Yordan Alvarez With Another Postseason First

For the second straight game, Houston Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez has set an all-time playoff first. 

In Game 2 of the Astros-Seattle Mariners ALDS, he became the first player in the history of baseball to hit a postseason walk-off home run one night and then another game-winning HR the following game. 

Before today, nobody in baseball history had hit more than one go-ahead homer while trailing in the sixth inning or later of a postseason game, per @ESPNStatsInfo. Now, Yordan Álvarez has done it twice in two games.

Very simply, he's the one of the best hitters on the planet.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 13, 2022

His 2-run blast in the bottom of the 6th gave the Astros a 3-2 lead, and once again left the Seattle Mariners reeling.

In fact, after that, Mariners manager Scott Servais had seen enough, and intentionally walked Alvarez his next time up, in the bottom of the 8th. That ended up coming back to haunt them as well, as Alex Bergman came up and drove in an insurance run. 

This comes just two days after Alvarez broke the M's hearts with his walk-off HR in the bottom of the 9th in Game 1. 

Yordan Álvarez's last 24 Postseason games, dating back to the 2019 World Series 📊

.355/.474/.632
11 XBH
16 RBI
17 Runs@astros | #LevelUp | #Postseason pic.twitter.com/l4dagLK8Kb

— MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) October 13, 2022

In his last 24 postseason games (2019-2022), Air Yordan is hitting .355 with a .4747 on-base percentage, and a 1.106 OPS. 

He is simply one of the best hitters in baseball. Period.