HOUSTON — Hunter Brown fanned nine in seven scoreless innings and Mauricio Dubón hit a two-run homer for the Houston Astros, who mounted a great attack in the sixth inning to beat the Detroit Tigers 4-0 on Friday. .
Brown (3-5) allowed five hits, Bryan Abreu scored a zero in the eighth inning and Josh Hader struck out one in the ninth to complete the shutout.
The Astros only had one hit: José Altuve’s double. Then, the same Venezuelan sent a line drive to left field at the beginning of the sixth inning. He scored on a triple by Alex Bregman, who extended his hitting streak to 15 games, the best streak of his career.
A sacrifice fly by Cuban Yordan Álvarez drove in Bregman to make the score 2-0. Cuban Yainer Díaz hit a single with two out before Dubón’s home run off Tarik Skubal (8-2) that ended up in the left field seats to make the game 4-0.
Skubal allowed six hits and tied his season-high with four runs in 6 1/3 innings.
Colt Keith had two hits for the Tigers, who lost for the fourth time in four games.
For the Tigers, Colombian Gio Urshela 3-1.
For the Astros, Venezuelan José Altuve went 2-for-3 with one run scored. Puerto Rican Víctor Caratini 3-1. Honduran Mauricio Dubón was 3-1 with one run scored and two RBIs. Cuban Yordan Álvarez went 0-3 with an RBI.
