Field Level Media
09 Apr 2026, 04:10 GMT+10
(Photo credit: Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images)
Hunter Goodman homered, Ezequiel Tovar, Troy Johnston and Edouard Julien had two hits apiece, and the Colorado Rockies beat the Houston Astros 9-1 in Denver on Wednesday.
Michael Lorenzen bounced back from his last start to get his first win with Colorado. Lorenzen (1-1) allowed one run on seven hits in 5 2/3 innings to help the Rockies sweep the three-game series from Houston at home for the first time since 2012.
Right-hander Zach Agnos tossed 3 1/3 innings of relief to earn his first save for Colorado, which has won four in a row.
Christian Walker had two hits for the Astros, who lost outfielder Jake Meyers to an injury in the second inning. Houston has dropped its last four games.
The Rockies jumped ahead in the first on Tyler Freeman's RBI single, and the Astros tied it in the second on Brice Matthews' two-out single. Matthews entered the game for Meyers, who appeared to sustain an injury to his abdomen on a check swing.
Matthews took over the at-bat with a 1-2 count and delivered a single to left.
Colorado batted around against AJ Blubaugh in the bottom of the second. Johnston led off with a double, moved to third on Brenton Doyle's single and Kyle Karros walked to load the bases.
Julien drove in two with a single, Mickey Moniak hit a sacrifice fly and Julien scored on a wild pitch. Tovar capped the rally with the first of his two doubles to make it 6-1.
Blubaugh (1-2) allowed five runs on four hits and walked three in his one inning of work.
Houston loaded the bases with two outs in the sixth inning, chasing Lorenzen, but Agnos got Christian Vasquez to ground out to end the threat.
Goodman hit a solo homer in the fourth off of Enyel De Los Santos, and Colorado added to the lead in the sixth.
Reliever Christian Roa hit two batters around a walk to Moniak to load the bases, and TJ Rumfield hit a sacrifice fly.
Johnston capped the scoring with a run-scoring single in the eighth inning.
--Field Level Media
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