Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Houston 6, San Francisco 0
When: 8:05 PM ET, Friday, August 19, 2011
Where: Minute Maid Park, Houston, Texas
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Cory Blaser, 1B - Adrian Johnson, 2B - Fieldin Culbreth, 3B - Lance Barksdale
Attendance: 26259

Wandy Rodriguez dominated through eight innings and added two RBIs at the plate as the host Houston Astros blanked the stumbling San Francisco Giants 6-0 on Friday.

J.B. Shuck added a two-run double and Brian Bogusevic hit a solo homer for the Astros, who have won three straight games for the first time since a four-game streak from May 30-June 2.

The Giants have dropped 12 of 18 games in August and remain 2 ½ games behind the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League West.

Rodriguez (9-9) struck out eight and yielded five hits in his longest outing since May 17. The lefthander was removed after 110 pitches, robbing him of a chance for his first shutout since 2009.

Ryan Vogelsong (10-3) suffered his first road loss since 2005. The former Japanese League righthander ran into trouble in the third, walking the leadoff man and allowing a double to Carlos Corporan (3-for-3) in front of Shuck’s hit.

Houston took advantage of an error to score three unearned runs in the sixth, capped by Rodriguez’s two-run single to right.

San Francisco squandered its only scoring opportunity when Bogusevic threw Aubrey Huff out at home to end the second inning.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
San Francisco   Houston
Ryan Vogelsong Player Wandy Rodriguez
Loss W/L Win
7.0 IP 8.0
3 Strikeouts 8
4 Hits 5
2.57 ERA 0.00
Hitting
San Francisco   Houston
Mark DeRosaPlayer Carlos Corporan
1 Hits 3
0 RBI 1
0 HR 0
2 TB 4
.500 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
San Francisco 5 0 6 .167 8 10 0 2 0 2
Houston 7 1 12 .233 9 5 6 4 0 0