Hunter Brown goes six scoreless to get his league-leading eighth win.
The Rays outscored the Astros by 21 runs in this four-game series, but that’s not how we score baseball. The Astros lost games one and three by 10 and 13 runs, respectively, but won games two and four by scores of 2-1 and 1-0, giving the Astros a split for the series.
In today’s 1-0 win, the Astros scored an unearned run in the first inning with the help of a Christian Walker RBI. The rest of the game was a spectacle of pitching mastery by Rays starter Taj Bradley and Houston’s All-Star-bound Hunter Brown.
Brown went six innings, allowing only one hit but four walks while whiffing five. The 2025 equivalent of Lidge, Dotel, Wagner, Brian King, Bryan Abreu, and Josh Hader, preserved the shutout, temporarily putting the Astros in a tie for first in the AL West pending the outcome of the Mariners’ games, ongoing as this is written.
This was Brown’s league-leading eighth win.
Jacob Melton had his first Major League hit today and was 1-3.
How about a first career hit for Melton! #BuiltForThis pic.twitter.com/PauAULNHX7
— Houston Astros (@astros) June 1, 2025