CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Houston slugger Yordan Alvarez left Saturday’s 3-0 win over the Chicago Cubs in the middle of an at-bat in the sixth inning because of a back spasm and will miss the series finale as the Astros try for a sweep.<\/p>\n
Alvarez said through a translator he experienced tightness in right scapula, or shoulder blade, earlier in the day and \u201cdidn’t give it time to go away.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was going through my routine before going to hit,\u201d Alvarez said. \u201cI was lifting some weights and felt that the scapula felt a little tight and I couldn’t really raise my right arm a whole lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
After fouling off a pitch from Colin Rea and falling behind 0-2 in the count in the sixth, Alvarez appeared to be in discomfort. Manager Joe Espada sent Zach Dezenzo to pinch hit, and Dezenzo struck out on the next pitch.<\/p>\n
“Espada came up to me and took me out of the game just to give it some rest and not make it worse,” Alvarez said. \u201cSo I just followed his direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
The three-time All-Star said Espada planned to give him Sunday off before the injury surfaced. Alvarez is batting .300 with 15 homers and 31 RBIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Houston slugger Yordan Alvarez left Saturday’s 3-0 win over the Chicago Cubs in the middle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,158,161,88856,5918,4,9501,9496,15187,9499,2264,453],"class_list":["post-707183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-colin-rea","tag-cubs","tag-houston-astros-yordan-alvarez","tag-joe-espada","tag-mlb","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-yordan-alvarez","tag-zach-dezenzo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116627653504171069","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707183","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=707183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}