Yordan doing Yordan things. On Saturday afternoon, the clutch-hitting Yordan Álvarez was as clutch as ever by hitting a 392-foot moonshot to give the Astros a 3-2 win over the Athletics, their sixth straight victory and ninth in their last 10 games. As a key man of the result, rookie starter Hunter Brown had his best outing of the month.
It was the eighth inning and Yordan came up to the plate to lead off against lefty Richard Lovelady, who didn’t want to pitch Yordan inside or even in the middle of the zone. Four or the five pitches Álvarez saw in the at-bat were in the outer part of the strike zone.