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Yordan's historic go-ahead HR gives Astros 2-0 lead (MLB.com)

HOUSTON -- We've reached the point in Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez's young career that he's getting the kind of respect -- or is it fear or terror?

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Another Big Blast From Alvarez Gives Astros a Commanding Lead (The New York Times)

For the second straight game, a Yordan Alvarez home run turned a late deficit into a lead as this division series heads to Seattle with Houston cruising.

If needed, the teams would also play Game 4 in Seattle on Sunday, and then they would return to Houston for Game 5 on Monday. Neris helped the Astros escape the inning unscathed with a groundout. Castillo ended his day with seven strikeouts in seven innings and three earned runs from the two homers. Pressly walked Adam Frazier to start the inning, and then got J.P. But he quickly settled down again in the fifth inning, retiring three straight batters with back-to-back strikeouts and a flyout. He tried to get the out at home but made an errant throw to his catcher Martín Maldonado, giving up a run. He was aided by Kyle Tucker, who hit a solo home run to right field in the second inning. The Astros held on to that positivity for Game 2 and again counted on Alvarez, who went deep again Thursday. The error prompted a visit to the mound from the Astros pitching coach, Josh Miller, and Maldonado. “He’s a big boy,” Baker said of Alvarez after the game. “What games like that do, it excites the fans, it excites us,” Baker said. They channeled that feeling on Thursday, defeating the Mariners again, this time, 4-2, to take a commanding two-games-to-none hold over the series.

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Astros-Mariners ALDS: Three takeaways from Game 2, as Yordan ... (USA TODAY)

For the second time in as many games, an Yordan Alvarez home run singlehandedly flipped the fortunes of the Astros and Mariners in he ALDS.

Their peerless reliever, Andrés Muñoz, got got yet again by Alex Bregman, yielding an RBI single in the eighth inning after giving up a two-run homer to him in Game 1. Thursday, he had two hits and scored twice, including a daring dash home on Bregman’s hard-hit RBI single. The Astros never trailed again and moved within a game of their sixth consecutive American League Championship Series appearance with a 4-2 Game 2 victory over the Mariners. Now, their hopes hinge on rookie right-hander George Kirby, fighting a 2-0 deficit and wondering if Castillo can possibly come back from a 104-pitch outing and start Game 5 on three days’ rest. That blast came off Mariners lefty Robbie Ray, who was making an ill-advised relief appearance and grooved a center-cut pitch to the Astros slugger. He threw him virtually the same pitch, a good two inches off the plate.

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Mariners drop Game 2 of ALDS to Yordan Alvarez, Astros (The Seattle Times)

Yordan Alvarez hit another game-winning home run against the Mariners, this time in the sixth inning against Luis Castillo.

With runners on second and third, Carlos Santana hit a slow bouncer in between the mound and the third-base line. Santana, who expected to take second on the error, got caught in a run down. His outing ended when Santana doubled into the right-center gap, putting runners on second and third. The Mariners were 1-for-6 with runners in scoring position and stranded nine base runners. The ball got past catcher Martin Maldonado, allowing Suarez to score. Unfortunately, Yordan put a swing on a ball that is a ball and took it out of the park. “Against any batter, I always go with the same mindset, ‘If you’re good, I’m good too,'” he said through interpreter Freddy Llanos. But the ball dropped in between them. “Whenever you’ve got two guys running straight at each other with a ball in the middle, I’m not happy that ball dropped but I’m happy no type of injury happened. But this pitch was about an inch closer to the plate than the previous one, and that’s all Alvarez needed. “We’re going to come back Saturday with some vengeance and we’ll be ready to go,” said catcher Cal Raleigh. With Julio Rodriguez playing a little deeper than usual, not wanting to allow any extra-base hit with a one-run lead, Pena lofted a pop fly to shallow center field.

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ALDS: Yordan Alvarez homers again as Astros top Mariners (Los Angeles Times)

Yordan Alvarez launched a go-ahead, two-run homer in the sixth inning that lifted the Houston Astros over the Mariners 4-2 for a 2-0 lead in the ALDS.

