Final: Red Sox 3, Astros 2

HOUSTON --- Returning to the site where their season ended last October, the Red Sox, shaken by some pre-game trades, managed to hold off the Houston Astros, 3-2, for their second straight win, enabling them to get back to .500.

Jarren Duran knocked in all three Red Sox runs -- one on a double and the other two with a fifth-inning homer.

Nathan Eovaldi pitched into the seventh, allowing only two unearned runs, the result of back-to-back errors by Christian Arroyo and Xander Bogaerts. John Schreiber pitched out of trouble in the eighth when he caught Jeremy Pena looking with runners on second and third.

WHO: Red Sox (51-52)vs. Houston Astros (67-36)
WHEN: 8:10 p.m.
WHERE: Minute Maid Park
SEASON SERIES TO DATE: BOS 2-1
STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Nathan Eovaldi (4-3, 4.33) vs. RHP Luis Garcia (8-6, 3.61)
TV/RADIO: ESPN; WEEI-FM 93.7 

LINEUPS

RED SOX

Duran CF
Bogaerts SS
Verdugo LF
Martinez DH
Arroyo 3B
Cordero RF
Dalbec 1B
Sanchez 2B
Plawecki C

ASTROS

Altuve 2B
Gurriel 1B
Alvarez DH
Diaz 3B
Tucker RF
Pena SS
McCormick LF
Meyers CF
Maldonado C