HOUSTON — Tigers right-hander Reese Olson was in absolute control of this game going into the sixth inning Tuesday night.

Up 2-0, he was battering the right-handed heavy Astros lineup with change-ups, sliders and curveballs off well-placed sinkers. He’d allowed just three hits and was breezing along on just 67 pitches.

And in a blink, he was in the dugout and the Astros were up 3-2 and on their way to a second straight comeback win over the Tigers, 6-4 at Daikin Park.

Olson took a 19-inning scoreless streak into the sixth inning. But he walked Jose Altuve and then, with two outs, Isaac Paredes. That set the table for Christian Walker, whose two-run homer got the Astros back in the game Monday.

Walker, still hitting under .200, laced a double off the fencing in left-center. That made it a 2-1 game and ended Olson’s outing.

Will Vest, who hadn’t allowed a run in 11 innings, gave up a two-run single to Yainer Diaz, both runs on Olson’s ledger.

It was a rough night for Vest. Besides allowing the two inherited runners to score, he also gave up three of his own in the seventh on an RBI single by Yordan Alvarez and an RBI triple by Paredes, the former Tiger.

Diaz plated the sixth run with a single off reliever Chase Lee.

The Tigers started the game with a bang. Kerry Carpenter launched his seventh home run, a 398-footer to right-center. Carpenter thought he’d gotten nicked on the previous pitch, 1-2 breaking ball at his feet.

The Tigers didn’t see it on the video and didn’t challenge.

Carpenter stepped back in and slugged his homer.

The Tigers left two runners on in the first and stranded runners at second and third with one out in the fifth after Gleyber Torres delivered an RBI single.

The Tigers didn't score again until there were two outs in the ninth. Against closer Josh Hader, Carpenter doubled and Torres hit a bullet, two-run homer off the signage above the Crawford boxes in left.

Torres had three hits and raised his average to .292.

The bottom four hitters in the Tigers' lineup in this series are a combined 2 for 15 with 13 strikeouts and three walks.

The Tigers (18-12) hadn’t lost consecutive games, or a series, since April 15-16 in Milwaukee.

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