Yordan Alvarez and Jeremy Pena drove in three runs apiece, and Chas McCormick went 3-for-4 with three runs scored for the Houston Astros, who avoided a sweep in Kansas City by beating the Royals 7-3 on Sunday.Houston’s Hunter Brown (4-1) pitched six innings, allowing an earned run on seven hits. He finished with nine strikeouts and one walk.Jonathan India reached three times, going 2-for-3 with a walk, a run scored and an RBI on a sacrifice fly. Salvador Perez went 2-for-4 for his third multi-hit game in his last four starts. Kansas City had 11 hits but stranded seven runners.Kris Bubic (2-2) gave up four runs on five hits and three walks over five innings. He struck out four.After losing 2-0 on Friday and Saturday, the Astros ended the series on an upswing by pounding out nine hits, including five for extra bases.McCormick started the Astros’ third with a leadoff single. After Pena lined out, Isaac Paredes walked, and Alvarez put Houston up with a three-run home run, his third of the season, that went 436 feet to center field.In the fifth, McCormick doubled to center to start the fifth and scored on Pena’s line drive single to left. An inning later, Pena’s two-out double to left off Chris Stratton plated Zach Dezenzo and McCormick.