Lucas Giolito may have pitched the best game of his career, going from a Michael Brantley double in the first to an Abraham Toro homer in the eighth without allowing a baserunner (yeah, I know he had the no-hitter last year, but that was against the Pirates and this was the Astros, and there’s a rather substantial difference). But he also did something even more amazing — in nine innings and 30 batters, Houston hit only one ball on the ground, a José Altuve bouncer to Yoán Moncada in the sixth.
Otherwise, Giolito held the team with the second-best OPS in MLB (.