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Behind Zack Greinke, Astros Seek Bounce-back Win Over A's 

Right-hander Zack Greinke will attempt to get the meeting Houston Astros back to their triumphant ways while broadening his predominance over the Oakland Athletics when the groups meet again Wednesday night. 

In a tight game befitting clubs that both made the end of the season games last season and entered this arrangement isolated by a half-game, the An's outlived the Astros 6-5 in the opener of the three-game set on Tuesday night. Oakland scored single runs in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings. 

Ramon Laureano was the legend for Oakland, helping rally the host group from an early deficiency with a couple of solo grand slams. He covered the rebound for the A's with a stroll off fielder's choice in the 10th inning that finished Houston's six-game series of wins. 

"We've seen this previously ... On different occasions," A's director Bob Melvin spouted of his club's fifth stroll off win of the youthful season. "We're down and we return and do our thing late. That is a very decent formula, particularly here at home." 

The success was the third in a row for the An's absurd, who started the season with a four-game range in Oakland. The Astros at that point won the groups' next gathering in Houston before the A's turned the tables and won the arrangement's last two games. 

Not at all like most A's, Laureano has fared well against Greinke (3-1, 4.18 ERA), going 6-for-11 with two pairs, a triple and a homer. 

He homered twice off the 37-year-old in Game 4 of a year ago's American League Division Series, a game the Astros won 11-6 to take out the A's from the postseason. 

Astros chief Dusty Baker conceded a short time later that he's seen Laureano's heroics way over and over again. 

"It seems like he generally hits a homer against us," Baker said. "He's cold in our reports coming in here, yet he warmed back facing us." 

Greinke has gone 10-3 with a 2.77 ERA in 22 customary season games, including 18 beginnings, against the An's in his profession. He's been extreme at Oakland, where he's molded a 5-2 record and 2.41 ERA in 14 games (11 beginnings). 

The veteran cushioned his details with six shutout innings on Opening Day at Oakland a month ago, permitting only three hits in a 8-1. 

Imprint Canha (0-for-15), Jed Lowrie (1-for-13) and Matt Olson (2-for-16) are among the A's who have battled in their professions against Greinke. 

The Houston pro is planned to be coordinated with A's correct hander Frankie Montas (5-2, 4.93 ERA) in a rematch of a year ago's season finisher duel. 

In his second vocation postseason start, Montas presented five sudden spikes in demand for seven hits in 3 2/3 innings in the season-finishing misfortune last October.  메이저사이트

He had the option to get a proportion of vengeance when he tossed six innings of one-run ball in a 7-3 win at Houston on April 10, giving Oakland a 2-1 arrangement win after the season-opening catastrophe at home. 

Montas has utilized the success as a springboard to a group best five successes in his eight beginnings. He's gone 3-0 the last multiple times he's gotten the ball, restricting Toronto, Tampa Bay and Minnesota to a sum of six runs in 17 1/3 innings. 

He's gone 5-3 with a 4.11 ERA in 10 vocation ordinary season games (eight beginnings) against the Astros. Kyle Tucker, who homered in Tuesday's arrangement opener, Carlos Correa and Michael Brantley all have dove deep against him. 

Correa and Brantley additionally homered off Montas in a year ago's season finisher game.