Suarez walked with one out in the fourth and Mitch Haniger doubled. Crawford doubled with two outs in the third. Alvarez grabbed a sharp liner hit by Eugenio Suarez to end the seventh. Bryan Abreu got the first two outs of the seventh before Rafael Montero came in and threw 1 1/3 scoreless innings. Ryan Pressly walked the leadoff batter in the ninth before J.P. But with two outs, Jeremy Peña singled on a blooper that fell in between second baseman Adam Frazier and center fielder Julio Rodriguez.

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Alvarez homers again as Astros top Mariners, lead ALDS 2-0 (Sportsnet.ca)

Yordan Alvarez and his mighty bat did it yet again, launching a go-ahead, two-run homer in the sixth inning off Seattle ace Luis Castillo that lifted the ...

Neris took over and retired Cal Raleigh on a groundout to escape the jam. Houston’s Lance McCullers Jr., who started just eight games this season after missing the first four months of the year with a forearm strain, will oppose rookie George Kirby in Game 3 in Seattle Saturday. Alvarez grabbed a sharp liner hit by Eugenio Suarez to end the seventh. Bryan Abreu got the first two outs of the seventh before Rafael Montero came in and threw 1 1/3 scoreless innings. Ryan Pressly walked the leadoff batter in the ninth before J.P. Houston starter Framber Valdez had a solid start, allowing four hits and two runs in 5 2/3 innings. Because I know what it’s going to be like when our crowd gets going on Saturday.” The Mariners intentionally walked him and Alex Bregman made them pay, adding some insurance when he singled to make it 4-2. The lefty pointed to them as he reached the plate before reenacting the powerful swing that has the Astros one win away from their sixth straight AL Championship Series. He likes to be in the big moment. But with two outs, Jeremy Peña singled on a blooper that fell in between second baseman Adam Frazier and center fielder Julio Rodríguez. “I would say intelligent,” he said in Spanish through a translator.

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Jeff Luhnow's Next Act: Soccer (Sports Illustrated)

Nearly all involved in the Astros' cheating scandal have apologized and been welcomed back by MLB. But not Jeff Luhnow. Now running lower-level soccer teams in ...

He expects both teams to rise to the first division—Leganés was there as recently as 2020—though he declines to share a time line. When Leganés answers, in the 68th minute, Luhnow allows himself to jab the mayor in the ribs, in celebration. He has to find a new way to win, in a new sport that he admits he doesn’t fully understand. In some ways, he faces a more formidable challenge than the one he took on in Houston. “That’s part of the challenge that excites me,” he says. But most of the people who stuck around came to believe in the strategy. Manfred wrote that he found no evidence Luhnow was aware of the trash-can plot or had ordered Codebreaker—but that he “failed to take any adequate steps” to ensure his club followed the rules. Luhnow took the 30th-ranked baseball team and the 30th-ranked farm system, and he began an unpopular tear-down-and-rebuild process. This kind of argument—preposterous to those inside the game, logical to Luhnow—has defined his career. Luhnow is a hands-on owner, obsessing over everything from roster construction to player development to logo design, hoping to bring the kind of change to his second sport that he brought to his first. From Luhnow’s perspective, he was an outsider who understood how to run a baseball team better than most of the people running baseball teams. The owner of the opposing team, Deportivo Alavés, sits to his left, the mayor of Leganés to his right.

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Yuli Gurriel entra a la historia de los Houston Astros en la ... (ESPN Deportes)

El primera base de los Astros Yuli Gurriel conectó tres imparables en cuatro turnos al bate en el Juego 1 de la Serie Divisional contra los Mariners para ...

