HOUSTON -- Disbelief soon turned to jubilation for Astros center fielder Jake Marisnick, who swung the emotional pendulum of hitting into an improbable triple play in the third inning Wednesday night before making a sensational catch to start a double play a couple of innings later.

Marisnick’s wall grab pumped up Astros starter Gerrit Cole and ignited the crowd at Minute Maid Park, serving as the final crescendo of hope before the White Sox erupted for six runs in the sixth inning, capped by a Charlie Tilson grand slam, to snap a nine-game losing streak against the Astros, 9-4, at Minute Maid Park.

“At that point, to keep runs off the board there, I was fired up,” Marisnick said. “Gerrit was throwing the ball well and to keep those runs off the board was good.”

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While the White Sox were hitting four home runs -- and a near home run, thwarted by Marisnick’s catch at the wall to rob Yolmer Sanchez in the fifth -- the Astros were hitting the ball on the ground against Ivan Nova. They grounded into four double plays, in addition to the triple play.

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“That’s a lot of outs and they come fast,” Astros manager AJ Hinch said. “Obviously, not a great night. It ends rallies. The craziest one is when you have Jake up and he hits a bullet down the line and [third baseman Yoan Moncada] is standing there. That should have been a sign of bad things to come, from that perspective.”

The Astros grounded into double plays to end the first and second innings, but a triple play was the last thing on anybody’s mind when Marisnick came to the plate in the third with runners at first and second and no outs. After all, Marisnick has speed to burn.

“I didn’t think that would ever happen,” he said. “He was positioned in a good spot and I hit it right to him. It was a quick turn and something I thought I would never hit into.”

It took a perfect storm for the White Sox to turn a triple play and hit a grand slam in the same game for the fourth time in MLB since 1979. Marisnick hit a smash to Moncada, who was standing pretty much on top of third base. Moncada touched the base to force out Tony Kemp, threw to second for a forceout of Robinson Chirinos and the relay throw nipped the speedy Marisnick at first.

“You don’t expect it on a ball hit good down the line,” Marisnick said. “They were in the right spot at the right time.”

In the fifth, with the Astros leading 3-2, Sanchez hit a fly ball to left-center field that was caught by Marisnick as he crashed into the wall. He bounced off the wall and threw a strike to strong-armed shortstop Carlos Correa, who whirled and threw out Tim Anderson scrambling back to first base on a strike to Tyler White.

“I had a chance to kind of peek and see where the wall was,” Marisnick said. “I thought I had enough room and was able to get it. I got it right to ‘Los, and he’s the best in the league and putting throws on the money. I got it to him and he was able to turn the double play.”