HOUSTON — \u2014 Jose Altuve hit a three-run home run, Jeremy Pe\u00f1a had two solo shots and the Houston Astros beat the Cleveland Guardians 9-3 on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Altuve\u2019s eighth home run of the season came on the first pitch of the night from Guardians reliever Matt Festa. It landed in the first row of the left- field Crawford Boxes.<\/p>\n
Pe\u00f1a\u2019s first home run of the night came in the third inning to cut Cleveland\u2019s lead to a run, and then he led off the seventh with his sixth home run of the season and third multi-homer game of his career. He finished the night 3 for 5 with three RBI.<\/p>\n
Altuve added an RBI double later in the inning for a season-high four RBI.<\/p>\n
After failing to complete the first inning in his previous start, Tatsuya Imai (4-3) struck out a career-high 11 batters while allowing three runs on six hits over six innings without issuing a walk. He retired the final 11 he faced after giving up a two-run homer to Rhys Hoskins in the third inning.<\/p>\n
The 11 strikeouts were a season high by an Astros pitcher, and it\u2019s the first time they\u2019ve had a pitcher strike out at least 11 without walking a batter since Yusei Kikuchi on Aug. 31, 2024.<\/p>\n
Houston’s Yordan Alvarez was 1 for 4 with a walk to extend his on-base streak to 25 games.<\/p>\n
Tanner Bibee (2-8) was charged with four runs, three earned, over 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Erik Sabrowski allowed two runs over 1\/3 of an inning for Cleveland after being reinstated from the injured list before the game.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/strong><\/p>\n Astros RHP Spencer Arrighetti (7-2, 2.57 ERA) was set to face LHP Joey Cantillo (5-3, 4.38 ERA) on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HOUSTON — \u2014 Jose Altuve hit a three-run home run, Jeremy Pe\u00f1a had two solo shots and the Houston Astros beat the Cleveland Guardians 9-3 on Friday night. Altuve\u2019s eighth home run of the season came on the first pitch of the night from Guardians reliever Matt Festa. It landed in the first row of … Continue reading Jose Altuve, Jeremy Pe\u00f1a power the Astros past the Guardians, 9-3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1452],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-06-22 20:10:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516923,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516922\/revisions\/1516923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}