Mexican José Urquidy gets his first win of the season with the Houston Astros

Alex Bregman put the Astros in front with a two-run single in the fifth inning and the Mexican Jose Urquidy spaced four hits in five innings in a 4-1 win by Houston Astros against the Los Angeles Angels Sunday in the MLB

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José Urquidy gets his first win of the season with the Houston Astros (AP)

Chas McCormick had an RBI single and rookie shortstop Jeremy Peña had three hits as the defending AL champions went three for four in the opening series at Angel Stadium.

Bregman began life without teammate Carlos Correa getting six hits, including two homers, and driving in six runs in Houston’s first four gameshighlighting the RBI single of two runs, with two out, against reliever Austin Warren.

Jack Mayfield homered against his former team for the Angels, but they managed to score more than two runs just once in the four-game series, and that was in a blowout loss on Friday.

Urquidy (1-0) resumed his great finish to 2021 with five strong innings, walking one and striking out two. The loser was José Suárez (0-1).

For the Astros, the Dominicans Jeremy Peña, 5-3 with a run scored and José Siri, 3-1 with a run scored; Puerto Rican Martín Maldonado, 2-0 with two runs scored and Cuban Aldemys Días 4-0.

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