Trammell's Three-Run Blast Breaks It Open for Houston

Taylor Trammell hit a 388-foot home run to right that swung Houston's win probability from 75% to 94%, turning a tied game into a blowout. The Astros walked away with a 7-2 win over Toronto on August 5, with Trammell and Jose Altuve doing most of the damage.

Houston got on the board first in the fourth inning, when Yainer Diaz singled to left to score Altuve, and then Cam Smith's single to left turned into a two-run sequence when a throwing error by Toronto's left fielder allowed Trammell to score as well. It was a sloppy inning for the Blue Jays, and it looks like that defensive miscue set the tone for everything that followed. Toronto answered in the fifth — Myles Straw tripled to center to score Giménez, then scored himself on a Hayden Wesneski wild pitch to tie it at 2. The Blue Jays had life, and for a moment the game felt genuinely up for grabs.

Then the fifth inning swallowed Toronto whole. Altuve reached on an infield single to shortstop, Alvarez scored, and Walker moved to second. That made it 3-2 Houston. What came next was the play that ended the competitive portion of the evening: Trammell drove a 388-foot home run to right, scoring Walker and Altuve ahead of him. The win probability swung from 75% to 94% on that single swing — a 19-point lurch that effectively closed the book. Houston led 6-2, and the story of the night was that Trammell's three-run shot arrived at exactly the moment Toronto needed to hold the line. Wesneski finished with 6.0 innings pitched, allowing 4 hits, 2 earned runs, 2 walks, and 4 strikeouts — a serviceable outing that the offense made look better than it needed to be.

Altuve was relentless all night, going 3-for-4 with 2 RBI and 2 runs scored, adding a seventh-inning single to center that scored Walker and pushed the final to 7-2. Enyel De Los Santos handled the final two innings cleanly — 2.0 IP, 1 hit, no runs, no walks, 1 strikeout. On the Toronto side, Straw was the lone bright spot, going 2-for-3 with a triple, an RBI, and a run scored. The Blue Jays' pitching — Trey Yesavage and Braydon Fisher combined for 3.0 scoreless innings — appears to have been let down entirely by the offense, which managed just 2 runs and couldn't sustain the momentum from that brief fifth-inning rally. Houston's lineup was simply too deep and too opportunistic on this night.