HOUSTON -- Carlos Correa launched a three-run home run with two outs in the fifth inning off Boston ace Garrett Crochet to break a tie and send the Astros to their fifth win in a row, 6-4, and a three-game sweep of the Red Sox on Wednesday afternoon at Daikin Park.
After losing their first two games of the season, scoring a total of two runs, the Astros have scored 43 runs during their winning streak, averaging 8.6 runs per game. It’s the first time they’ve scored at least six runs in five consecutive games since Aug. 26-30, 2023.
Now they’ll pack their bats for their first road trip of the season, a 10-game swing out west beginning in Sacramento on Friday against the A’s.
Crochet, who finished second in the AL Cy Young race last year, struck out the side in the fourth before Jose Altuve’s one-out single in the fifth got Houston going. Yordan Alvarez was hit in the side by a pitch, tossing his bat in frustration.
One out later, Correa turned on a sweeper and sent it a Statcast-estimated 402 feet over the left-field wall for his first homer of the season.
That made a winner out of Astros starter Mike Burrows, who gave up two earned runs, five hits, three walks and struck out six batters in five innings in his second start with the Astros. He gave up one run in the first and second innings and struck out the side in the third inning. Burrows got 14 whiffs on 41 swings.
Willson Contreras’ RBI single in the first gave Boston its first lead of the series, but the Astros scored twice in the bottom of the inning on an RBI double by Isaac Paredes and a line drive single by Christian Walker, who has seven RBIs in seven games.
Christian Vázquez hit his first homer of the season in the seventh off Danny Coulombe.