HOUSTON -- Hunter Goodman hit a solo home run and Chase Dollander dominated out of the bullpen as the Colorado Rockies beat the Houston Astros, 3-2, on Thursday night at Daikin Park.
Dollander came on in relief of opener Juan Mejia with two outs in the first and followed with 5 1/3 scoreless innings. Dollander struck out nine and yielded one hit – a double by Carlos Correa with no outs in the sixth. His nine strikeouts were the most by a Rockies reliever since Bruce Ruffin also had nine against the Astros in 1993, Colorado’s inaugural season.
Goodman hit his home run in the fourth to tie the game. It was his third home run of the three-game series after hitting two solo homers on Tuesday night. Tyler Freeman had an RBI single in the fifth off Christian Roa to put the Rockies ahead 3-2.
The Astros’ lone threat against Dollander came in the sixth as they put runners on second and third following Correa’s double, but Dollander induced a groundout by Christian Walker before striking out Joey Loperfido and Cam Smith to end the inning.
The Astros threatened again in the seventh, loading the bases with two outs, but Jaden Hill got Correa to line out to first to escape the jam.