HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Yordan Alvarez hit a two-run homer off Casey Legumina with no outs in the ninth inning to cap a big night and give the Houston Astros a 10-8 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Rays had won nine in a row, the longest winning streak in the American League this season.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Jose Altuve drew a walk to open the ninth against Legumina (2-2). Altuve was 2 for 3 with two walks and three runs.<\/p>\n
After Hunter Brown allowed a season-high seven runs over four innings, Houston\u2019s bullpen combined to hold the Rays to a run over the final innings, with Josh Hader (3-0) earning the win.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Jonny DeLuca answered Alvarez\u2019s 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\u2019s pinch-hit, two-out RBI single off Craig Kimbrel.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Yordan Alvarez hit a two-run homer off Casey Legumina with no outs in the ninth…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":913297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,369174,95065,2621,356769,28438,34542,38820,184754,223492,345796,223490,289007,328782,324435,369173,40642,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,35128,115777,325833],"class_list":["post-913296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-casey-legumina","tag-craig-kimbrel","tag-hunter-brown","tag-jonny-deluca","tag-jose-altuve","tag-josh-hader","tag-junior-caminero","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-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-rays-astros-score","tag-richie-palacios","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-yainer-diaz","tag-yordan-alvarez","tag-zach-dezenzo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}