Astros 6, Red Sox 3

 

The Sox lose a game to a team almost as bad as them. 

Young Connelly Early pitched four innings, giving up five runs on six hits, including one three-run homer. Reliever Ryan Watson gave up another three-run homer in the fifth. The Red Sox, to their credit, kept on playing and scored three comeback runs on Abreu and Story singles and a Contreras sac fly, but too little, too late.

The Red Sox fall to 13-20, but at .394 are still better than the Astros (13-21, .382), if only slightly. And the whole league is better than the Mets (11-22, .333).

The rubber game of this series is this afternoon. Ranger Suarez (2-2, 3.09) is pitching against Cody Bolton (0-1, 5.79). Baseball fever - catch it! /s