Houston Astros ace hits multiple milestones in Friday’s win

The Houston Astros defeated the Oakland Athletics on Friday night by a score of 6-3 in Oakland. With the win, the Astros improved to 23-28 overall, and while the overall record isn’t great, they are only 3.5 games behind the slumping Seattle Mariners in the American League. the West.

Offensively, Yordan Alvarez, Jose Altuve and Jon Singleton each had multi-hit games and on the mound, Justin Verlander dominated as he has many times during his career.

The right-hander went 6.0 innings, allowing just one earned run on eight hits. He walked none and struck out nine to improve to 3-2 on the year with a 3.60 ERA.

Verlander also reached several historic milestones in performance, according to the @MLB account on “X:”

Justin Verlander collects his 260th W and ranks 10th on the all-time strikeouts list in @Astros win!

The 41-year-old is in the 19th year of his major league career (20 if you include the 2021 season he missed due to injury) with the Detroit Tigers, New York Mets York and the Astros. His 260 victories are currently the baseball record.

One of the best pitchers of the 2000s, Verlander is a nine-time All-Star, three-time Cy Young winner, two-time ERA champion and MVP winner. He is also a two-time World Series champion with the Astros (2017 and 2022).

The Astros and A’s will be in action again Saturday afternoon at 4:07 p.m. ET. Spencer Arrighetti (HOU) faces JP Sears (OAK).

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