By Guillermo Sanchez
Yordan Alvarez has done it again! Cuban hit a spectacular home run with the Houston Astros to cut the lead against the Texas Rangers.
We talked here recently Full swing The offensive prowess of the left fielder of the reigning Fall Classic champions.
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Let’s remember that with 372 games, he established a new franchise as the player who needed the fewest games to hit 100 home runs.
2023 looks set to be the inauguration year for Cuban favorite Yordon Alvarez to shake off the MVP thorn that Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani missed last season.
For that he wants to hit a lot of balls like he did against the Texas Rangers on Friday the 14th.
Yordon Alvarez homered for Texas
At Minute Maid Park in Houston, a three-game series opened between the home Astros and the visiting Rangers.
At the top of the third inning, the match was already 3×0 in favor of the visitors, but things would change when it was Yordon Alvarez’s turn.
On the first pitch by lefty Martin Perez of Venezuela, a 90.1-mile cutter, Left fielder He’ll make a full swing to connect with “Dona Blanca” at 100 miles per hour and at a 35-degree angle to the horizontal, and with that, he’ll travel 354 feet through left field.
The hit gave Yordon Alvarez four home runs in the 2023 season and his 300th career RBI, making him 36th in Astros history with that tally, and after 379 games, he is the fastest among debutants. Astros (Lance Bergman, 417) and second in franchise history (Moise Allo, 352 games).
I won’t say much, better leave the video alone…
🇨🇺 Yordon Alvarez 4th home run #MLB2023,300 RBI lifetime
🔥 No. 36 in history #Astros with the image of
🔥379 games, fastest among Astros debutants (Lance Bergman, 417)
🔥2nd in Astros history (Moses Alou (352 games)
#Ready2Government pic.twitter.com/6t0h4ejvoV— Jose Alejandro Rodriguez Jas (@jzas23) April 15, 2023
