Yordan Alvarez delivered a two-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth, completing a six-RBI, two-homer performance and lifting the Astros to a 10-8 come-from-behind win over the Rays at Daikin Park.
Houston didn’t have to wait long to remember what the end of the night can feel like.
In the bottom of the ninth on Saturday night at Daikin Park, Yordan Alvarez turned an impossible-looking game into a highlight reel. He hit a two-run walk-off home run off Rays reliever Casey Legumina to cap a wild Astros comeback and send Houston past Tampa Bay, 10-8.
It came after the Astros had already forced a turning point of their own. They rallied from down 7-2 in the fourth inning to snap the Rays’ nine-game winning streak. Alvarez’s damage didn’t stop there, either. On the day he was named the starter at designated hitter for the American League in the All-Star Game. he delivered a two-homer. six-RBI performance that also kept him rolling toward the AL Most Valuable Player Award.
He now has 67 RBIs with his 28th and 29th home runs.
The night started with a jolt for Houston’s ace. Hunter Brown allowed a solo homer in the first inning to Rays third baseman Junior Caminero. who now has 11 homers in his past 11 games. That made Caminero one home run behind Alvarez—but the Astros’ own power answered quickly. Alvarez crushed a two-run homer in the bottom of the first for his 28th home run of the season.
Even with that, the lead didn’t belong to the Astros for long. Richie Palacios answered with a two-run homer in the second inning to put the Rays up 3-2.
Brown’s outing didn’t settle into control either. The Rays scored seven runs against Brown in his four wobbly innings to build a 7-2 advantage. Then Houston began chipping away in the exact places that mattered.
Yainer Diaz hit a two-run homer in the fourth to bring the Astros closer. In the seventh, they scored three times to make it 8-8, and the sequence felt like it kept pulling momentum forward—staying alive long enough for Alvarez to finish it.
The tying run came on a sac fly by Alvarez. Isaac Paredes followed with an RBI single, and then a game-tilting pinch-hit single by Zach Dezenzo evened things up. Dezenzo had been called up earlier Saturday.
By the time the ninth arrived, Houston had already swallowed a 7-2 deficit and rebuilt the game from the ground up. Alvarez had provided the thunder, and in the end, he did it again—sending the Astros to a 10-8 come-from-behind win with a walk-off shot off Casey Legumina.
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