Jose Altuve homered in his first 3 at-bats for the Houston Astros in opposition to the Texas Rangers on Tuesday evening, settingup with a couple off Nathan Eovaldi within the All-Famous person right-hander’s go back from the injured listing.

Houston’s celebrity 2d baseman greeted Eovaldi with a leadoff homer, upcoming ended his day trip with a one-out homer in the second one.

Altuve’s 3rd homer — and fifteenth of the season — got here within the 3rd off Dane Dunning, a starter who got here out of the bullpen so the Rangers may get Eovaldi his first get started since July 18. Eovaldi have been sidelined through a valid forearm pressure.

Altuve had homered in 4 consecutive at-bats going again to Houston’s 13-6 win within the sequence opener Monday. The run ended with a groundout in opposition to Dunning within the 5th.

Altuve homered two times within the sequence opener, giving him consecutive multi-homer video games for the primary life in his occupation.

Altuve is the primary Houston participant with consecutive multi-homer video games since Richard Hidalgo in 2000.

The Astros had back-to-back homers from the Negative. 9 and leadoff hitters two times within the sequence opener with Mauricio Dubón and Altuve.

They did it once more Wednesday with Martín Maldonado homering from the base of the layout within the 3rd, adopted through Altuve for a 9-0 govern. Houston scored 3 runs in each and every of the primary 3 innings.

Reporting through The Related Press.

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