Houston Astros at Colorado Rockies

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Houston Astros

51-34, 19-20 Away

Final
6 - 5

Colorado Rockies

19-66, 8-33 Home

Victor Caratini's 3rd career grand slam leads the Astros past the Rockies 6-5

Houston Astros vs. Colorado Rockies: Game Highlights

The Astros have won seven of eight and 15 of their last 19 games.

The Rockies have lost nine of 11 following their first four-game winning streak, falling to a major league-worst 19-66. Colorado’s losses are tied for the most by a major league team in the modern era through the first 85 games.

The Rockies are 8-33 at Coors Field, tied with the 2003 Tigers for the worst start through the first 41 home games of a season in the modern era.

Caratini’s homer in the third gave Houston a 6-1 lead.

Houston reliever Bennett Sousa (2-0) kept Colorado scoreless in the sixth and Bryan Abreu struck out the side in the eighth. Josh Hader added two strikeouts in the ninth to improve to 24 for 24 in save chances — the longest perfect streak in club history to open a season.

Colorado rookie Chase Dollander (2-9) allowed six earned runs in 2 2/3 innings, his shortest start of the season.

Hunter Goodman hit solo homers in the first and ninth innings for his fifth career two-homer game.

Colorado's Jordan Beck had his first career five-hit game.

Key moment Dollander thew the ball into center field on a pickoff attempt with no outs in the third to put runners on first and third. Jake Meyers picked up an RBI on a fielder’s choice to give Houston the lead for good at 2-1.

Key stat Jose Altuve went 0 for 4 to remain one hit shy of tying Jeff Bagwell (2,314) for second place on the Astros career hits list.

Up next Hunter Brown (8-3, 1.74 ERA), who has the fourth-lowest ERA through the first 16 starts of a season in Astros history, faces Austin Gomber (0-1, 6.14) on Wednesday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Doyle struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Estrada struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Beck singled to left.
	9th Inning	Goodman homered to left center (443 feet).
	9th Inning	Freeman flied out to right.
	9th Inning	Hader relieved Abreu

Statistics

HOU		COL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
0	Ground Balls	0
9	Strikeouts	10
6	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	12
0	Stolen Bases	0
4	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	5
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
36	At Bats	38
1	Home Runs	2
1	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
15	Runners Left On Base	16
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	2
0	Fly Balls	0
0	Caught Stealing	0
171	Pitches	146
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
12	Total Bases	20
40	Plate Appearances	41
162.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
1	Extra Base Hits	4
3.8	Runs Created	6.9
.250	Batting Average	.316
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.333	Slugging Percentage	.526
.194	Secondary Average	.263
.325	On Base Percentage	.341
.658	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.868
0.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.0
3.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	6.9
36.0	Batter Rating	42.0
36.0	At Bats Per Home Run	19.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.28	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.56
.083	Isolated Power	.211
0.44	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.20
.100	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.049
-.056	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.053
12.0	Runs Produced	10.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
84.0	MLB Rating	92.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0