The Astros are one game into a four-game sweep of the Rangers that will get them within one game of the division lead. Or, at least, they avoided getting swept, taking the first game of the four game series in Arlington 5-3
It began auspiciously. Jose Altuve led off the game with a homer to center to give the Stros an early one run lead. However, the Rangers tied the game in the bottom of the first off Astros starter Ronel Blanco.
Blanco held the Rangers for the next two innings but in the fourth It looked like the Rangers might run away with the game with back-to-back homers by Josh Jung and Jonah Heim.