Our Clients:

Field Level Media - Professional sports content solutions | FLM

May 17, 2024 11:06 pm

Multi-run homers fuel Astros’ victory over Brewers

astros

Jake Meyers and Jeremy Pena slugged home runs before four relievers preserved Hunter Brown’s first win of the season as the Houston Astros topped the visiting Milwaukee Brewers 5-4 on Friday.

The Astros extended their winning streak to six games and earned their eighth victory in nine games. They did so with a pair of multi-run homers and a stout bullpen performance capped by closer Josh Hader, who retired the side in order in the ninth for his sixth save of the season.

Meyers drilled his fourth home run with two outs in the second inning, driving home Jon Singleton with a 379-foot blast that supplied the Astros a 2-1 lead. Meyers’ homer came in response to the solo blast Jake Bauers slugged to right field off Brown in the top of the second.

Brown surrendered that one-run advantage in the fourth when he issued walks to Bauers and Sal Frelick before Joey Ortiz recorded his second extra-base hit in as many plate appearances.

Ortiz drilled a three-run homer out to right field, smacking his fifth long ball of the season as Bauers did earlier, giving Milwaukee a 4-2 lead.

Brown (1-4) had just one win in his previous 14 appearances dating to last season. On Friday, he allowed four runs on four hits and three walks with five strikeouts over five innings.

Pena delivered the fifth-inning blast that enabled Brown to notch the victory. The shortstop followed singles by Victor Caratini and Jose Altuve with a three-run shot into the left field seats, his fifth homer flipping the scoreboard.

Meyers and Pena went deep off Brewers starter Freddy Peralta (3-2), who surrendered five runs on eight hits and one walk with six strikeouts over five innings.

Houston relievers Tayler Scott, Rafael Montero, Bryan Abreu and Hader preserved the advantage. Scott and Montero worked around leadoff singles in the sixth and seventh, respectively, and Montero gave up another single before getting a called third strike on William Contreras to end the seventh.

Abreu yielded a pair of two-out baserunners in the eighth but closed that frame with a called third strike against Frelick.

–Field Level Media

You may also like

juan soto
Jul 8, 2025 10:48 pm

Mets top Orioles in back-and-forth, 10-inning affair

Juan Soto’s third hit of the game was an RBI single in the 10th inning as the New York Mets rallied to defeat the host Baltimore Orioles 7-6 to open…

yankees mariners
Jul 8, 2025 10:46 pm

Yankees’ bats erupt after rain delay in 10-3 rout of Mariners

Giancarlo Stanton hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning, Aaron Judge added his 34th homer an inning later and the New York Yankees roughed up Logan Gilbert after a…

blue jays
Jul 8, 2025 10:26 pm

Blue Jays strike early, top White Sox to win 10th straight

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had two hits and two RBIs, Davis Schneider homered and Chris Bassitt pitched six sharp innings as the Toronto Blue Jays pushed their winning streak to 10…

More Baseball News

juan soto
Jul 8, 2025 10:48 pm

Mets top Orioles in back-and-forth, 10-inning affair

Juan Soto’s third hit of the game was an RBI single in the 10th inning as the New York Mets rallied to defeat the host Baltimore Orioles 7-6 to open…

yankees mariners
Jul 8, 2025 10:46 pm

Yankees’ bats erupt after rain delay in 10-3 rout of Mariners

blue jays
Jul 8, 2025 10:26 pm

Blue Jays strike early, top White Sox to win 10th straight

royals
Jul 8, 2025 10:24 pm

Nick Loftin drives in final three Royals’ runs in walk-off of Pirates

ryan jeffers
Jul 8, 2025 10:20 pm

Twins slug 3 homers in eighth, power past Cubs

Read all
fb-post
advertisment
title-icon

Upcoming events

See all odds
[gs-fb-comments]