HOUSTON – Career night? You could say that.
Colt Keith hit three homers and drove in six runs Monday night as the Tigers beat the Astros, 9-3, in the opener of a three-game series at Daikin Park.
At 24 years and 305 days old, Keith is the second-youngest player in Tigers history with a three-homer game, older than only Mr. Tiger himself, Al Kaline, who did it on April 17, 1955, at the age of 20 years and 119 days.
Keith, who drove in the game’s first run when he was hit by a Kai-Wei Teng pitch with the bases loaded in the first inning, took Teng deep for a two-run homer in the third. Keith connected off Jayden Murray for another two-run shot in the seventh and capped his night with an opposite-field solo homer to left off Bryan Abreu in the ninth.