Alvarez Carries Houston’s Offense![\"Houston](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01knhsq5be34ejyn0zbj.jpg\" "\\"Houston")
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Houston Astros designated hitter Yordan Alvarez | Erik Williams-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
The comeback return of Alvarez was highly anticipated by fans<\/a>, but it was unclear if he’d be able to bounce back to the player fans once knew him to be. Needless to say, he’s been exceeding expectations across the board. <\/p>\n In his 10 game appearances thus far, he is slashed .400\/.578\/.900 with a jaw-dropping 1.478 OPS and four home runs, reeling in 10 RBIs along the way. <\/p>\n Alongside the stunning offensive performances posted by Alvarez, Jose Altuve and Christian Walker have also been leading the pack. Altuve is carrying a slash line of .344\/.523\/.594 with a 1.117 OPS and two homers, while Walker is slashing .324\/.405\/.649 with a 1.054 OPS and another set of two homers. <\/p>\n This is particularly true for Alvarez, but if this trio of hitters can keep driving up the momentum and smacking homers, the Astros could end up making a deep run in the postseason.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m just trying to hit my pitch instead of just swinging at everything,” Altuve stated, per Brian McTaggart of MLB.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n “I\u2019m just focusing on getting a good pitch, and we know we got good hitters on this team. I\u2019m not trying to make a big swing, I\u2019m just trying to get my pitch. If not, I\u2019ll go to first for the guys behind me.\u201d<\/p>\n Houston Astros designated hitter Yordan Alvarez (44) motions towards the dugout after hitting a home run. | Troy Taormina-Imagn Images<\/p>\n This is a new yet promising approach to offense for Houston, and it’s clearly working out well in their favor. Things could always take a sour turn as the season continues to play out, but as of right now, the Astros are in a solid position toward the start of their 2026 campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n Houston’s next matchup is on the board for Monday at 8:40 p.m. ET against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s still incredibly early in the season, but the Houston Astros are showing glaring signs of making a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,3211,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-667531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-astros","12":"tag-houstonastros","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116361247062699210","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Yordan](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01knhy3thaqta23ghcz5.jpg\" "\\"Yordan")
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