Houston 3, Washington 2
When: 2:05 PM ET, Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Where: Minute Maid Park, Houston, Texas
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Victor Carapazza, 1B -
Marty Foster, 2B -
Bill Welke, 3B -
Jeff Nelson
Attendance:
29605
By SportsDirect Inc.
Pinch hitter Jason Michaels delivered an RBI single to center field in the bottom of the 11th inning, lifting the Houston Astros to a 3-2 win over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday at Minute Maid Park and giving the Astros consecutive wins for the first time in more than a month.
Houston had not won back-to-back games since June 17-18 against the Dodgers, but it took the last two games of the three-game series for its first series win at home since taking two of three from the Dodgers from May 23-25.
Michaels' single against Todd Coffey scored Humberto Quintero, who led off the inning with a single.
Astros second baseman Jose Altuve went 1-for-5 in his major league debut.
The Nationals have lost seven of 10.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Washington |
|
Houston |
|
Livan Hernandez |
Player |
Brett Myers
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
|
6.0 |
IP |
7.0 |
|
3 |
Strikeouts |
4 |
|
7 |
Hits |
8 |
|
3.00 |
ERA |
2.57 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Washington
|
9 |
1 |
14 |
.220 |
15 |
8 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
| Houston
|
12 |
0 |
15 |
.300 |
22 |
7 |
3 |
5 |
0 |
0 |