[Alex Bregman](https://espndeportes.espn.com/beisbol/mlb/jugador/_/id/34886/alex-bregman). "No podemos regalar nada contra los buenos equipos que llegan a playoffs". Fue su sexto cuadrangular en postemporada, incluyendo cuatro el año pasado y otro en el 2020. "Díaz es uno de los mejores jugadores de alta velocidad. "He sido bendecido de jugar para un equipo como este, en el que cada año la meta son los playoffs", dijo Gurriel. Sus siete cuadrangulares en playoffs son la sexta mayor cantidad de la organización. Gurriel fue uno de los peloteros más importantes del campeonato del 2017, con dos jonrones en la Serie Mundial. "Siempre hay una motivación extra en playoffs", comentó Gurriel. "Los aficionados te motivan un poco más; tu equipo te motiva más. [Seattle Mariners](/beisbol/mlb/equipo/_/nombre/sea/seattle-mariners) con vista en el enfrentamiento contra el abridor [Luis Castillo](https://espndeportes.espn.com/beisbol/mlb/jugador/_/id/35124/luis-castillo). [Carlos Correa](https://espndeportes.espn.com/beisbol/mlb/jugador/_/id/32653/carlos-correa) (16), José Altuve (15) y [George Springer](https://espndeportes.espn.com/beisbol/mlb/jugador/_/id/32078/george-springer) (15). [Houston Astros](/beisbol/mlb/equipo/_/nombre/hou/houston-astros) [Yuli Gurriel](https://espndeportes.espn.com/beisbol/mlb/jugador/_/id/36006/yuli-gurriel) conectó tres imparables en cuatro turnos al bate en el Juego 1 de la Serie Divisional contra los Mariners para convertirse en el sexto jugador de la franquicia con más imparables en la historia de la postemporada.

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Jeff Luhnow still insists he didn't know of Astros' cheating (Houston Chronicle)

Former Astros general manage Jeff Luhnow, who was fired after Houston's sign-stealing scheme came to light, is happy running a couple soccer teams these ...

Hinch apologized for not doing more to stop the scheme and has been the manager of the Detroit Tigers the past two seasons. [has bought two professional soccer teams](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/astros/article/Ex-Astros-GM-Jeff-Luhnow-owner-Cancun-FC-soccer-17233391.php) — Cancún FC in Mexico's second division and Leganés in Spain's second division. [uncovered details of the team's sign-stealing scheme](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/astros/article/How-the-Astros-cheating-scandal-played-out-14972308.php) during their 2017 World Series championship season.

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Yordan Alvarez again 'comes up big,' hits historic go-ahead blast to ... (ESPN)

HOUSTON -- No starting pitcher in baseball throws a sinker like Luis Castillo's. The ball starts on one side of the plate and ends up on the other, ...

On the next pitch, cleanup hitter [Alex Bregman](https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/34886/alex-bregman) laced a single into right to score Peña. When I go up on the mound, I go up there to compete." With the bases loaded in the top of the sixth and the game primed to be broken open, Astros manager Dusty Baker pulled Valdez, the quality-start king, with the bases loaded. [Eugenio Suarez](https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/32367/eugenio-suarez) that might have been out of his reach in past seasons, when he was primarily a designated hitter. When you're throwing balls 3, 4 inches off the plate and he hits 'em like that, he's in the zone, and he's a super talented player, and he's made us pay here the last couple days." "I just kind of try to go in there with a plan of attack and just go out there, try to visualize everything that might happen there and ... Seattle, in the postseason for the first time in two decades, hoped to return to T-Mobile Park for Game 3 on Saturday with a series split. "I came with the same plan of just getting him out and he was able to make contact with that ball. Instead, the inevitability that is Alvarez arrived in the sixth. "I just try to disconnect from everything when I go up there to the plate," Alvarez said. The only problem: [Yordan Alvarez](https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/36018/yordan-alvarez), the beyond-talented [Houston Astros](/mlb/team/_/name/hou/houston-astros) slugger, stood at the plate ready to prove the pitch's fallibility. [Luis Castillo](https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/35124/luis-castillo)'s.

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MLB playoffs: Yordan Alvarez comes up huge again as Astros push ... (Yahoo Sports)

It's a one-game day in the MLB postseason after rain postponed Yankees-Guardians Game 2.

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This time, blooper works against Mariners in crucial spot vs. Astros (The Seattle Times)

HOUSTON — His back turned to the infield, his head tilted skyward, Adam Frazier sprinted into the outfield attempting to make the play on a Jeremy Pena pop ...

“It’s just a tough play,” Rodriguez said. It’s a much different situation than if Alvarez had to lead off the next inning with nobody on base. “Luis made a great pitch,” Servais said. “This game’s a game of inches. “I thought I had it,” said Frazier, the Mariners second baseman. I think he did the same.”

