Houston skipper Dusty Baker, who managed Servais while with the Giants, refused to second-guess his former player. I looked at it in the seventh inning and said, hey, this could happen. “But we talked about it coming into the series. “You know, bringing in a lefty against Alvarez, although Alvarez is one of the better hitters in the league.” “It was something going into the series where we were at, looking at our rotation, where we were going to head, and talking with Robbie about using him out of the bullpen as a bullet, so to speak, for that type of scenario,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said. Down to their last out, the October-tested Houston Astros weren’t so easily outmatched.Īlvarez smashed a game-ending, three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning off Robbie Ray, foiling the Mariners’ move to use a Cy Young Award winner in a rare relief role and vaulting the Astros to an 8-7 win in their playoff opener.
The Mariners came to the postseason with a plan.
HOUSTON - Yordan Alvarez wrecked all of Seattle’s carefully crafted strategy with one colossal swing.
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