Astros level up! 🔥⚾ Houston Astros take Game 1 of ALDS with walk-off three-run homer by Yordan Alvarez!!!! Let's GOOOOOOOOOO!
The no-doubt drive was the first walk-off homer in postseason history with a team trailing by multiple runs. And it was just the second walk-off homer with team down to its final out — the other was Kirk Gibson's startling shot that lifted the Dodgers over the A's in the 1988 World Series opener.
Alvarez, who hit 37 homers in the regular season, turned around Servais' plan by launching Ray's second pitch into the seats in right field to set off a wild celebration withThe Mariners, back in the playoffs this year for the first time since 2001, were on the wrong end of a big comeback this time after rallying from a seven-run deficit in Game 2 to sweep their wild-card series with Toronto.
Alvarez had a two-run double in the third to get Houston’s offense going a bit before it really took off in the final two innings. Verlander followed up his remarkable comeback season after missing almost two full seasons after Tommy John surgery with a flop in the worst postseason performance of his storied career.
Instead, the Mariners hit almost everything he threw in what was his 32nd playoff game. By the time he trudged off the mound mumbling something to himself after just four innings he’d given up a playoff career-high 10 hits with six earned runs, which tied his most in a postseason game.Rodríguez tripled, doubled and scored three times and Ty France had three hits.
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