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Mariners vs. Astros - Game Recap - October 13, 2022 - ESPN (ESPN)

Alvarez and his mighty bat did it yet again, launching a go-ahead, two-run homer in the sixth inning off Seattle ace Luis Castillo that lifted the Astros over ...

Crawford](https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/33210/jp-crawford) lined into a double play. [Bryan Abreu](https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/41208/bryan-abreu) got the first two outs of the seventh before [Rafael Montero](https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/32631/rafael-montero) came in and threw 1 1/3 scoreless innings. [Carlos Santana](http://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/30280/carlos-santana) then hit a one-hopper that Valdez fielded cleanly toward the third base side, but his throw home was offline for an error that allowed Suarez to tie it at 1-all. [Ryan Pressly](https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/33072/ryan-pressly) walked the leadoff batter in the ninth before [J.P. Kirby pitched in relief in Game 2 of the wild-card round and became the first rookie in MLB history to record a postseason season in his first career relief appearance. [Hector Neris](https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/32377/hector-neris) got the win after getting the last out of the sixth inning to escape a bases-loaded jam. Rodríguez doubled after that, but Pressly struck out [Ty France](http://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/35591/ty-france) for the save. In the opener, he fielded a single by Suarez in the fourth and threw a perfect strike to Maldonado, who tagged out France at the plate. [Framber Valdez](https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/36581/framber-valdez) had a solid start, allowing four hits and two runs in 5 2/3 innings. He had a different look than he did in his last postseason appearance after he and fellow pitcher [Luis Garcia](https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/33089/luis-garcia) [both got hair extensions this season](https://apnews.com/article/astros-hair-extensions-framber-garcia-2cd9fa800afe41062b055d9401c76f29). Castillo bent down and slapped his legs in disappointment as he watched the ball drop in shallow center. He likes to be in the big moment.

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Houston Astros Slugger Yordan Alvarez May Still Be A Bit Under ... (Forbes)

It isn't often the Los Angeles Dodgers make a mistake trading a player. In June 2016, on the last day of the MLB international signing period, ...

Yordan Alvarez is great for the game. Down 7-5 to Seattle with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Alvarez hit a game-ending, three-run homer off Seattle lefty Robbie Ray to win the game. He hit an amazing 63 home runs, and drove in 131 runs for the Yankees this season. He went to the plate 17 times, and got five hits. In July this year, Alvarez spent time dealing with painful right hand inflammation that sent him to the Injured List. And to this writer, even with everything he has accomplished, Alvarez remains a tad under the radar. Alvarez hit Ray’s second pitch to the right field seats. That’s the type of damage he can inflict. Ray was the 2021 American League Cy Young Award Winner. At his age 22 rookie season, Alvarez hit 26 doubles, 27 home runs, drove in 78 runs, and scored 58 times in 369 plate appearances. It is understandable that Alvarez doesn’t get the same buzz as the all time American League home run champion, Aaron Judge, or sensational pitcher/slugger, Shohei Ohtani. He played first base and served as a designated hitter.

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MLB Playoffs rewind: Yordan Alvarez strikes again as Astros take 2 ... (The Athletic)

The Astros moved to within a game of advancing to another ALCS, as Alvarez once again was the foil for the Mariners.

[The Mariners did several things right](https://theathletic.com/3690604/2022/10/13/mariners-lose-game-2-alds/), going all the way back to trading for Luis Castillo because he seemed like the kind of pitcher who, if called upon, could make a very good team look bad in the postseason. You can point a stubby finger at the TV and understand the causality behind the heartbreaking loss. Then that number creeps up to 73 percent less than a week later, and it goes up to 87 percent a week after that.

Alvarez Homers Again, Astros Top Mariners 4-2, Lead ALDS 2-0 (U.S. News & World Report)

HOUSTON (AP) — Yordan Alvarez and his mighty bat did it yet again, launching a go-ahead, two-run homer in the sixth inning off Seattle ace Luis Castillo ...

