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05/03 16:46 CDT Cam Smith gets go-ahead 2-run single in 10th; Astros hold off
Red Sox 3-1
Cam Smith gets go-ahead 2-run single in 10th; Astros hold off Red Sox 3-1
By KEN POWTAK
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) --- Cam Smith hit a two-out, two-run single off the Green Monster
in the 10th inning, and the Houston Astros beat the Boston Red Sox 3-1 on
Sunday to take the series.
Jarren Duran hit a solo homer for the Red Sox, his second homer in three games
after belting a three-run shot in Friday's victory.
Boston went 0 for 11 with runners on, stranding 13.
Boston starter Ranger Surez left the game after four scoreless innings due to
right hamstring tightness. Coming off eight scoreless innings of one-hit ball
with 10 strikeouts in his last start, he gave up three hits, struck out three
and walked one.
Astros first baseman Christian Walker was back in the lineup and went 2 for 3
after leaving Saturday's win because he was hit in the helmet by a fastball. He
went 6 for 10 in the series.
Houston slugger Yordan Alvarez was just 1 for 14 in the series with a single.
After Jose Altuve bounced into a rare 6-2-5 double play, Zack Kelly (0-2)
reloaded the bases with a walk before Smith's hit. Brice Matthews was cut down
at the plate after Smith was in a rundown.
Bryan Abreu (1-2) worked two innings for the victory, getting Ceddanne Rafaela
to bounce into a game-ending double play with the bases loaded.
Making his first start since going on the injured list with mid-back
inflammation April 13, Houston's Cody Bolton went 2 1/3 scoreless innings.
Duran homered into the right-field seats in the fifth and Houston tied it on
Matthews' sacrifice fly in the sixth.
Up next
Astros haven't named a starter for their Monday home game against the Dodgers.
RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (2-2, 2.87 ERA) is set to start for Los Angeles.
Red Sox LHP Payton Tolle (0-1, 3.38) is slated to start the opener of a
three-game series Monday in Detroit against Tigers' ace LHP Tarik Skubal (3-2,
2.70).
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