Yordan Alvarez hit a two-run, walk-off home run off Rays reliever Casey Legumina in the bottom of the ninth to give the Astros a 10-8 come-from-behind win at Daikin Park. Alvarez’s homer, measured in sample posts at 424 feet with a 108.3 mph exit velocity, capped a two-homer, six-RBI game; his long balls were his 28th and 29th of the season and raised his total to 67 RBIs. The Astros rallied from a 7-2 deficit after the fourth inning, cutting the lead with a Yainer Diaz two-run homer and scoring three times in the seventh on a sac fly by Alvarez, an RBI single by Isaac Paredes, and a game-tying pinch-hit single by Zach Dezenzo, who had been called up earlier Saturday. Hunter Brown allowed seven runs in four innings, including a first-inning solo homer to Junior Caminero, who has 11 homers in his past 11 games. Alvarez was named the American League starter at designated hitter for the All-Star Game that day, and the article framed the performance as furthering his march toward the AL Most Valuable Player Award. The win snapped the Rays’ nine-game winning streak and left the final score 10-8.
