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Jose Carlos Altuve (Spanish pronunciation:; born May 6, 1990) is a Venezuelan professional baseball second baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). Having played for the Astros since 2011, he is the longest-tenured current member of the team, and the only one to have been with the Astros since they were in the National League.
Jose Altuve hit a tiebreaking single in a four-run seventh inning, Yordan Alvarez homered for the third straight game and the Houston Astros beat the Toronto Blue Jays 9-2 on Wednesday night for ...
The 5-foot-6 Altuve, playing in his 101st postseason game for Houston, then pulled an 0-1 changeup over the left-field fence, just beyond the glove of a leaping Evan Carter. “Emotions are high ...
When Altuve debuted in 2011, the team lost 106 games. When he was named to his first All-Star Game the following year, they lost 107. A year after that, 111 losses.
Game 4 marked Jose Altuve playing his 100th career postseason game, the seventh player in Major League history to do so. [22] José Urquidy was matched against Andrew Heaney, but neither would reach the fourth inning. In the top of the first inning, Alex Bregman tripled off Andrew Heaney to score Jose Altuve and Mauricio Dubón.
The largest deficit by which the Astros trailed in the AL West was 10 games on June 18, when their record was 33–40. [2] Following a seven-game winning streak, on June 26, the Astros claimed their 40th win to reach .500 for the first time on the season. [3] Jose Altuve, Yordan Alvarez, and Kyle Tucker were each named to the AL All-Star team.
In the first inning on July 14, Jose Altuve left the game after being hit by the first pitch from Reid Detmers. The next three Houston batters also reached base, who took a 2–0 lead on a Kyle Tucker single. In the tenth inning, Jeremy Peña's single scored automatic runner Korey Lee for a 3–2 score.
Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman also got hot. Yainer Díaz proved himself a truly special hitter. Yordan Álvarez kept taking people’s lunch money. ... Despite winning 10 fewer games than last ...