Houston Astros at Minnesota Twins

· Major League Baseball

Houston Astros

3-4, 1-0 Away

Final
5 - 2

Minnesota Twins

2-5, 0-1 Home

Walker, Peña homer and Rodgers drives in 3 as Astros spoil Twins' home opener 5-2

Hunter Brown (2-0) gave up two runs in the first and shut down the Twins the rest of the way, allowing five hits and no walks with eight strikeouts in six innings. The 26-year-old righty retired 15 of the last 16 batters he faced.

Bryan King, Bryan Abreu and Josh Hader pitched scoreless innings in relief. Hader earned his third save.

Twins starter Joe Ryan (0-2) allowed five runs on five hits and struck out six over five innings.

Minnesota took a 2-0 lead in the first inning of its home opener. Matt Wallner led off with drive to the warning track that got stuck under the padding on the wall in right-center. He reached third base on the play, then scored on Carlos Correa’s groundout. Byron Buxton followed with an infield single. He stole second and scored on Trevor Larnach’s line-drive single to left-center.

The Astros got those runs back when Walker and Peña started the second with back-to-back homers.

Rodgers put the Astros on top for good with a two-run single in the fourth and drove in Victor Caratini with a double in the sixth to make it 5-2.

Key moment With runners on first and second and one out in the fourth, a Ryan balk moved both runners into scoring position. The Twins brought their infield in, and Rodgers chopped a single just past a diving Correa at shortstop, scoring both on a ball that could have been an inning-ending double play.

Key stat Jose Altuve struck out five times, the first five-strikeout game in his 15-year MLB career.

Up next RHP Bailey Ober (0-1, 27.00) of the Twins will face Houston RHP Spencer Arrighetti (1-0, 1.50) on Saturday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	France fouled out to first.
	9th Inning	Larnach struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Buxton fouled out to catcher.
	9th Inning	Hader relieved Abreu
	9th Inning	Dubón in left field.
	9th Inning	Meyers in center field.

Statistics

HOU		MIN
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
2	Hit By Pitch	0
0	Ground Balls	0
12	Strikeouts	11
5	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	5
0	Stolen Bases	2
0	Walks	0
0	Catcher Interference	0
5	Runs	2
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
35	At Bats	32
2	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
9	Runners Left On Base	6
0	Triples	1
0	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	0
0	Fly Balls	0
1	Caught Stealing	0
146	Pitches	127
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
18	Total Bases	7
37	Plate Appearances	32
324.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
5	Extra Base Hits	1
5.0	Runs Created	0.4
.257	Batting Average	.156
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.514	Slugging Percentage	.219
.229	Secondary Average	.125
.297	On Base Percentage	.156
.812	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.375
0.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.0
5.0	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	0.4
41.0	Batter Rating	17.5
17.5	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.95	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.97
.257	Isolated Power	.063
0.00	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.00
.000	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.000
-.029	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.031
10.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.2
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
86.8	MLB Rating	66.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0