Bregman snapped a 3-3 tie when he sailed a curveball from reliever Burch Smith a Statcast-projected 397 toes over the left-field wall for his twenty first homer of the season. He had barely gotten to the dugout when Diaz crushed a sweeper and launched it 455 toes to left for his sixteenth homer. The ball got here off the bat at 111.4 mph, which is tied for the hardest-hit ball of Diaz’s profession.
The Astros reached 70 wins (70-60) and maintained a 4 1/2-game lead over the second-place Mariners within the American League West race forward of a three-game collection on the Phillies that begins Monday.
The back-to-back homers made a winner out of Héctor Neris, a key member of Houston’s bullpen the earlier two seasons who re-signed with the membership just a few days in the past. He made his first look for the Astros since returning and retired all 4 batters he confronted to choose up the win.
Ramón Urias, who hit a three-run homer off Astros starter Yusei Kikuchi to tie the sport within the fifth inning, was Neris’ last out within the seventh. He hit a fly ball to deep left discipline that Mauricio Dubón caught after working 130 toes simply earlier than he crashed full-speed into the padded wall.
Dubón was shaken up and on the bottom for a number of minutes earlier than strolling off the sphere below his personal energy. He was faraway from the sport within the eighth inning for pinch-hitter Jake Meyers, who lifted a sac fly to proper discipline to make it 6-3.
