{"id":772680,"date":"2026-07-01T05:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772680\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:35:14","slug":"alvarezs-grand-slam-highlights-six-run-inning-as-astros-beat-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772680\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvarez\u2019s grand slam highlights six-run inning as Astros beat Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Yordan Alvarez<\/a>\u2019s grand slam highlighted a six-run fourth inning and the Houston Astros<\/a> beat the Minnesota Twins<\/a> 6-4 on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

With Houston facing a three-run deficit after three innings, Cam Smith<\/a> and Taylor Trammell<\/a> singled in the fourth. With runners at the corners, Yainer Diaz<\/a> hit an RBI single. Raynel Delgato walked, loading the bases. Jose Altuve<\/a> challenged his strikeout call with a full count. The call was overturned and another run scored. Alvarez then hit his 26th home run of the season to right-center field.<\/p>\n

Astros starter Mike Burrows<\/a> (4-8) pitched five innings. He gave up six hits and four earned runs, striking out three and walking two. Josh Hader<\/a> struck out two in the ninth inning and picked up his eighth save.<\/p>\n

Victor Caratini<\/a> was hit by a pitch with bases loaded in the first inning, giving the Twins an early 1-0 lead. Ryan Kreidler<\/a> hit a two-run single and advanced to second base off a fielding error by Alvarez, who overran the ball in the outfield. <\/p>\n

Minnesota\u2019s Josh Bell<\/a> added an RBI double in the fifth inning. <\/p>\n

Twins pitcher Joe Ryan<\/a> (5-5) worked four innings, giving up six hits and six earned runs. He struck out five and allowed three walks.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Astros RHP Tatsuya Imai<\/a> (5-3, 5.36 ERA) will face Twins RHP Taj Bradley<\/a> (6-3, 3.98) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Yordan Alvarez\u2019s grand slam highlighted a six-run fourth inning and the Houston Astros beat the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-772680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772680","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=772680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}