Neris took over and retired Cal Raleigh on a groundout to escape the jam. Houston’s Lance McCullers Jr., who started just eight games this season after missing the first four months of the year with a forearm strain, will oppose rookie George Kirby in Game 3 in Seattle Saturday. Suarez walked with one out in the fourth and Mitch Haniger doubled. Crawford doubled with two outs in the third. Alvarez grabbed a sharp liner hit by Eugenio Suarez to end the seventh. Bryan Abreu got the first two outs of the seventh before Rafael Montero came in and threw 1 1/3 scoreless innings. Ryan Pressly walked the leadoff batter in the ninth before J.P. The Mariners intentionally walked him and Alex Bregman made them pay, adding some insurance when he singled to make it 4-2. He likes to be in the big moment. The lefty pointed to them as he reached the plate before reenacting the powerful swing that has the Astros one win away from their sixth straight AL Championship Series. But with two outs, Jeremy Peña singled on a blooper that fell in between second baseman Adam Frazier and center fielder Julio Rodríguez. “I would say intelligent,” he said in Spanish through a translator.

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Astros-Mariners Game 3 FAQ (Sat., 4 ET, TBS) (MLB.com)

HOUSTON -- Can the Astros close out this American League Division Series and advance to play for the pennant for the sixth straight year?

Follow [@brianmctaggart](http://twitter.com/brianmctaggart) on Twitter. [with two go-ahead homers](https://www.mlb.com/news/astros-win-game-2-2022-alds) and seven RBIs in the first two games of the ALDS. Follow him on Twitter at [@DKramer_](http://twitter.com/DKramer_). The others: Troy Glaus (2002) and Ken Griffey Jr. [will make his first postseason start](https://www.mlb.com/news/george-kirby-starting-game-3-of-alds-for-mariners). Mariners: Julio Rodríguez went 1-for-5 in Game 2, but his hit was a 115.8 mph double, the hardest-hit ball of the game. Astros manager Dusty Baker has yet to use his best reliever -- Ryne Stanek -- in either of the first two games. He ranks second in club history in postseason innings pitched (57 1/3), trailing only Justin Verlander (93 1/3). (4-2, 2.27 in the regular season) was limited to eight starts due to a right flexor tendon injury, but he racked up 50 strikeouts and posted a .215 opponent average upon his return. Kirby’s 7.79 K/BB ratio through his first 20 starts is the highest in AL/NL history, excluding openers. The right-hander made his playoff debut in Game 2 of the AL Wild Card Series, earning the save in his first Major League relief appearance. The standings in this best-of-five round show complete Houston dominance, but this back-and-forth has been much closer than it looks.

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Otro jonrón de Álvarez amplía ventaja de Astros ante Seattle (San Diego Union-Tribune en Español)

Yordan Alvarez vuelve a lucir su poderoso bate para descargar un jonrón de dos carreras que significa la ventaja en el sexto episodio ante Luis Castillo, ...

El venezolano Eugenio Suárez de 3-0 con una anotada. El puertorriqueño Martín Maldonado de 3-0. Esta vez, el dominicano aceptó un jonrón temprano de Kyle Tucker, si bien toleró poco más y llegó al sexto episodio con una ventaja de 2-1. Pero con dos outs, el dominicano Jeremy Peña bateó un sencillo. El zurdo señaló hacia ese lugar en el graderío cuando llegaba al plato. Si todo sale de acuerdo con el plan, el resultado es positivo”.

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MLB: Astros vuelven a vencer a Mariners y están a un triunfo de la ... (Mundo Deportivo)

Gracias al bateo oportuno del cubano Yordan Álvarez en la sexta entrada, los Houston Astros lograron remontar para vencer 4-2 a los Seattle Mariners y ...

Cabe recordar que Houston fue el representante de la Liga Americana en la Serie Mundial de la temporada 2021, misma que finalmente perdieron en 6 juegos contra los Atlanta Braves. Para la octava entrada, el mexicano Andrés Muñóz salió al relevo y puso fuera rápidamente a Martín Maldonado y José Altuve. Sin embargo, la tragedia se consumó cuando Peña y Álvarez se pusieron en base gracias a un par de boletos otorgados, ya que con el siguiente turno, Alex Bregman conectó un sencillo para que el dominicano anotara desde segunda base y pusiera cifras definitivas en el marcador.

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Con home run de Yordan Álvarez los Astros tomaron ventaja (Fox Deportes)

Houston derrotó 4-2 a los Seattle Mariners y aventajan 2-0 en la ALDS.

