If you can’t ride anymore, maybe you shouldn’t get back on the horse.
After surrendering a three run lead last night, Astros manager Dusty Baker put closer Ryan Pressly back on the horse tonight in a scoreless game. The Nats bucked him off yet again, greeting him with a go-ahead homer in the ninth by the leadoff hitter, Keibert Ruiz.
The Astros managed only four hits against Nats starter Mackenzie Gore. But in the bottom of the ninth the Astros actually scored a run. Kyle Tucker led off with a double against Hunter Harvey. Then two outs later pinch hitter Yainier Diaz singled home Tucker to tie the game, but only to prolong the Astros’ misery.