Jose Abreu homered and drove in three runs, rookie J.P. France stayed around until the seventh inning and Houston’s tired bullpen held on as the Astros snapped a four-game losing streak with a 6-4 win over the Guardians on Saturday night.
CLEVELAND — As the fight-to-the-finish Guardians started mounting another rally and 35,000 fans sensed more late-inning magic, Astros manager Dusty Baker stayed positive.“My thought process was double play or something good or somebody pull a play or whatever,” Baker said. "If you think, ‘Here we go again,’ it’s going to go again.”
“That run in the ninth was huge," Baker said. "I was glad we stopped the bleeding and the losing streak and hopefully we can win the series.” France’s second straight solid outing — he went a season-high seven innings against the Los Angeles Angels in his previous start — allowed Baker to rest many of his relievers after using six on Friday.
The Astros placed Alvarez, who leads the majors with 55 RBIs, on the 10-day injured list with right oblique discomfort on Friday. Cleveland put the first two on in the ninth with a single and error, but Pressly struck out Ramírez, gave up a sacrifice fly and then whiffed Brennan.
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