Alvarez's Fenway Showdown: Home Run Threat

0:00On May 1st, Jordan Alvarez is straight fire right now, leading Major League Baseball with 12 home runs through 32 games, tied with a couple other big bets. The Houston Astros slugger heads to Fenway Park this weekend for a 3-game series against the Red Sox, where he's got the best career on Base Plus, slugging and slugging percentage of any player with at least 50 played appearances. This season, he's slashing 0.356, 0.462, 0.737, with 27 RBIs, 21 walks and just 14 strikeouts. He started every game for the Astros and is on pace to shatter their single season home run record of 47, set back in 2000. Fans love comparing him to David Ortiz, that Hall of Famer, who crushed 541 homers, mostly with Boston. Alvarez pulls it to all fields, but Fenway's short 302-foot right field line makes him deadly there. He's hit safely in 13 of.

1:0015 games, including playoffs, with multiple homers in past visits. The Astros sit at 12 and 20, banged up with injuries to pitches like Hunter Brown and Josh Hader, plus shortstop Jeremy Pena. Alvarez has stayed healthy, becoming their lone bright spot after last year's injury plague finish that cost them the playoffs. Keep an eye on him this weekend. Fenway could see some balls flying out quick. That's your update from MLB News Today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with the story.