Yordan Alvarez did it once more.
Down 2-1 within the sixth inning to the Seattle Mariners in Sport 2 of the ALDS Thursday, Astros left fielder Yordan Alvarez homered to place Houston in entrance.
Alvarez fouled off Mariners pitcher Luis Castillo’s first sinker of the at-bat earlier than promptly taking his second 371 ft to the other area.
Castillo had been pitching a gem, permitting one run, three hits, and placing out six by 5 and two-thirds innings earlier than Alvarez’s bomb to the Crawford Bins in Minute Maid Park’s left area.
“Luis Castillo pitched an amazing recreation, he’s an amazing pitcher,” Alvarez advised MLB Community’s Jon Morosi. “The pitching there was excellent, I knew I needed to be prepared for any pitch. In that case, it was a fastball, I went in that route and hit a house run.”
It might seem the Mariners caught on to Alvarez’s hard-hitting methods, issuing him an intentional stroll within the eighth inning — although Andres Munoz didn’t get a lot reprieve. Alex Bregman adopted with a single to plate Jose Pena and make it a 4-2 recreation.
Ryan Pressly shut down any hopes of a Mariners comeback with a scoreless ninth inning, securing the win and a 2-0 Astros lead within the best-of-five collection.
Alvarez’s go-ahead residence run could have given Mariners followers some deja vu after his Sport 1 heroics.
On Tuesday, the Astros had been down 7-5 within the backside of the ninth inning earlier than they bought two males on to provide Alvarez an at-bat. The Cuban slugger capitalized on his probability, sending a no-doubter 438 ft to proper area.
The ball left Alvarez’s bat at 116.7 miles per hour and despatched Minute Maid Park right into a frenzy, giving the Astros a walk-off victory.
Alvarez turns into the primary participant in MLB postseason historical past to have a number of profession go-ahead residence runs within the sixth inning or later whereas his group was trailing, and he achieved that feat in back-to-back video games with residence runs off of Robbie Ray and Luis Castillo.
He celebrated his newest residence run with a post-trot swing, a nod to his dad and mom, within the stands for a second straight recreation.
“I needed to have a good time with my dad and mom who had been sitting within the stands,” he stated. “I advised them I used to be going to attempt to hit yet one more residence run immediately.”
Having his mother and pop within the park has clearly been a boon: To date within the collection, Alvarez has gone 4 for 8 with a double, a single, two residence runs, and 6 runs batted by which quantities to 55% of the Astros’ runs this collection.
“For a lot of troublesome years after I needed to depart Cuba, I wasn’t capable of see my dad and mom,” he stated. “Now they are often right here. There have been many tears over time, now there’s a number of pleasure.”
The Astros will head to Seattle for recreation 3 Saturday with an opportunity to shut out the Mariners and head to their sixth straight ALCS.
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