Houston 6, San Francisco 0
When: 8:05 PM ET, Friday, August 19, 2011
Where: Minute Maid Park, Houston, Texas
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Cory Blaser, 1B -
Adrian Johnson, 2B -
Fieldin Culbreth, 3B -
Lance Barksdale
Attendance:
26259
By SportsDirect Inc.
Wandy Rodriguez dominated through eight innings and added two RBIs at the plate as the host Houston Astros blanked the stumbling San Francisco Giants 6-0 on Friday.
J.B. Shuck added a two-run double and Brian Bogusevic hit a solo homer for the Astros, who have won three straight games for the first time since a four-game streak from May 30-June 2.
The Giants have dropped 12 of 18 games in August and remain 2 ½ games behind the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League West.
Rodriguez (9-9) struck out eight and yielded five hits in his longest outing since May 17. The lefthander was removed after 110 pitches, robbing him of a chance for his first shutout since 2009.
Ryan Vogelsong (10-3) suffered his first road loss since 2005. The former Japanese League righthander ran into trouble in the third, walking the leadoff man and allowing a double to Carlos Corporan (3-for-3) in front of Shuck’s hit.
Houston took advantage of an error to score three unearned runs in the sixth, capped by Rodriguez’s two-run single to right.
San Francisco squandered its only scoring opportunity when Bogusevic threw Aubrey Huff out at home to end the second inning.
Top Game Performances
Hitting
| San Francisco |
|
Houston |
|
Mark DeRosa | Player |
Carlos Corporan |
|
1 |
Hits |
3 |
|
0 |
RBI |
1 |
|
0 |
HR |
0 |
|
2 |
TB |
4 |
|
.500 |
Avg |
1.000 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| San Francisco
|
5 |
0 |
6 |
.167 |
8 |
10 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
| Houston
|
7 |
1 |
12 |
.233 |
9 |
5 |
6 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
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