Overview
- Colt Keith hit three home runs and drove in six runs to power the Detroit Tigers to a 9-3 victory over the Houston Astros in Monday’s game.
- Detroit scratched scheduled starter Troy Melton with back tightness before the game and used an opener plan with Drew Anderson followed by Jacob Waguespack, Kyle Finnegan, Tyler Holton, Will Vest and Enmanuel De Jesus to cover the outing.
- Astros starter Kai-Wei Teng had a short but high-strikeout outing, allowing five runs, three homers, hitting two batters and recording nine strikeouts in roughly three innings.
- Hours after his breakout, Keith tripped on the grass making a throw and was scratched from the next day’s lineup with right wrist soreness; the team has not provided a timetable for his return.
- Keith’s three-homer night was striking because he had only one homer in his first 65 games this season, he is the youngest Tiger with a three-homer game since 1955, and the Tigers combined five homers with 18 team strikeouts in a rare statistical pairing while sitting 30-42 on the year.