{"id":61493,"date":"2025-07-13T05:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/61493\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T05:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:52:13","slug":"astros-avoid-late-collapse-take-down-rangers-in-11-inning-walk-off-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/61493\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros avoid late collapse, take down Rangers in 11-inning walk-off win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">After losing four-straight games, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Houston_Astros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Houston_Astros\/\">Houston Astros<\/a> finally got back into the win column Saturday night, taking down the Texas Rangers in a 5-4 victory that took 11 innings to wrap up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jose Altuve, Yainer Diaz and Mauricio Dubon each recorded a solo home run in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Framber Valdez started at the mound for Houston. After loading the bases and surrendering a run in the opening inning, he found his footing and settled in for a quality start. In 6.0 innings of action, he allowed four hits and one run while recording 10 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">After Bryan Abreu gave up a solo home run to Marcus Semien in the top of the eighth inning to make it a 3-2 ballgame, closer Josh Hader came in for relief to close out the ninth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Down to their last out, Rangers\u2019 designated hitter Kyle Higashioka blasted a solo home run into left field to tie the game. After the Astros failed to score in the bottom of the frame, the game went to extra innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">After the teams each blanked in the 10th inning, the Rangers took a 4-3 lead in the top of the 11th inning off of a double by Adolis Garcia. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In the bottom of the frame, two straight walks loaded the bases for Houston with nobody out. Christian Walker brought a run home with a sacrifice fly to tie the score at four, and Zack Short finished the deal with a hit to bring in the winning run from second base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The win lifts the Astros to 56-39 on the season, while the Rangers fall to 47-49.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing four-straight games, the Houston Astros finally got back into the win column Saturday night, taking down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[7951,591,4345,2382,425,1266,50,62,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-61493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-astros","12":"tag-local","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114844371711054947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61493","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=61493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}