Astros beat the Brewers 9-2 on Saturday at Daikin Park, making it their seventh win in nine games and snapping Milwaukee's four-game winning streak.
The Astros are on a roll and showing no signs of slowing down.
Brewers got on the board first when William Contreras hit a two-out RBI double in the first inning, but the Astros responded quickly in the second.
Cam Smith scored on a single by Jake Meyers to tie it, and Jeremy Peña followed with a two-run homer to put the Astros up 3-1.
Brewers cut it to 3-2 in the fifth on an RBI single by Jackson Chourio, but the Astros responded immediately. Earlier in the season they would have let that momentum slip away. This version of the Astros is different.
Taylor Trammell hit an infield RBI single to make it 4-2, and Isaac Paredes doubled to left field to score two more and put the Astros up 6-2.
Christian Walker put the game away with a three-run homer in the eighth to make it 9-2. Walker has been on an absolute tear lately and is really pulling through for the Astros. Peña, who hasn't been back long but is already coming in clutch, went 3 for 4 on the night.
Peter Lambert improved to 4-4 with the win and went five innings, five hits, two runs, and three walks. It wasn't his cleanest outing, but he gave the Astros length and kept them in the game.
For the final game of the three-game series, Tatsuya Imai will take the mound for the first time since the historic no-hitter. Imai is up against one of the best pitchers in MLB right now, Jacob Misiorowski (5-2, 1.83 ERA), and Imai needs to use that momentum he has going.
The Astros are playing their best baseball of the season. Seven wins in nine games is exactly the kind of stretch this team needed. With the offense clicking and the pitching holding up, this team is starting to look dangerous.
