Moreno's Walk-Off Single Caps Arizona's Three-Run Comeback

Gabriel Moreno singled to center in the tenth inning to score Vargas and lift Arizona past Houston, 4-3. The Diamondbacks erased a three-run deficit without Isaac Paredes — who drove in all three Houston runs — getting another chance to add to his damage.

Houston looked in control early. Paredes did the heavy lifting in the third, singling to right to score two runs and push the Astros to a 2-0 lead. He came back in the fifth with an infield single that scored Peña and made it 3-1, giving him 3 RBI on just two hits. Arizona had chipped away with a Perdomo sacrifice fly in the fifth — Tawa scoring — but Paredes answered immediately. At that point, Houston was sitting on a two-run cushion with Brandon Pfaadt laboring through 6.1 innings, allowing 7 hits and 3 earned runs.

Then Arizona started climbing. Nootbaar doubled to right in the seventh, scoring Tawa again to make it 3-2. One inning later, Ketel Marte launched a 388-foot homer to right to tie the game at three. That swing was the turning point in every measurable sense — Houston's win probability dropped from 78% to 56% on a single pitch. What looked like a comfortable Astros win had suddenly become a coin flip, and the story of the night was shifting fast toward Arizona's lineup depth. Tawa scored twice, Nootbaar went 2-for-3 with an RBI, and Moreno quietly went 2-for-5 before delivering the decisive blow.

The bullpen picture matters here too. Enyel De Los Santos was sharp for Houston — 1.2 innings, no hits, two strikeouts — but the Astros couldn't hold the tie. Jonathan Loaisiga handled his inning cleanly for Arizona, striking out two, and the Diamondbacks pushed a run across in the tenth when Moreno's single to center brought home Vargas. Arizona's ability to manufacture a run in extra innings without a home run — just a base hit at the right moment — looks like a sign of a lineup that doesn't need to rely on one bat. Paredes was the best individual performer on the field, but Arizona got contributions from six different players in the box score. That kind of spread, especially in a comeback win, is hard to beat.