HOUSTON -- Knowing that they probably weren't going to be able knock around White Sox starter Chris Sale on Saturday at Minute Maid Park, the Astros resorted to some rare small ball in the third inning and wound up taking a two-run lead they couldn't hold.
The Astros scratched and clawed against Sale, including a pair of bunts in the third, but fell short on a couple of rallies in the eighth and ninth innings and dropped a 7-6 decision to the White Sox, snapping their four-game winning streak.
"You feel good at that time, but we still lost the game, but it didn't matter," first baseman Marwin Gonzalez said.