Houston 8, Chi. Cubs 1
When: 2:05 PM ET, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Where: Minute Maid Park, Houston, Texas
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Victor Carapazza, 1B -
Greg Gibson, 2B -
Brian Knight, 3B -
Gerry Davis
Attendance:
28046
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Carlos Lee homered twice and Bud Norris turned in one of his best starts of the season to lead the Houston Astros to an 8-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday afternoon.
Hunter Pence added an RBI and Lance Berkman drew three walks and scored a run for the Astros, who have taken four of six from the Cubs in the last nine days.
Randy Wells (5-8) entered Wednesday’s contest riding a 14-inning scoreless streak and breezed through the first five frames, allowing one hit. But Berkman drew a walk leading off the sixth in front of Pence, who knotted the contest at 1-1 and ended Wells’ streak with an RBI double.
Lee came up after Pence and took a strike before turning on the 0-1 pitch and driving it over the wall in left to put Houston on top, 3-1. Lee added another two-run shot in the seventh - his 14th blast of the season - and the Astros piled on three more in the eighth to put the game away.
Norris (3-7) yielded an unearned run on four hits while walking three and striking out seven in six innings to pick up his first win since May 13. The right-hander came into Wednesday’s start having allowed at least four runs in each of his last three outings.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Chi. Cubs |
|
Houston |
|
Randy Wells
|
Player |
Bud Norris
|
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
5.2 |
IP |
6.0 |
|
4 |
Strikeouts |
7 |
|
5 |
Hits |
4 |
|
4.76 |
ERA |
0.00 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Chi. Cubs
|
7 |
0 |
7 |
.219 |
20 |
9 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
| Houston
|
13 |
2 |
23 |
.351 |
24 |
4 |
7 |
6 |
0 |
1 |
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