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DETROIT — Isaac Paredes, who hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning, put the surging Astros ahead with an RBI single in the 10th inning.
First baseman Christian Walker then put the game away with a Statcast-projected 394-foot, three-run homer off Tigers closer Kenley Jansen. Walker’s 19th jack of the season sent Houston to a 7-5 win on Sunday afternoon at Comerica Park.
The Astros belted three homers in scoring seven straight runs until Spencer Torkelson’s two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th.
Astros closer Josh Hader pulled off a tightrope act after he walked the bases loaded with two outs in the bottom of the ninth and dangerous All-Star slugger Riley Greene in position to make it a walk-off win. However, Hader got him to go down swinging to end the threat.
Houston trailed, 3-0, through six innings.
The Astros are now 22-13 since May 20. And there’s no hotter team in the Majors.
Raynel Delgado, starting at second base with Jose Altuve getting a scheduled day off, belted a two-run homer with two out in the seventh inning to cut the deficit to one run. Delgado’s first career homer went a projected 409 feet, traveling at 99.1 mph. And it scored Jake Meyers, who reached on a throwing error by third baseman Kevin McGonigle.
Reliever Tyler Holton gave up the homer after replacing Detroit starter Jack Flaherty, who logged five scoreless innings of two-hit ball in his return from the IL. Flaherty gave up a single and walked two in the fourth, but got Jake Meyers to go down swinging for the third out.
Paredes tied it at 3 by leading off the eighth against reliever Kyle Finnegan with a 402-foot solo shot to left for his 11th homer of the season.
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