The Mariners are one game into their four-game series with the Angels at T-Mobile Park. They have one of the easiest remaining schedules in baseball. The Astros are done with the Blue Jays and will open a three-game series with the Atlanta Braves at Truist Park on Friday.

He became the fifth Astro to homer on his first at-bat and first since Mark Saccomanno in 2008. “It was kind of a floating feeling,” Cole said about his trip around the bases. “I didn’t really hear much of anything.

Cole made a leaping catch up against the left field wall in his first inning, and hit a two-run homer on the first pitch he saw in the third during the Houston Astros’ 11-3 win over the Atlanta Brave...