{"id":112376,"date":"2025-08-26T22:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112376\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:59:09","slug":"slugger-yordan-alvarez-out-since-may-3-returns-to-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/112376\/","title":{"rendered":"Slugger Yordan Alvarez, out since May 3, returns to Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aug 26, 2025, 05:02 PM ET<\/p>\n

HOUSTON — Astros<\/a> slugger Yordan Alvarez<\/a> was reinstated from the 60-day injured list Tuesday after sitting out since May 3 while he recovered from a fractured right hand.<\/p>\n

Alvarez returns after playing four rehabilitation games for Double-A Corpus Christi, where he went 7 for 15 with four doubles, four RBIs and a stolen base.<\/p>\n

The injury was initially diagnosed as a muscle strain.<\/p>\n

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Alvarez’s return should be a big boost to the Astros as the postseason approaches. He led the team in batting average (.308), home runs (35) and RBIs (86) last season.<\/p>\n

Houston leads the American League West by 1.5 games over the Seattle Mariners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Alvarez hit .210 with 3 homers and 18 RBIs in 29 games this season before his injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 26, 2025, 05:02 PM ET HOUSTON — Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez was reinstated from the 60-day injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-112376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}