HOUSTON (SportsRadio 610)- A night after beating the Seattle Mariners with a 10th inning walk-off home run, Yuli Gurriel struck again, this time with a walk-off double in the Astros 6-5 win in 10 innings Saturday night at Minute Maid Park.
Michael Brantley started the Astros 10th inning with a single, the Astros first hit since the fourth inning, and after he advanced to second on a wild pitch, Gurriel brought him home when he smacked Roenis Elias' 2-0 changeup past a diving Mallex Smith in centerfield, improving the Astros to 52-32 on the season.
Seattle struck first when Tim Beckham followed Corey Seager's 2-out walk by launching a 2-1 Justin Verlander slider over the Crawford Boxes for his 12th home run of the season, but the Astros bounced back and batted around in their half of the inning, scoring five runs. The Mariners got one of those runs back when Domingo Santana's groundout scored Dee Gordon from third, and in the fifth, Santana struck again and sent Verlander's 1-1 fastball over the rightfield wall to being Seattle within a run.
Verlander allowed four runs on five hits in five innings. He struck out five and walked a season-high four, but did not factor in the decision because with two out in the seventh, Daniel Vogelbach tied the game with his 20th home run of the season off Ryan Pressly. Collin McHugh and Anthony Bass traded zeroes in the eighth, while Roberto Osuna and Elias did the same in the ninth. Chris Devenski worked around a 2-out single in the Mariners' half of the 10th, earning him his second win of 2019.
George Springer was the only Astros with two hits on the night. He narrowly missed a walk-off homer in the ninth.
Vogelbach had two hits for the Mariners, who drop to 37-50.
The Astros will go for the series sweep Sunday when they send Gerrit Cole to the mound against Marco Gonzales.
