ATLANTA — Astros left fielder Yordan Alvarez was taken to a hospital throughout Friday evening’s sport in opposition to Atlanta due to shortness of breath that was exacerbated by the Braves’ in-game fireworks, Houston supervisor Dusty Baker stated.
Alvarez departed the sport underneath his personal energy with two outs within the backside of the fifth inning. There was a pause within the motion when Braves rookie Vaughn Grissom fouled a ball off his foot and was being tended to by a coach.
That’s when Alvarez, who's batting .295 with 31 homers and 77 RBIs, made his break for the Houston dugout.
“He’s being analyzed by the medical doctors,” Baker stated after the Astros’ 6-2 loss. “They stated all his vitals are good. He’s feeling regular however he nonetheless has to see our physician. He was simply, he had shortness of breath, after which once they shot the fireworks off, the smoke sort of made it worse.
“I’m glad we bought him out once we did as a result of I appeared up and he was within the dugout and it was sort of a scary second as a result of it might be something, however they stated he’s doing positive in the meanwhile.”
Baker stated nobody within the Astros’ dugout knew Alvarez, an AL All-Star this yr and the 2019 Rookie of the 12 months, was in any misery.
“We didn’t see something,” Baker stated. “I simply appeared up within the dugout and he was there. After that we needed to take it into emergency motion to seek out out what’s flawed after which the emergency crew came visiting and took him to the hospital.”
Dropping Alvarez, who ranks first in AL on-base share and second in homers, slugging share, OPS and runs, for any size of time can be an enormous blow to Houston. The AL-leading Astros are 77-44 and primed for an additional deep postseason run.
They misplaced within the World Collection final yr to Atlanta.
“He’s an enormous, large a part of this workforce,” Baker stated. “He’s our large boy within the center, so we’re not excited about dropping him. We’re excited about getting him again and hopefully he’ll be all proper tomorrow.”
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