Overview
- Lambert, which proved effective Sunday, worked 5 2/3 innings, threw 90 pitches with 60 strikes, allowed three hits and one walk, and struck out six batters.
- Christian Walker and Isaac Paredes supplied the only offense with solo home runs that produced the two runs that decided the game.
- Left-handers Steven Okert and Bryan King bridged to closer Josh Hader, and the trio completed a four‑hit combined shutout with Hader recording the save.
- Tampa Bay squandered multiple scoring chances, going 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position, even though starter Mason Englert set career highs in innings and strikeouts.
- Lambert’s outing lowered his ERA to 3.26 and improved him to 7-5, and his emergence after stops in Colorado, Japan and Triple-A gives the injury-hit Astros a needed rotation option as they enter the All‑Star break two games under .500.