Astros' Alvarez sprains ankle crossing home plate

HOUSTON -- Astros All-Star near fielder Yordan Alvarez near Monday's 6-3 win against the Texas Rangers due to the fact that of a sprained near ankle.

Alvarez 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 a trainer extracurricular the Astros' dugout and past helped down the steps.

Zachary Cole entered the crippled successful close tract successful the 2nd inning, with Jesus Sanchez moving to left.

The squad announced the wounded a mates of innings aft Alvarez near the game.

Alvarez entered Monday's crippled batting .273 with six location runs and 27 RBIs but has been constricted to 47 games due to the fact that of a fractured close manus that forced him to beryllium retired 101 games.

The Astros clasp a three-game pb implicit the Rangers for the American League's last wild-card spot.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.