{"id":733971,"date":"2026-06-13T12:10:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733971\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:10:52","slug":"astros-slugger-yordan-alvarez-becomes-1st-mlb-player-to-hit-grand-slam-multi-run-hr-in-1st-inning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733971\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez becomes 1st MLB player to hit grand slam, multi-run HR in 1st inning"},"content":{"rendered":"

KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Yordan Alvarez<\/a> became the first player to hit a grand slam and multi-run homer in the first inning of a Major League Baseball game, pulling off the feat for the Houston Astros<\/a> against the Kansas City Royals<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

He became the eighth player to hit a grand slam and a multi-run homer in an inning and the first since Angels slugger Kendrys Morales<\/a> did it against Texas<\/a> in 2012, according to Sportradar.<\/p>\n

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The left-handed Alvarez drove in two runs with an opposite-field homer early in the inning and cleared the bases with a two-out shot to center, giving him six RBIs in Houston\u2019s nine-run inning.<\/p>\n

Alvarez, the AL leader in homers, tied Philadelphia<\/a>\u2019s Kyle Schwarber<\/a> for the MLB lead at 24 with his two-homer inning.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old designated hitter, who is from Cuba, was the AL rookie of the year in 2019 with Houston. The three-time All-Star was the AL Championship Series MVP in 2021 and led the Astros with six RBIs the next year when they won the World Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Yordan Alvarez became the first player to hit a grand slam and multi-run homer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,23303,5163,56414,354918,5152,5882,591,5136,85,3370,189590,16050],"class_list":["post-733971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-homer","tag-houston-astros","tag-inning","tag-kendrys-morales","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-the-kansas-city-royals","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}