(91 por ciento), con 19 rematando la barrida en el Juego 3. (De los 10 equipos que regresaron, el más reciente fue los Yankees de 2017 contra Cleveland). [para enviar a Houston a una victoria de 4-2 sobre los Mariners ](https://www.foxdeportes.com/mlb/galeria/arrancan-los-playoffs-y-estan-listas-las-estrellas-de-los-juegos-divisionales)en el Juego 2 de la Serie Divisional de la Liga Americana.

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Otro HR clave de Yordan tiene a Houston a un triunfo de la SCLA (MLB.com)

Y cada vez asombra más el repunte que ha tenido el poderoso toletero cubano, quien sufrió tanto durante la derrota de Houston ante los Bravos de Atlanta en la ...

El venezolano Eugenio Suárez de 3-0 con una anotada. El puertorriqueño Martín Maldonado de 3-0. Esta vez, el dominicano aceptó un jonrón temprano de Kyle Tucker, si bien toleró poco más y llegó al sexto episodio con una ventaja de 2-1. Pero con dos outs, el dominicano Jeremy Peña bateó un sencillo. El zurdo señaló hacia ese lugar en el graderío cuando llegaba al plato. Si todo sale de acuerdo con el plan, el resultado es positivo".

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Oops! All Astros: Victor Diaz & Victor Mascai (The Crawfish Boxes)

While the Astros continue to set 'em up and knock 'em down in the 2022 Postseason, we're well into our offseason-long series on every player in Houston's ...

Defensively, he played 353 1⁄3 innings at first base (.969 fielding percentage), and 56 frames in left field (1.000 fielding percentage). He hit two singles and a double, scoring twice and knocking two in on [August 3](https://www.milb.com/gameday/dsl-hou-orange-vs-dsl-braves/2022/08/03/711132#game_state=final,game_tab=,game=711132), in an 8-4 win against the DSL Braves. By 2021, he was on the Woodpeckers, slashing .174/.335/.386 in 41 contests. After getting released just before the 2021 season got underway, he signed on with the [Los Angeles Dodgers](https://www.truebluela.com/), but once again got released prior to the 2022 season. Born on February 10, 2001, he signed with the Astros on July 3, 2017. In a pair of games on April 24 and 27, he strung together consecutive three-hit games. He was far-and-away better against lefties, with a .314/.419/.686 line. Born on November 25, 2001, he signed his first professional deal with the [Philadelphia Phillies](https://www.thegoodphight.com/) on July 2, 2018. He hit nine home runs and stole two bases. Over 36 games in total, Diaz hit .307/.396/.534 with five doubles, five homers, and 17 RBI. [Victor Diaz](https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=diaz--011vic) is a five-foot-10, 175 lb. Whatever wisdom Diaz picked up after getting twice released seems to have paid off.

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Astros' Jose Altuve trolled on Los Angeles Kings' video board (Houston Chronicle)

The Los Angeles Kings played a celebrity look-alikes game on their video board during an NHL game and compared Astros star Jose Altuve to a trash can.

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This isn't the first time teams have feared Yordan (MLB.com)

Yordan Alvarez is getting the Barry Bonds treatment. This became clear when the Astros' slugger was intentionally walked with a man on first base in the ...

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Back in 2019 while with Triple-A Round Rock, Alvarez was hitting .361 with 20 homers and 64 RBIs through only 50 games. It’s easy to understand the Mariners’ decision after Alvarez tore their hearts out in Game 1 and made more home run history two days later. 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Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow saw all this success coming ... (Houston Chronicle)

Yordan Alvarez of the Houston Astros talks with general manager Jeff Luhnow before a game against the Milwaukee Brewers at Minute Maid Park on June 11, 2019, a ...

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Houston Astros bullpen inspires confidence in ALDS (Chron)

Houston relievers have given the team a boost amid a 2-0 start to the playoffs.

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Mariners turn to rookie George Kirby to face Astros in Game 3 with ... (The Seattle Times)

Their season on the brink, the Mariners will hand the ball over to a 24-year-old rookie to make his first postseason start in the first playoff baseball ...

