{"id":435241,"date":"2023-05-10T06:09:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T10:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435241"},"modified":"2023-07-24T08:19:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:19:20","slug":"valdez-outpitches-ohtani-for-1st-mound-loss-as-astros-win-3-1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/valdez-outpitches-ohtani-for-1st-mound-loss-as-astros-win-3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Valdez outpitches Ohtani for 1st mound loss as Astros win 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles Angels 3-1 in a hard-fought game, which saw Shohei Ohtani succumb to his first mound loss for the season on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Back in the win column. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QkGzxZXhkk\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QkGzxZXhkk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Houston Astros (@astros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/astros\/status\/1656146028989493249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nFramber Valdez was the star of the show as he countered Ohtani in a brilliant fashion, racking up 12 strikeout in 8 innings of three-hit ball.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani surpassed Babe Ruth&#8217;s record of career mound strikeout, but that would certainly not compensate for his lacklustre performance, which saw him give up 6 hits in 7 innings and also allowing 5 straight Astros&#8217; to reach base in a three-run fifth.<\/p>\n<p>He finished the game with 7 strikeouts, but allowed three runs in three straight games for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Yordan Alvarez had an RBI to help Astros, who ended their 3-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Zach Neto hit his first homer for the Angels, who succumbed to their 3rd defeat in the last 4 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles Angels 3-1 in a hard-fought game, which saw Shohei Ohtani succumb to his first mound loss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":435242,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16729,17073,17254],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[18539,19252],"acf":{"announce":"The Houston asset was at the peak of his game as he led his team to victory","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435241"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435241"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}