Astros Take Quick Lead vs. Nationals in Game 4: Live Updates


Astros Take Quick Lead vs. Nationals in Game 4: Live Updates

A much cleaner effort from Corbin. After needing 26 pitches in the first inning, he fired only 9 to get through the bottom of the Astros lineup.

Urquidy is attacking the Nationals with a lot of 95-mile per hour fastballs and sliders. He has used just 24 pitches to get six outs. Even though it is a bullpen game for the Astros, Manager A.J. Hinch said this before the game: “I would love for Urquidy to go five, six innings, whatever he can do. And maybe we don’t have to use as many pitchers.”

The Astros’ plan against Corbin was clear from the start: Swing early in the count. They did so successfully in the first inning. Jose Altuve, Michael Brantley, Alex Bregman and Yuli Gurriel all notched singles within the first three pitches of their at-bats. The result: two runs, driven in by Bregman and Gurriel. Robinson Chirinos could have made it worse for the Nationals, but he grounded into an inning-ending double play started by third baseman Anthony Rendon.

Urquidy made quick work of the Nationals in the bottom half on 11 pitches. Rendon singled, but Urquidy got two pop-outs and a lineout.


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