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With 16 K’s, Astros relievers tie club record
- Updated: May 25, 2016
HOUSTON — The way the Astros’ bullpen has been throwing lately, you knew Houston was well equipped to pitch deep into Tuesday’s game against the Orioles. The Astros rode 7 1/3 scoreless innings — and a franchise-tying 16 strikeouts — from their relief corps to beat the Orioles, 3-2, in 13 innings at Minute Maid Park.
Six relievers combined to hold the Orioles to five hits and no runs, while becoming the first set of relief pitchers to strike out 16 in a game for Houston since the franchise’s first month of existence — April 25, 1962, against the Cardinals. It was the most scoreless innings by an Astros bullpen since the six-pitch no-hitter at Yankee Stadium on June 11, 2003.
“The bullpen was incredible,” Astros manager A.J. Hinch said. “To get 15, 16 strikeouts from out of the ‘pen, each guy came in and did a job. We had a little bit of trouble there and guys pitched out of it. To a man, those guys came in and closed out innings with zeros when we really, …
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