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June ninth, 2024
ANAHEIM — No one was protected in Angel Stadium on Saturday night time from the thunderous swings of slugger Yordan Alvarez. Not Angels starter Tyler Anderson, who gave up a double and a homer, and definitely not hard-throwing reliever Ben Joyce, who couldn’t blow a 103.9 mph fastball previous Alvarez within the eighth inning.
Alvarez hit Joyce’s quickest pitch of the sport the opposite manner for a double and got here round to attain on an RBI single by Yainer Diaz on a 103.1 mph fastball from Joyce — a pair of spectacular swings that put the ending touches on the Astros’ 6-1 win over the Angels.
“I used to be making an attempt to drag the ball and I hit it the opposite manner,” Alvarez joked.
Alvarez’s first-inning double was 110.7 mph off the bat and his fifth-inning homer to proper area had solely a 98.1 mph exit velocity — his slowest hit ball of the night time. His hardest-hit ball? A 112.3 mph lineout to proper area within the ninth.
“I feel a swing like that simply offers me good vitality and it tells me the swing is in the best spot,” Alvarez mentioned. “It makes me really feel extra optimistic about my swing.”
Behind Alvarez’s three extra-base hits, two runs and two RBIs, in addition to six scoreless innings from beginning pitcher Hunter Brown, the Astros received for the fourth time in 5 video games to maneuver inside one-half sport of the Rangers for second place within the American League West.
“I feel it hasn’t been a shock for anybody to see us have excessive and lows and have some good moments and unhealthy moments,” Alvarez mentioned. “I feel up to now, we now have a whole lot of guys which have expertise within the playoffs, which were by way of these moments. We performed some good baseball and I feel there’s going to be a spot the place we’re going to all click on and when all is alleged and accomplished, we’re going to be those to have the final snicker.”
Alvarez’s double within the eighth off the Joyce heater is the fourth-fastest pitch to finish up as successful since monitoring started, together with the playoffs (since 2008). The three that had been hit on tougher pitches had been all off Aroldis Chapman at 104.2 mph.
“He’s clearly the most effective hitters in baseball,” Joyce mentioned. “They’ll catch as much as that stuff so it was nearly being higher with my offspeed [pitches] and setting that up somewhat higher and I feel the consequence might have been totally different.”
Alvarez is slashing .367/.430/.633 with six homers and 15 RBIs in his final 28 video games, elevating his batting common from .239 to .296 in that span. Houston has gone 17-11 in video games by which Alvarez has performed since Might 9.
“He’s been hitting the ball onerous the final couple of weeks,” Astros supervisor Joe Espada mentioned. “I feel now he’s really beginning to simply get the ball within the air and begin driving the ball. Lots of the balls he was hitting a few weeks in the past had been onerous on the bottom. He was chasing some pitches up within the zone, and now he’s discovering his zone and swinging strikes, and when he does that he’s a very scary hitter.”
One night time after left-hander Framber Valdez threw a complete game, Brown wanted a season-high 98 pitches to throw six scoreless innings for his fourth consecutive high quality begin. He allowed two hits and 4 walks and struck out seven batters.
Brown pitched his manner out of a bases-loaded jam within the first by hanging out Matt Thaiss on a 98.2 mph fastball — a pitch Espada mentioned was “explosive.” Brown averaged 96.6 mph along with his four-seamer, hitting 98.5 mph.
“I advised him when he received off the mound, that’s an indication of a pitcher maturing and determining methods to get folks out if you don’t have your stuff,” Espada mentioned. “We would have liked that from him.”
Brown has a 2.25 ERA in his final 4 begins, however the workforce had misplaced his earlier three begins. Astros starters have posted a 2.83 ERA and .191 batting common in opposition to within the workforce’s final 16 video games since Might 22. It’s coming on the proper time, contemplating the Astros had two pitchers undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery (José Urquidy and Cristian Javier) this week.
“We’re making an attempt to maintain it going,” Brown mentioned. “We’ve been taking part in some good baseball and it’s good to contribute to that personally.”