Regardless of Sunday’s loss (SEA 6, HOU 4), the Houston Astros went to Seattle and took care of enterprise towards the Mariners this weekend. They gained two of three and moved right into a digital tie atop the AL West. The 52-47 (.5253) Astros are proportion factors forward of the 53-48 (.5248) Mariners after being 10 video games again as lately as June 18.
For Houston, the spotlight of Sunday’s sport was the towering Yordan Alvarez hitting for his first profession cycle. He singled off Bryan Woo within the first inning, homered off Woo within the fourth, tripled off Tayler Saucedo within the sixth, and doubled off Gregory Santos within the eighth. Alvarez went 4 for 4 and drove in two runs within the sport.
Listed here are Alvarez’s 4 hits, which raised his season batting line to a stout .301/.385/.545:
It needs to be famous Julio Rodríguez exited the sport after crashing into the wall on the Alvarez triple. He stayed down on the sector for a couple of minutes grabbing at his proper ankle earlier than ultimately strolling off the sector underneath his personal energy, albeit with a limp. The Mariners say X-rays have been adverse and Rodríguez is at present day-to-day, pending extra checks.
Alvarez’s cycle is the tenth in Astros’ franchise historical past and the primary since Jose Altuve did it in Boston towards the Crimson Sox on Aug. 28 of final season. Additionally it is solely the second cycle in T-Cellular Park historical past. Miguel Tejeda, then with the Oakland Athletics, hit for the cycle at what was then often known as Safeco Discipline on Sept. 29, 2001.
Alvarez’s cycle is the second in baseball this season: Texas Rangers rookie Wyatt Langford did the honors towards the Baltimore Orioles on June 30. There have been at the very least 4 cycles in every of the final six 162-game seasons. We’re at two in 2024.
The Astros and Mariners have one final head-to-head sequence remaining. They will play three video games at Minute Maid Park Sept. 23-25. That’s the second-to-last sequence of 2024 and it may very well be a vital one.
