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Major League Baseball
Texas 8, Houston 4
When: 3:05 PM ET, Sunday, September 27, 2020
Where: Globe Life Field, Arlington, Texas
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Marvin Hudson, 1B - Adam Hamari, 2B - Brian Knight, 3B - Mike Muchlinski
Attendance:

Rougned Odor hit a pair of home runs and the Texas Rangers parlayed a five-run fourth inning into an 8-4 victory over the Houston Astros and a win of the four-game series in Arlington, Texas.

Texas (22-38) trailed 3-1 before Odor smacked a three-run home run to right field off Astros right-hander Chase De Jong (0-1) with one out in the fourth. Odor drove home Joey Gallo and Nick Solak, who posted consecutive singles, with the 388-foot shot, his ninth home run of the season.

Odor clubbed his 10th homer an inning later off right-hander Nivaldo Rodriguez, who entered in relief of De Jong with the bases loaded and two outs in the fourth. Odor finished 2-for-3 with four RBIs, two runs and a walk.

Rodriguez allowed a two-run single to Leody Taveras as Texas capped the outburst in the fourth that featured 10 batters coming to the plate.

De Jong, making his second start for playoff-bound Houston (29-31), surrendered six runs on six hits and two walks with six strikeouts over 3 2/3 innings. The Astros, who finished 9-23 on the road, will open their American League wild-card series at Minnesota on Tuesday as the sixth seed.

Houston posted its first losing season since 2014 and joined the Milwaukee Brewers (29-31) in becoming the first teams in baseball history to make the postseason with records below .500.

By winning the final three games of the weekend set with Houston, Texas earned a split of the 10-game Lone Star Series. The Astros retained the Silver Boot with a plus-5 run differential.

The Astros claimed a 1-0 lead in the first against Rangers right-hander Jordan Lyles when second baseman Jose Altuve clubbed a 3-2 fastball to left-center for his fifth home run.

Texas' Sam Huff hit an RBI single in the second.

Houston reclaimed its one-run lead when Altuve scored on an Aledmys Diaz run-scoring grounder in the third.

Lyles allowed two runs on four hits and two walks over three innings. He struck out four.

Houston shortstop Carlos Correa extended the lead to 3-1 with his fifth home run, a leadoff shot off Rangers left-hander Wes Benjamin in the fourth. But the Rangers erupted in the bottom of that frame and cruised to victory.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Houston   Texas
Chase De Jong Player Jordan Lyles
Loss W/L No Decision
3.2 IP 3.0
6 Strikeouts 4
6 Hits 4
14.73 ERA 6.00
Hitting
Houston   Texas
Carlos Correa Player Rougned Odor
2 Hits 2
1 RBI 4
1 HR 2
5 TB 8
1.000 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Houston 8 3 17 .229 18 7 4 5 0 1
Texas 11 2 17 .333 18 11 7 5 3 0