Jose Altuve, Alex Bregman and Carlos Correa recorded three-hit games as the Houston Astros roughed up Los Angeles Angels ace right-hander Shohei Ohtani in their 10-5 home victory on Friday.
The Astros saddled Ohtani (9-2), the American League Most Valuable Player front-runner, with his first loss since May 28, a span of 13 starts and eight consecutive winning decisions. They erased a two-run deficit by plating three runs in the third inning before chasing Ohtani with a six-run fourth that featured 11 batters coming to the plate.
Bregman, Yordan Alvarez and Correa produced run-scoring, two-out hits in the third to push the Astros to a 3-2 lead. When Ohtani retook the mound in the fourth, he had a one-run advantage that vanished in the span of four batters, with Altuve plating Aledmys Diaz with an RBI single.