{"id":434257,"date":"2026-09-12T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434257\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:48:10","slug":"houston-astros-yordan-alvarez-not-in-starting-lineup-again-vs-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434257\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros: Yordan Alvarez not in starting lineup again vs. Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.\u00a0\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/yordan-alvarez-triple-crown-update-22422831.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Yordan Alvarez<\/a> was out of the Houston Astros\u2019 lineup for a second straight game due to a sore right ankle Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez turned his ankle running the bases Thursday in Philadelphia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/yordan-alvarez-out-of-line-22428060.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">was not used off the bench in a close game Friday<\/a> against Tampa Bay. Manager Joe Espada said that he was hopeful Alvarez could return to the lineup for Sunday\u2019s finale against the Rays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came out and moved around, hit in the cages, but still sore,\u201d Espada said before Saturday\u2019s game. \u201cMore when he swings the bat and he\u2019s got to turn that right ankle once he\u2019s going to spin. So it\u2019s still not there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first time Alvarez has been out of Houston\u2019s lineup in back-to-back games this season. He started 145 of the team\u2019s first 147 games prior to Friday, with 123 starts at DH and 22 in left field.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez entered Saturday leading the majors with a 1.017 OPS. A Triple Crown candidate, he led qualified American League hitters with a .310 average and ranked second in home runs (38), after Junior Caminero (40) of the Rays, and second in RBIs (96), behind Pete Alonso (97) of the Orioles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.\u00a0\u2014 Yordan Alvarez was out of the Houston Astros\u2019 lineup for a second straight game due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-434257","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\/434257","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=434257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}