.
into trouble in the third, Astros: RHP Justin Verlander
loading the bases with no (15-5, 2.77 ERA) will start the
outs. Back-to-back strike- series opener against the
outs and then a groundout Rays on Tuesday after a
by Albert Pujols kept the day off. Verlander is com-
Angels off the board. ing off a complete-game
"I just wanted to throw my loss to the Tigers where he
best pitches and focus and struck out 11 and walked
make sure that I executed none. Former Astros RHP
my best pitches so that I Charlie Morton (13-5, 2.85)
could get them out," he is slated to pitch for Tampa
said through a translator. Bay.q
Martin Maldonado hit a
two-run homer in the sev-
enth to extend the lead to
4-1. Jaime Barria (4-7) only
gave up two runs but still
was stuck with his fourth-
straight loss. Barria allowed
three hits, struck out four
and walked three in 5 1/3
innings.
"I know I have to bring my