In Kirby’s first spring-training start, facing a major-league lineup for the first time, he didn’t get the call on a couple of borderline pitches he thought should have been strikes. Between his first two pro seasons, he barely threw 90 innings in the minors. He is the poster boy for the organization’s Control the Zone philosophy, and he wore at T-shirt with that slogan during a news conference Thursday in Houston. After eventually getting the final out of the inning, Kirby barked and glared at the home-plate umpire while walking back to the dugout. He was the unexpected choice to protect a one-run lead in the ninth inning, and it worked. “We saw a little bit of that in Toronto, how he handled that situation.

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Jeremy Peña has Been a Hero the Houston Astros Need This ... (Sports Illustrated)

Rookie shortstop Jeremy Peña has had a memorable season, but he is proving to be the postseason hero the Houston Astros have needed.

He had an upswing in September that has carried over into the postseason. Yordan Álvarez has been the subject of all the headlines. Without that tenacity and type of at-bats, Game 1 would have been a loss and the outcome of Game 2 very likely would have been different. But the quiet hero has been Jeremy Peña. Rightfully so after a walk-off home run in Game 1 and the go-ahead home run in the sixth inning of Game 2. Jeremy Peña has Been a Hero the Houston Astros Need This Postseason

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Yordan Alvarez makes history again giving Astros commanding ... (Climbing Tal's Hill)

Nobody in history had done what Yordan Alvarez did in Game 1 of the ALDS. Now the Houston Astros slugger has done it again.

This game wasn’t over, Alvarez came up to bat later on in the eighth inning but was intentionally walked with a runner on. As the game continued, Yordan Alvarez came up to bat with two runners on and two outs, down 7-5. Yordan Alvarez came up to bat and hit a two-run double to cut the lead in half, showing everyone that he is clutch.

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Astros baseball bat becomes cake at Houston bakery Rustika (Houston Chronicle)

An Astros superfan with money to spare placed a special order at Rustika Café and Bakery in Friendswood, just in time for the Astros postseason:

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WATCH: L.A. Kings troll Astros' Jose Altuve with trash can 'look-alike ... (CBS sports.com)

During their game against the Seattle Kraken on Thursday night at Crypto.com Arena, the Kings flashed several Dodgers on the jumbotron and identified look- ...

In their ALDS matchup, the Astros are up 2-0 on the [Seattle Mariners](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/SEA/seattle-mariners/). With the 2022 MLB playoffs going on now, the Dodgers and Astros might be on a collision course to meet in the World Series again. Hinch were both suspended for a year, and the franchise was fined $5 million and forced to forfeit draft picks. And Jose Altuve with a 🗑 at the end. The LA Kings did a “Look Alike” game on their video board, featuring fans that look like Dodgers players ... The Astros are not safe from ridicule anywhere in L.A., even when the Kings are playing.

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Mariners and Astros Head to Seattle for ALDS Game 3 (The New York Times)

After 20 seasons of frustration, the Mariners made it back to the postseason and won a wild-card series. But they are heading home down 0-2 to the Astros in ...

That fall, the Mariners followed up the Yankees series with a six-game loss to Cleveland in the A.L. The Toronto series was misleading, as it turned out: The Mariners were never going to make this easy on themselves. In the Astros, though, they have met a rival similar to the one that ended their joyride in 1995. But the Astros, for now, remain the gatekeeper to the World Series. A former pitcher, he spent two seasons with Cleveland but was traded to the Mets before the 1995 season, then dealt to Colorado a couple of years later. “We thought we could be a competitive club by ’21 and contend for a divisional championship by ’22 or ’23, and that’s the way we talked through it with ownership,” said Dipoto, who has spent seven full seasons in Seattle. After a miracle comeback to win the American League West that season, Seattle lost twice to the Yankees in the Bronx, including once on a walk-off homer (by Jim Leyritz). And the Mariners — forever on brand — took the toughest route possible to get back. Yordan Alvarez, the Astros’ slugging left fielder, connected that day and homered again in Game 2 to lead Houston to a 4-2 victory. But they are heading home down 0-2 to the Astros in a division series. That had never happened before in the history of baseball’s postseason, which began in 1903. The Seattle Mariners often had hope; they developed stars, they spent money to sign top free agents.

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