TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Yainer Diaz drilled a tiebreaking home run in the ninth inning, Carlos Correa hit his 200th career homer and the Houston Astros beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
After Houston\u2019s bullpen gave up a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the eighth, Diaz restored the lead with a one-out homer off Toronto closer Jeff Hoffman.<\/p>\n
Hoffman (9-7) leads all MLB relievers with 15 home runs allowed this season.<\/p>\n
Enyel De Los Santos (6-3) got two outs for the win and Bryan Abreu finished for his fifth save in 10 chances.<\/p>\n
Astros right-hander Jason Alexander matched a career high by pitching seven shutout innings. He allowed just three hits, walked one and struck out three.<\/p>\n
Diaz opened the scoring with an RBI double in the second and Correa hit a solo home run in the sixth, but the Astros couldn\u2019t hold the lead.<\/p>\n
Steven Okert relieved Alexander in the eighth and gave up singles to three of the four batters he faced. Okert exited after an RBI hit by Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez<\/p>\n
De Los Santos entered with runners at the corners and struck out George Springer for the second out, but Nathan Lukes tied it with a ground ball single on a full count pitch.<\/p>\n
De Los Santos ended the inning by getting Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to ground out.<\/p>\n
Correa has 13 home runs this season, including six in 36 games since rejoining the Astros.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Diaz connected on a 95 mph fastball for his 19th home run.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
Entering play Wednesday, Correa ranked fourth in career home runs among active players whose primary position is shortstop. He trails Francisco Lindor (274), Corey Seager (221) and Trevor Story (203).<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Blue Jays RHP Kevin Gausman (9-10, 3.63 ERA) is expected to face Astros RHP Cristian Javier (1-2, 4.43) in Thursday\u2019s series finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Yainer Diaz drilled a tiebreaking home run in the ninth inning, Carlos Correa hit his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":218233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[30320,30319,1578,359,1596,4345,1266,50,7202,62,358,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-218232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-app-professional-sports","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-austin","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115185860173671382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}