Tampa Bay Rays at Houston Astros

· Major League Baseball

Tampa Bay Rays

52-34, 21-22 Away

Final
8 - 10

Houston Astros

44-47, 22-24 Home

Alvarez hits 2-run homer in 9th to cap big night with Astros' 10-8 victory over Rays

Yordan Alvarez blasts walk-off HR for Astros

The Rays had won nine in a row, the longest winning streak in the American League this season.

Named to his fourth All-Star team before the game, Alvarez homered twice and drove in six runs. He leads the AL with 29 homers and has four multi-homer games this season.

Jose Altuve drew a walk to open the ninth against Legumina (2-2). Altuve was 2 for 3 with two walks and three runs.

After Hunter Brown allowed a season-high seven runs over four innings, Houston’s bullpen combined to hold the Rays to a run over the final innings, with Josh Hader (3-0) earning the win.

Named to his second All-Star team on Saturday, Junior Caminero went deep with one out in the first inning to give the Rays a 1-0 lead. He has hit 11 home runs over his last 11 games and has 26 overall.

The Rays regained the lead when Richie Palacios hit a two-run homer in the second inning, and they scored three runs in the third and one in fourth to make it 7-2 before Yainer Diaz hit a two-run home run of his own in the bottom of the fourth.

Jonny DeLuca answered Alvarez’s fifth inning RBI single with a solo homer in the seventh, but Houston tied it with a three run seventh inning, capped by Zach Dezenzo’s pinch-hit, two-out RBI single off Craig Kimbrel.

Up next RHP Peter Lambert (6-5, 3.51 ERA) was set to start for the Astros on Sunday in the series finale. The Rays had not announced a starter.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Alvarez homered to center (424 feet), Altuve scored.
	9th Inning	Altuve walked.
	9th Inning	Legumina relieved Kimbrel
	9th Inning	Walls struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Palacios walked.
	9th Inning	DeLuca flied out to left.

Statistics

TB		HOU
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
11	Ground Balls	10
10	Strikeouts	4
6	Runs Batted In	10
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	11
6	Stolen Bases	0
8	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
8	Runs	10
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
1	Sacrifice Flies	1
35	At Bats	33
3	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
23	Runners Left On Base	12
0	Triples	1
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	2
15	Fly Balls	20
0	Caught Stealing	0
178	Pitches	142
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	1
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
18	Total Bases	24
44	Plate Appearances	38
486.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
3	Extra Base Hits	6
8.3	Runs Created	8.7
.257	Batting Average	.333
.000	Pinch Hit Average	1.000
.514	Slugging Percentage	.727
.657	Secondary Average	.485
.386	On Base Percentage	.395
.901	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.122
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.5
8.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	9.8
52.0	Batter Rating	66.5
11.7	At Bats Per Home Run	11.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.05	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.74
.257	Isolated Power	.394
0.80	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.75
.182	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.079
.400	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.152
14.0	Runs Produced	20.0
0.8	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.8
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.3
94.8	MLB Rating	108.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0