A season-ending injury to Luis Garica places more pressure on Cristian Javier, and he...
needing Tommy John surgery and José Urquidy also going on the injured list.
The night didn’t quite begin on a promising note for Javier. Julio Rodríguez crushed Javier’s first pitch 106.4 mph off the bat to deep center field. Jake Meyers made a leaping catch near the fence on the ball that traveled 383 feet with an expected batting average of .850.He said he didn’t change anything after Rodriguez’s leadoff at-bat. The Astros staked him to an early lead on Yordan Alvarez’s three-run homer in the third inning.
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