{"id":352770,"date":"2026-06-27T16:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352770\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:39:15","slug":"houston-astros-yordan-alvarez-gets-scheduled-rare-day-off-vs-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352770\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros&#8217; Yordan Alvarez gets scheduled rare day off vs. Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT\u00a0\u2014 Yordan Alvarez was not in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston Astros<\/a>&#8216; lineup for Saturday\u2019s game against the Detroit Tigers for a rare scheduled day off.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez started all but one of the Astros\u2019 first 84 games through Friday. That included the first seven of the team\u2019s stretch of 13 games with no off day that runs through next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Joe Espada said the rest day was \u201cpenciled in a long time ago\u201d for Alvarez, who turned 29 on Saturday. Alvarez\u2019s lone other off day this season occurred May 24 in the finale of a series at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez entered Saturday hitless over his last three games but leading all qualified hitters with a 1.045 OPS. He was tied for the American League lead in home runs (25) and third in RBIs (56).<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/yordan-alvarez-all-star-game-voting-22321404.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">is one of two finalists<\/a> to be named the AL\u2019s starting DH for this year\u2019s All-Star Game. He received the second-most votes among AL position players in the first round of fan balloting for the All-Star Game starters, as announced by MLB on Friday, behind Toronto infielder Ernie Clement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT\u00a0\u2014 Yordan Alvarez was not in the Houston Astros&#8216; lineup for Saturday\u2019s game against the Detroit Tigers for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-352770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}