Boston Red Sox at Houston Astros

BOS 1 — HOU 8

Final — 2026-03-30

Game MVP: Lance McCullers Jr. — 7.0 IP, 9 K, 1 ER

J.A.

Game of the Day

4-4, 2 HR, 2 RBI, 1 BB

4-for-4 with 2 home runs and 2 RBI.

The only multi-homer performance in the majors that day.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
BOS	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	0
HOU	1	0	2	0	1	1	2	1	x	8	13	0

WP Lance McCullers Jr. (1-0)

LP Ranger Suarez (0-1)

Scoring Plays

Bot 1: Correa grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Altuve scored, Paredes out at second, Alvarez to third. (1-0)

Bot 3: Alvarez homered to right (394 feet), Altuve scored. (3-0)

Bot 5: Matthews homered to center (434 feet). (4-0)

Bot 6: Diaz hit sacrifice fly to center, Smith scored. (5-0)

Top 7: Abreu hit a ground rule double, Duran scored, Contreras to third. (5-1)

Bot 7: Altuve homered to left (383 feet). (6-1)

Bot 7: Walker doubled to center, Correa scored. (7-1)

Bot 8: Altuve homered to left (368 feet). (8-1)

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA	Decision
Ranger Suarez	4.1	7	4	4	1	3	2	76-44	8.31	L, 0-1
Johan Oviedo	3.2	6	4	4	1	3	2	72-47	9.82

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA	Decision
Lance McCullers Jr.	7.0	4	1	1	1	9	0	96-63	1.29	W, 1-0
Ryan Weiss	2.0	0	0	0	1	3	0	33-22	3.00

Venue: Daikin Park, Houston, Texas (23,532)

Umpires: Home Plate Umpire: Nate Tomlinson, First Base Umpire: Mark Wegner, Second Base Umpire: Bruce Dreckman, Third Base Umpire: Carlos Torres

Broadcast: NESN | SCHN