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Yordan Alvarez homers to give Astros 2-0 ALDS lead over Mariners


Yordan Alvarez

“Fortunately, he’s a family guy…”
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When Clint Eastwood played his character in “Gran Torino,” I didn’t pay much attention to the Hollywood legend’s films. So forgive me, I just watched “Trouble with Curves,” and aside from proof that Justin Timberlake isn’t an actor, I walked away surprised. It’s a pretty innocuous baseball movie, and I don’t hate the baseball scenes.

In the short story, Clint plays a longtime scout who picks out various tips that novice scouts miss with their technology and stats. Anyway, at the beginning of the movie, a player that Clint is sponsoring is down, so he advises the team to send the potential client’s parents to visit him. Everyone got a good laugh, including the cocky analytical bastard. As Eastwood was winning in the boardroom at the grand prize, someone mentioned that mom and dad’s visit was a success, and the guy at home was hitting .450 or something.

As a skeptic, I roll my eyes at the idea of ​​such a tactic ever working in real life. Then, no more than a couple of weeks into the mockery, I turned on the Houston-Seattle series to find Yordan Alvarez in another big spot, passing twice and a man at the bottom of table six.

For the second game in a row, Alvarez had a home win with just enough numbers to put the Astros ahead. It wasn’t a triple hit, looked like it was still going up when it landed upstairs like in game 1, but took the lead from 2-1 to 3-2 late in the game. will suffice.

The other similarity to Wednesday was Alvarez’s family was in the stands watching their offspring/sibling directly for the first time since 2014. After a long and arduous trip to the states from Cuba by way of the Dominican Republic and Mexico, they arrived at the end of August. Father Agustín Eduardo Alvarez, mother Marilyn Cadogan Reyes Salazar, and brother Yonder Alvarez Cadogan are TBS favorite reaction shots, and for good reason. Their son/brother attended two World Series tournaments, and they were also unable to attend.

In the 32 competitions since his family’s arrival, Yordan has been one of the hottest players in the MLB, hitting around 0.350, with 40 hits – eight of which were hosts – and 25 RBIs. If you extrapolate those stats to the entire 2022 season, aside from the batting average, it’s a bit higher than where he would have ended if he hadn’t missed 27 games.

For any player, getting over .300, with 40 home runs and 125 RBIs – he finished with 37 and 97 in 135 games – would be MVP territory (in any season when when Aaron Judge doesn’t have a career year). It’s not if he needs more motivation, although if you can push such a guy to the top, that’s never a bad thing.

When the Astros’ biggest contender can obliterate every pitch you try to throw because he’s destroying everything you try to get past him, the best hope of beating Houston is to get lucky. your favorite god.

When Yordan stepped on the plate again at the end of season eight with a man first, Seattle manager Scott Servais finally stepped on the slugger. Of course, Alex Bregman showed up and immediately drove into the insurance situation to make it 4-2, which was game 2 over, giving Houston a 2-0 series lead.

I know it looks like any switch where M’s toggle switch starts a self-destruct countdown. However, there are some variables that you cannot take into account. A guy leaving because he’s finally enjoying the playoffs with family members in the friends and family box? That’s something only spies without computers care about.


Please let me know if you watched something other than Commanders-Bears

Here’s the first half recap from Thursday night’s NFL game that you should forget it ever happened: Punt, punt, intercept, punt, down, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, field goal, finish end the match.

The scoring rate actually increased in the last two quarters, with two touches and one goal. (Washington won, 12-7, if anyone cares). [Editor’s note: I’m sure not many outside of Chicago and D.C.]

Justin Fields’ third-quarter touchdown pass was the first TD in a Thursday night game in more than six quarters. The final game was the Bengal team’s quarter-over in Week 4, aka the Tua Tagovailoa game. Four previous Amazon broadcasts went like this: Browns beat Steelers in Cleveland in four days after their fans added rape jokes to their back gate, Tua almost died on the field four days after presumably concussionMatt Ryan and Russell Wilson battle to see who gets more baths, and then last night’s offerings to the meme gods eight hours later Dan Snyder threatens to blackmail the league.

However, hey, if TNF plays out anything like the first half of Washington-Chicago, there are only four more hits and a drop in revenue before something worth watching happens.

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