Allen hits go-ahead sacrifice fly, Houston bullpen allows just a run as Astros beat Giants 2-1

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nick Allen hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, Steven Okert led an Astros bullpen that allowed just one run and Houston beat the San Francisco Giants 2-1 on Wednesday.

Houston (62-60) won the series to finish 3-3 on its trip and now returns to Daikin Park for a nine-game homestand, all against AL West opponents.

Okert (6-1) picked up the win after tossing 1 1/3 hitless innings. Tatsuya Imai pitched three innings, allowing three hits and striking out three.

Josh Hader earned his 17th save with a perfect ninth. He is 17 for 17 in save situations this season with a 0.96 ERA.

Nelson Velázquez tied the game at 1 in the seventh with a sacrifice fly that scored Isaac Paredes.

Taylor Trammell then smacked his first triple of the year off the brick wall in right field before Allen sent him home with the go-ahead run off Keaton Winn (2-3).

Giants starter Adrian Houser worked six scoreless innings, fanning five and allowing two hits.

Victor Bericoto gave the Giants a 1-0 lead with an RBI single in the first inning. San Francisco finished with four hits.

Giants shortstop Willy Adames left the game in the seventh inning after aggravating a back ailment while turning a double play.

Giants: RHP Landen Roupp (7-11, 4.22 ERA) starts against the Rockies on Friday.

Astros: Yet to announce a starter for the series opener against the Mariners on Friday.

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Houston Astros' Nick Allen (20) is tagged out in a rundown by San Francisco Giants shortstop Osleivis Basabe (39) in front of Adrian Houser (12) during the sixth inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)

Houston Astros' Taylor Trammell (26) is congratulated by Christian Vázquez (2) after scoring on a sacrifice fly hit by Nelson Velazquez during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants in San Francisco, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)

Houston Astros' Nick Allen (20) hits an RBI sacrifice fly in front of San Francisco Giants catcher Drew Cavanaugh, left, during the eighth inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)

Houston Astros' Taylor Trammell (26) gestures to teammates after hitting a triple during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants in San Francisco, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 9, 2026--

Turing, the superintelligence accelerator that drives real economic progress from AI, today announced that Patrick McKinney has joined the company as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). McKinney will lead Turing’s global security strategy as the company scales its work with the world’s leading AI labs and enterprises across highly regulated industries.

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McKinney brings extensive experience building and scaling security programs at high-growth technology companies. Most recently, he served as vice president of security & IT at Invisible Technologies, where he was the company’s first dedicated security hire and built its security organization from the ground up to support some of the world’s largest companies. Earlier in his career, McKinney held security and compliance roles at Dropbox and Coinbase, where he was part of the teams that helped guide both companies through their public offerings.

“Patrick has built security organizations for some of the most demanding and fast-moving technology environments, and he understands that world-class security has to enable a business to move quickly, not stand in its way,” said Jonathan Siddharth, CEO and founder of Turing. “As Turing works with frontier labs and enterprises to build and deploy increasingly capable AI systems, Patrick will help ensure security remains foundational to how we operate and scale.”

“AI is fundamentally changing the security landscape. It gives security teams powerful new capabilities to monitor and respond to threats at scale, while giving adversaries access to capabilities they’ve never had before,” said McKinney. “Turing operates at the forefront of that shift, working with leading AI labs and enterprises across industries and around the world. As AI continues to advance, security has an important role to play in enabling its potential across industries.”

As CISO, McKinney will oversee security across Turing’s frontier AI and enterprise AI businesses. Turing works with leading AI labs and Fortune 500 companies across industries including financial services, life sciences, healthcare, retail and automotive, creating a broad range of security, compliance and data protection requirements.

About Turing

Turing’s mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Headquartered in San Francisco, Turing helps frontier AI labs improve model capabilities in software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and frontier STEM by providing evaluations, expert human data, and reinforcement learning environments. In software engineering, Turing is the category’s largest and longest-running research and data provider. Turing also helps Fortune 500 enterprises across financial services, life sciences, healthcare, retail, automotive, and CPG to build, deploy, and scale agentic AI systems. By operating on both sides, Turing closes the loop between frontier research and enterprise deployment. Learn more at www.turing.com.

Patrick McKinney, Chief Information Security Officer, Turing