There's no sugar-coating it: 2020 has really sucked for a lot of reasons. The Houston Texans' 2020 season has not been the exception.
The latest chapter in the 2020 season saw blazing-fast wide receiver Will Fuller be suspended 6 games by the NFL for violating the league's drug policy. Fuller announced the suspension on his Instagram account earlier today.
This is especially painful for a couple of obvious reasons. The first being that Fuller has been healthy this season. Last week versus the Lions, Fuller went for 171 yards and 2 TDs. Now the blazing fast wide receiver is done for the year and possible done as a Texan, as he is a free agent at the end of the season.
The second reason the timing could not have been worse is that the Texans just released backup Kenny Stills last Friday. Deshaun Watson will have his work cut out for him with one less quality target on the field to close out the season.
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Oswald Peraza hit a two-run single in the ninth inning to help the Los Angeles Angels snap a three-game losing skid by beating the Houston Astros 4-1 on Saturday night.
Peraza entered the game as a defensive replacement in the seventh inning and hit a bases-loaded fly ball to deep right field that eluded the outstretched glove of Cam Smith. It was the fourth straight hit off Astros closer Bryan Abreu (3-4), who had not allowed a run in his previous 12 appearances.
The Angels third run of the ninth inning scored when Mike Trout walked with the bases loaded.
Kyle Hendricks allowed one run while scattering seven hits over six innings. He held the Astros to 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position, the one hit coming on Jesús Sánchez’s third-inning infield single that scored Jeremy Peña.
Reid Detmers worked around a leadoff walk to keep the Astros scoreless in the seventh, and José Fermin (3-2) retired the side in order in the eighth before Kenley Jansen worked a scoreless ninth to earn his 24th save.
Houston’s Spencer Arrighetti struck out a season-high eight batters over 6 1/3 innings. The only hit he allowed was Zach Neto’s third-inning solo home run.
Yordan Alvarez had two hits for the Astros, who remained three games ahead of Seattle for first place in the AL West.
Key moment
Peraza’s two-run single to deep right field that broke a 1-1 tie in the ninth.
Key Stat
Opponents were 5 for 44 against Abreu in August before he allowed four straight hits in the ninth.
Up next
Astros RHP Hunter Brown (10-6, 2.37 ERA) faces RHP José Soriano (9-9, 3.85) when the series continues Sunday.