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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Houston 3, Washington 2
When: 2:05 PM ET, Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Where: Minute Maid Park, Houston, Texas
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Victor Carapazza, 1B - Marty Foster, 2B - Bill Welke, 3B - Jeff Nelson
Attendance: 29605

Pinch hitter Jason Michaels delivered an RBI single to center field in the bottom of the 11th inning, lifting the Houston Astros to a 3-2 win over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday at Minute Maid Park and giving the Astros consecutive wins for the first time in more than a month.

Houston had not won back-to-back games since June 17-18 against the Dodgers, but it took the last two games of the three-game series for its first series win at home since taking two of three from the Dodgers from May 23-25.

Michaels' single against Todd Coffey scored Humberto Quintero, who led off the inning with a single.

Astros second baseman Jose Altuve went 1-for-5 in his major league debut.

The Nationals have lost seven of 10.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Washington   Houston
Livan Hernandez Player Brett Myers
No Decision W/L No Decision
6.0 IP 7.0
3 Strikeouts 4
7 Hits 8
3.00 ERA 2.57
Hitting
Washington   Houston
Jayson Werth Player Clint Barmes
3 Hits 2
2 RBI 0
1 HR 0
8 TB 2
.600 Avg .400
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Washington 9 1 14 .220 15 8 2 2 1 0
Houston 12 0 15 .300 22 7 3 5 0 0