SB Nation Houston - Keppinger Leads Astros Past Giants, 6-3https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/46691/houston-fave.png2010-06-23T19:07:49-05:00http://houston.sbnation.com/rss/stream/12973182010-06-23T19:07:49-05:002010-06-23T19:07:49-05:00In Progress: San Francisco Giants @ Houston Astros
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<p>Houston, TX (Sports Network) - Jeff Keppinger finished 2-for-4 with a three- run double as Houston topped San Francisco, 6-3, in the middle test of a three-game series from Minute Maid Park.</p>
<p>Carlos Lee and Chris Johnson both collected a pair of hits and drove in a run for the Astros, who halted a five-game skid.</p>
<p>Brett Myers (5-5) allowed six hits and three runs -- one earned -- over seven innings. The veteran right-hander fanned four, walked three and helped his cause with two hits and an RBI.</p>
<p>Matt Lindstrom retired the final three batters in the contest to notch his 16th save.</p>
<p>Aubrey Huff, Andres Torres and Juan Uribe knocked in a run each for the Giants, who had won two in a row.</p>
<p>Barry Zito (7-4) was tagged for seven hits and five runs over just four full frames.</p>
<p>Houston got on the board in the first as Lance Berkman stroked a ground-rule double to left ahead of Lee's RBI single.</p>
<p>The Astros came back with three more in the second. Two walks and a single from Myers loaded the bases with two outs before Keppinger unloaded a bases- clearing double. Keppinger, though, ended the inning when he was thrown out trying to stretch the hit into a triple.</p>
<p>It was 5-0 in the fourth when Johnson reached first on a third-strike wild pitch from Zito and later scored on a Myers base hit.</p>
<p>San Francisco finally responded with two in the fifth on an RBI triple from Torres and a fielder's choice from Huff, but that was offset by Johnson's run- scoring double in the sixth for a 6-2 Houston edge.</p>
<p>The Giants threatened in the eighth, putting runners on first and second with one out against Brandon Lyon, but a pop out and strike out quelled the rally.</p>
<p>Lindstrom sent down the visitors in order in the ninth to cap the victory.</p>
<p>With his outing, Myers set a new Astros club record for consecutive six- inning-or-more starts from the beginning of the season with 16 in a row...Mike Hampton previously held the mark with 15 in a row from the start of the 1998 campaign...It was Houston's first win over San Francisco this season after seven straight losses, and the win snapped the Astros' nine-game losing string dating back to last August...Prior to the game, Houston placed shortstop Tommy Manzella on the 15-day disabled list and recalled infielder Oswaldo Navarro from Triple-A Round Rock.</p>
https://houston.sbnation.com/2010/6/23/2316871/in-progress-san-francisco-giants-houston-astrosTom Martin