Yordan Alvarez left Friday’s game in the fifth inning due to shortness of breath, and went to a local hospital for examination later that evening. Both the Astros and manager Dusty Baker addressed the situation today, saying that Alvarez was released from hospital after tests revealed nothing abnormal, and the slugger was even back at the ballpark today, though he wasn’t in the starting lineup for the Astros’ game against the Braves.
Baker even suggested that Alvarez could play on Sunday, though “We still have to watch him. He’s still under (something) similar to a concussion protocol,” the manager told The Houston Chronicle’s Chandler Rome and other reporters. “You don’t want him to maybe fall out. They couldn’t find anything, but that don’t mean nothing’s wrong. We’re just going to wait today, see how he is tomorrow.”
Any sort of breathing issue is naturally cause for concern, though it is a very good sign that Alvarez’s initial round of testing and observation didn’t reveal any more serious problem. It could be that Alvarez was affected by playing in Atlanta in particular, with Baker noting that there is more smoke than usual in the atmosphere due to Truist Park’s tradition of shooting fireworks every time a Braves player homers, or every time a Braves pitcher records a strikeout.
Alvarez is also working through his first real slump of the 2022 season, as he has only one home run and a .572 OPS over his last 78 plate appearances. However, even with his cold streak, Alvarez is still batting .295/.400/.612 for the season, and his 31 homers ties him for the third-highest total in baseball. The season has cemented Alvarez as one of the game’s top hitters, and he will be a major factor for the Astros as they try to capture the World Series.
He got ringworm, bro. I got the cure.
-FERNANDO TATIS
Lmao
Wow, I wonder what happened
Something caused the shortness of breath
However, I am happy to read all is Good
Isn’t inhalers like Ventolin banned under PED rules? Wonder if it was just an asthma attack maybe due to allergies or something. Also it can be humid as hell in Atlanta with no roof on that stadium.
He could get a “therapeutic use” exemption similar to what Chris Davis did for Adderall. Only thing is he has to renew it every year which Davis failed to do.
@Rsox, good point. That said maybe he already has a “therapeutic use” exemption and the approved therapy may now no longer be working. I hope this is not the case. Wouldn’t be the first pro athlete to have something like asthma and getting banned substance help approved. But if so, could he get a new/modified “in season” league therapy exemption… and how long would that process take?
I don’t understand the usage of quotation marks in Rsox’s and C Yards’ comments.
@gbs; geez, don’t sugar coat it. Say what you really mean. LOL
Not only am I an amatuer GM in my thoughts, but definitely amatuer hour for me when comes to forming grammatically correct sentence structure. I’ll try and clean this up from here out for ya.
A question for you @gbs. Are you saying because of the quotations, the content is difficult to understand? If so, my apologies. But if not, care to share your take?
C Yards’,
It’s not about grammar, it’s about intent. I inferred from the quotation marks around “therapeutic use” that one or both of you are questioning whether such an exemption is legit, that Alvarez and Davis were skirting the rules to get an advantage.
If I’m wrong, okay. If that was the intent, then I’d like evidence to support that stance.
@gbs: gotcha. Geez, poor form on my part. I do fully support a player who has a need in this way.
I posted because I didn’t want what happened to CD happen to him. How CD, with (team, league, his agent and player union) folks all available to advise, still did what he did. Because he did this, the Os did not have him for the playoffs that year. The Strohs don’t need this … and … as the Padres didn’t with Tatis, Jr.
Dude plays in Houston and grew up in Cuba, humidity should not be an issue for him.
Yea Cuba and places in the Caribbean are actually very nice and not very humid along the coast line. I don’t know where the guy grew up in Cuba and Houston has a closable roof on their stadium so he plays a lot in Air Conditioning now a days.
I’ve been to a few Caribbean islands and live in Houston. Humidity hits you the minute you walk outside. It is almost unbearable compared to the hotter, but drier air for a place like Arizona.
I was thinking asthma or some form of allergy.
Fireworks for every strikeout? Good grief.
Even for non-k foul tips apparently. How long has atl done this?
I wasn’t aware they did it for every strikeout. That’s ridiculous. You would think that even the fans would grow tired of that.
I used to think it was nutty when the Angels shot off fireworks after home runs and the field was covered in smoke that the players and fans had to inhale. But after every strikeout? Gotta wonder if somebody in the Braves’ front office cut a sweetheart deal with the fireworks vendor.
Yeah that’s stupid.
He can get a medical exemption… of course he has to go thru proper channels and have to diagnose him with something… seems like for now just an isolated incident due to excess smoke
I’m just glad he seems to be ok.
The vaccine is killing athletes and young people all over the world and people shrug it off and act like it something else that caused the deaths and injuries. One day the truth will come out hopefully. But the left doesn’t care about lives. They made tons of money on the jab.
lol
Alvarez is such a good player, let’s hope that this is a isolated incident and he is back to full health very soon. MLB is better when he’s on the field.
Fireworks for every strikeout is overkill indeed.
Maybe an anxiety/panic attack.
The good news is that Yordan is back in the lineup for today’s game. He’s DH’ing so maybe he can hide in the clubhouse when the fireworks go off. Or maybe his teammates can avoid striking out and giving up home runs for one game…..
Can he still operate a trash can?
Why do you need help with your job?