Mills said he had talked to Weiland

Houston manager Brad Mills knows the third inning was the game's turning point.

"It seemed like you could really nail it down to one inning and that was the third inning," Mills said. "They scored three runs with two outs and nobody on and we had runners on first and third and nobody out and couldn't score. That was kind of tough."

Mills said he had talked to Weiland (0-1) before the game about keeping the ball down and getting strikes. The manager said that there were several times when the ball was down but out of the zone.

"That caused his pitch count to go up and caused him to get behind in the count with some guys," Mills said. "That enabled them to get some better swings on balls as the count got deeper."