{"id":689471,"date":"2026-05-23T23:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689471\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:02:10","slug":"houston-astros-slugger-yordan-alvarez-exits-vs-chicago-cubs-with-back-spasms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689471\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez exits vs. Chicago Cubs with back spasms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CHICAGO &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/houston-astros\/242\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/houston-astros\/242\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> designated hitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/yordan-alvarez\/943524\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/yordan-alvarez\/943524\" target=\"_blank\">Yordan Alvarez<\/a> left Saturday&#8217;s 3-0 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> in the middle of an at-bat in the sixth inning because of back spasms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After fouling off a pitch from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/colin-rea\/578060\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/colin-rea\/578060\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Rea<\/a> to fall behind 0-2, Alvarez appeared to be in discomfort. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/zach-dezenzo\/1397895\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/zach-dezenzo\/1397895\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Dezenzo<\/a> stepped in as a pinch-hitter, and swung and missed on the next pitch to complete the strikeout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;Once that at-bat got going, he took too much time in between pitches,&#8221; Houston manager Joe Espada said. &#8220;It was time to come out of the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alvarez was chatting with the training staff in the on-deck circle before the at-bat, his third of the game. The three-time All-Star is batting .300 with 15 homers and 31 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8220;He feels better,&#8221; Espada said. &#8220;But we&#8217;ll check him tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alvarez told mlb.com that he won&#8217;t play on Sunday, but the decision has nothing to do with the injury. It will be a scheduled day off, his first of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8212; Houston Astros designated hitter Yordan Alvarez left Saturday&#8217;s 3-0 win over the Chicago Cubs in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,162661,462,82,252182],"class_list":["post-689471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-houston-astros-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-242","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-yordan-alvarez-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-943524"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}