There was a decent chance that Joe Ryan and Hunter Brown, Saturday’s starters, would provide a pitcher’s duel. But Brandon Walter, making just his third-career start and Simeon Woods Richardson,

Left-hander Brandon Walter makes his third start for the Houston Astros who are going for a sweep of the Minnesota Twins before seven-game road trip to Sacramento and Anaheim. Simeon Woods Richardson pitches for Minnesota.

Joe Ryan fixed the team’s starting pitching problem, but the Astros answered with Hunter Brown in a pitchers’ duel decided in the ninth inning.