Mookie Betts hit a leadoff dwelling run and rookie Emmet Sheehan went six sturdy innings because the Los Angeles Dodgers acquired the very best of the visiting Houston Astros 3-2 on Friday within the opener of a three-game sequence
Rookie Michael Busch had an RBI double for the Dodgers in a matchup between 2017 World Series individuals. The Astros received the title in seven video games that 12 months earlier than their championship got here underneath a cloud after a dishonest scandal was uncovered
James Outman had three hits and Sheehan (1-0) gave up two runs on three hits with 4 strikeouts and two walks en path to his first main league win. Los Angeles prolonged its profitable streak to a few video games and improved to 7-5 towards the Astros because the World Series defeat
Mauricio Dubon and Kyle Tucker hit back-to-back dwelling runs within the fourth inning for the Astros, who misplaced for the sixth time of their previous eight video games
Astros rookie right-hander J.P. France (2-3) gave up three runs on eight hits over six innings. He fanned 4 and walked two. France was making his ninth profession begin, and he has gone not less than six innings in every of the previous 5
Betts hit France’s third pitch of the sport over the wall in left subject for his 18th dwelling run of the season. It was additionally Betts’ forty third profession leadoff dwelling run and his major-league-leading seventh this season.
Betts did the injury once more within the second inning, when his sacrifice fly to heart subject scored Outman for a 2-0 benefit.
The Astros acquired even within the fourth inning when Dubon hit a house run to left subject, his fourth, and Tucker adopted two pitches later with a blast to proper, his tenth. The runs had been the primary allowed by Sheehan (1-0) after he threw six hitless innings towards the San Francisco Giants in his debut on June 16
The runs additionally had been the primary allowed by the Dodgers after a 24-inning scoreless streak that included consecutive shutout victories over the Los Angeles Angels
Right-hander Brusdar Graterol pitched the ninth inning for the Dodgers to earn his fourth save, matching his career-best complete from final season
–Field Level Media