{"id":370092,"date":"2026-07-12T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370092\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:32:09","slug":"alvarez-hits-al-leading-31st-homer-wade-has-first-career-grand-slam-and-astros-beat-rangers-9-3-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370092\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvarez hits AL-leading 31st homer, Wade has first career grand slam and Astros beat Rangers 9-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Yordan Alvarez had another moonshot for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/video\/kumar-rocker-in-play-run-s-to-yordan-alvarez-3hqwdh-5io7g7?partnerId=web_multimedia-search_video-share\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AL-leading 31st home run<\/a>, LaMonte Wade Jr. hit his first career grand slam and the Houston Astros beat the Texas Rangers 9-3 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros led for good after Alvarez, also the AL leader with 70 RBIs, hit a two-run homer 425 feet to straightaway center in the first inning, a night after a towering 455-foot blast pulled to right in the series opener. The American League All-Star starting designated hitter is one behind National League All-Star DH Kyle Schwarber for the major league lead in homers.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Lambert (8-5) pitched three-hit ball over six innings while striking out seven and walking one. The right-hander, who didn&#8217;t make the Astros roster out of spring training, is 6-1 with a 2.84 ERA over his last nine starts.<\/p>\n<p>Ezequiel Dur\u00e1n homered twice for the AL West-leading Rangers (48-47). He had a solo shot off Lambert in the fourth, and added a two-run homer in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Wade&#8217;s slam in the second was his 57th career homer and his second in nine games with the Astros (47-50). Christian V\u00e1zquez went deep leading off the third to make it 7-0, when they already had eight of their 10 hits.<\/p>\n<p>All three Houston homers came off Texas starter Kumar Rocker (2-8), who struck out six, but walked two and also hit a batter over 5 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez, now with 201 career homers, also had a double and walked twice. He has hit .455 (10 of 22) with seven homers and 11 RBIs in six games this season at Globe Life Field.<\/p>\n<p>Houston&#8217;s Cristian Javier (0-1, 10.22 ERA), who missed nearly three months because of a right shoulder strain, makes his first start since April 8 in the series finale Sunday going into the All-Star break. The Rangers go with MacKenzie Gore (5-8, 4.72), who pitched five innings Wednesday in a loss to the Angels, in place of Jacob deGrom (left glute strain).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Yordan Alvarez had another moonshot for his AL-leading 31st home run, LaMonte Wade Jr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,111928,90791,48644,39233,53311,57463,131078,57328,23681,202,95827,196,42094,942,57925],"class_list":["post-370092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-astros-rangers-score","tag-christian-vazquez","tag-cristian-javier","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-kumar-rocker","tag-lamonte-wade","tag-mackenzie-gore","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-peter-lambert","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370092","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=370092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}