Corbin Martin receives a lot of support in the first major victory as the Astros sweep the Rangers

By David BarronHouston Chronicle

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7:16 pm CDT, Sunday, May 12, 2019

Corbin Martin scored nine goals and allowed three hits to score 5-1 and 3 in his league debut in front of a home crowd on Sunday, and the Astros accompanied their new teammate with another offensive blast to two. figures in a rocket of 15-5 Mother's Day Rangers at Minute Maid Park.

Martin, former high school Cypress Ranch High School and former Texas A & M student, called to replace Collin McHugh in the starting rotation, posted a strong performance of 80 shots with five strikeouts and a sixth on a faulty fault.

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He passed the radar at 97.7 mph and hit Rangers player Danny Santana with a curved ball on his last shot in sixth row, removing his cap while he was standing under the applause of A complete crowd of 41,027 spectators including his mother and grandmother. .

While Martin became the fourth thrower of the Astros to score nine goals in his debut in the big league, the Astros' offensive was a day-long hit with five hits from George Springer, who conceded two goals and became the first player in the history of the franchise with five hits and five points the same game.

Alex Bregman also dominated twice with five RBIs and Carlos Correa and Tony Kemp had three shots each.

It was the Astros' second double-digit exit in less than 24 hours and set the record for their first-ever Rangers four-game home sweep of 33-11. Houston had 10 circuits in the series.

Martin had two strikeouts in first base and scoring Hunter Pence for the second out in the second run before allowing his first hit, a double by third baseman Asdrubal Cabrera. Ronald Guzman flew to the warning lane in the left field to end the inning.

After giving his first league match, a shot in the Crawford Box, by Rangers receiver Isiah Kiner-Falefa in the third, Martin got Shin Soo-Choo on a fastball and Danny Santana on a change of direction, the two swaying, to end the third.

He retired seven times in a row until the fifth inning, with two more battles, before a doubling by Logan Forsythe. Forsythe went to third place on a wild pitch with Kiner-Falefa at the plate, but the Rangers catcher made a third shot on a 3-2 curved ball to end the inning.

Martin walked to Choo to start the sixth and pulled out Santana before being replaced by McHugh, who allowed two points, one of which was charged to Martin, and managed to get out of a bottling loaded bases at seventh. Framber Valdez shot a scoreless eighth, and Chris Devenski conceded a two-run run to Elvis Andrus in the ninth.

The assault of the 18 tubes of the Astros began with the 29^th Leadoff Homer, his fifth of the season. From there, however, Houston has strengthened its lead with another barrage of timely strikes after scoring 10 of 11 points scored with two outs on Saturday.

Tony Kemp tripled on a rebound against the center-court wall in the second and Springer followed with an on-line attack on Cabrera's lead left to double it. Bregman then pushed a slider from Adrian Sampson (0-3) (Rangers) on the facade over the Crawford Boxes for a 4-0 lead.

The Astros added two more two-point outs in the fourth quarter behind Sampson and relieved Ariel Jurado. Kemp opened the scoring with an inside kick, Springer followed with a base kick, and two after, with Jurado, both goals were scored when Correa's base shot spun under the field player's glove Central Santana for an error of two goals.

Another four races out of two came in fifth place in Jurado. Yuli Gurriel made a mistake throwing third baseman Cabrera, surviving a collision with Rangers first baseman Guzman, who jumped into a futile pursuit of the pitch. Gurriel took second place in the overturn and, two outs later, scored Kemp's third hit.

Springer followed with his fourth shot, and Bregman's third shot, a 421-foot shot from the center-left facade, raised the score to 10-1.

The sixth of five points of the Astros was limited by a two-point defense and 420 feet left center by Springer and RBI doubles by Gurriel and Aledmys Diaz.

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