MLB: Houston 7, Texas 0

HOUSTON, June 30 (UPI) -- Jason Michaels hit a homer and drove in three runs Thursday in leading the Houston Astros to a 7-0 rout of Texas.

Wandy Rodriguez combined with three relievers on the shutout that ended Houston's longest home losing streak in 45 years. The Astros had lost their previous eight home games, the longest such streak since their club-record, 11-game skid in the Astrodome during the 1966 campaign.

Texas took the season series from Houston for the fifth straight year. The Rangers won four of the six meetings this season and is 14-4 against the Astros since the start of 2009.

With the game scoreless, Texas loaded the bases in the third without producing a run and Houston dominated the rest of the contest.

Carlos Lee put the Astros in front with a solo homer in the fourth and Houston added four runs in the fifth, one of them scoring on a double by Michaels.

Michaels tacked on a two-run homer in the seventh.

Rodriguez (6-4) allowed four hits and struck out four over seven innings.

Matt Harrison (6-7) suffered the loss, giving up five runs on seven hits in six innings.