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Arizona Diamondbacks @ Houston Astros

2026-09-04 · Night game · Minute Maid Park · Att: 33482 · 73°F, Roof Closed · Wind 0 mph, None · 2:31

Houston Astros defeated Arizona Diamondbacks 3–1. Houston Astros opened the scoring in the 3rd — Yainer Diaz homers (11) on a line drive to left center field. The game's biggest swing came in the 6th: Nolan Arenado grounds into a double play, shortstop Jeremy Peña to second baseman Jose Altuve to first baseman Christian Walker. Lars Nootbaar out at 2nd. Nolan Arenado out at 1st — worth 22% in win probability.

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Line score

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
ARI	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
HOU	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	7

Arizona Diamondbacks — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Geraldo Perdomo SS	3	0	1	0	1	0
Corbin Carroll RF	4	0	0	0	0	2
Gabriel Moreno C	2	1	1	1	2	1
Ketel Marte 2B	3	0	1	0	1	1
Lars Nootbaar DH	3	0	0	0	1	1
Nolan Arenado 3B	3	0	0	0	1	1
Jordan Lawlar CF	2	0	0	0	0	2
Max Kepler LF	2	0	0	0	0	0
Tim Tawa 1B	3	0	0	0	1	3
Ryan Waldschmidt LF	3	0	0	0	0	2

Houston Astros — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	SO
Jeremy Pena SS	4	1	1	0	2
Yordan Alvarez DH	4	1	2	0	0
Isaac Paredes 3B	3	0	1	1	0
Nick Allen 2B	0	0	0	0	0
Jose Altuve 2B	3	0	0	1	1
Daulton Varsho CF	3	0	0	0	0
Christian Walker 1B	3	0	1	0	0
Taylor Trammell LF	3	0	0	0	1
Yainer Diaz C	3	1	2	1	0
Cam Smith RF	1	0	0	0	1
LaMonte Wade LF	2	0	0	0	1