Rookie Carlos Correa homered and his RBI single in the 13th inning gave theHouston Astros a 3-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night.
Colby Rasmus walked with one out in the 13th and advanced to third on a single by Jose Altuve off Matt Andriese (3-3), who was called up from Triple-A Durham on Wednesday. Correa’s grounder to right field with two outs in the inning scored Rasmus to give Houston the victory.
It was the second straight extra-inning win for the Astros who beat the Rays 3-2 on Tuesday night on a homer by Marwin Gonzalez in the 10th.
Josh Fields (4-1) got the last two outs of the 13th for the win.
Neither team got a hit in the 10th and 11th innings. They both got one in the 12th, but were unable to do anything more.
The Astros tied it 2-2 on a single by Evan Gattis off All-Star closer Brad Boxberger with one out in the ninth inning.
Correa launched his two-out solo homer to the seats in left field to make it 1-0 in the first.
The Rays had trouble stringing hits together against Dallas Keuchel until the seventh. Logan Forsythe singled to start the inning and scored on Tim Beckham’s triple to center field with one out to tie it at 1-all. Fans booed loudly when he scored, still upset about a play before his single when they thought a fan interfered with Luis Valbuena’s chance to catch his foul ball.
James Loney’s one-out sacrifice fly to right field sent Beckham dashing home. The throw was offline but he didn’t realize it and he leapt over a diving Hank Conger on the way to the plate to put the Rays on top.
Rookie Nathan Karns allowed six hits and one run with eight strikeouts in six innings. It was the 18th start where he allowed two or fewer runs, which ties a franchise rookie record set by Rolando Arrojo in 1998.
Keuchel yielded seven hits and two runs with five strikeouts in 7-plus innings.
Lowrie singled after Correa’s homer, but the Astros didn’t get more than one hit in an inning until the ninth.
Via KristieRiekenAP