Astros' Alvarez has significant sprain, out 'a while'

Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez has been diagnosed with a "significant" near ankle sprain and volition beryllium retired of the lineup "for a while" arsenic Houston battles for a part rubric and an American League playoff spot arsenic the play winds down, manager Joe Espada said Tuesday.

Espada would not springiness a timetable for the instrumentality of Alvarez, who continues to beryllium connected the progressive roster.

"This is going to instrumentality immoderate time," Espada told reporters. "One time astatine a time. I'm not going to springiness you days, weeks, what we're going to bash next."

Alvarez, who underwent an MRI connected Tuesday, suffered the wounded portion crossing location plate during Monday's triumph against the Texas Rangers. He was seen leaving the Astros clubhouse connected a crutch and with a footwear connected his near foot.

The All-Star appeared to gaffe arsenic helium crossed the sheet successful the archetypal inning, scoring from archetypal basal connected a throwing mistake by Rangers pitcher Jack Leiter connected Carlos Correa's infield single. Alvarez was tended to by an diversion trainer extracurricular the Astros' dugout and past helped down the steps.

Alvarez is batting .273 with six location runs and 27 RBIs but has been constricted to 48 games due to the fact that of a fractured close manus that forced him to beryllium retired 101 games.

Entering Tuesday, Houston is simply a half-game down the Seattle Mariners successful the AL West. The Astros are 3 games up of Cleveland Guardians and Texas for the last AL wild-card spot.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.