For nine innings, this game was everything any baseball fan could ask for. Good pitching. Timely hitting. Solid defensive plays. Save a poor bunting performance from Raimel Tapia of the Colorado Rockies in a critical situation and the game was fairly textbook for both sides.
But the focus for the first nine innings for both Houston and Colorado was pitching. Starters Gerrit Cole and Tyler Anderson locked in a battle for supremacy with each rarely blinking. Anderson gave up a two-run home run to the second batter of the game for his only mistake.