Astros want this participant to maintain up the tempo

The Houston Astros have been scuffling as of late, seeing their American League West Division lead shrink to 2 video games. They wanted certainly one of their large gamers to step up his recreation. 

Fortunately, he is been doing it fairly properly just lately. Coming onto a brand new workforce with an enormous free-agent contract in hand locations numerous stress on gamers. Perhaps that was a part of the issue for this Astros participant by means of the MLB season’s first few months.

However first baseman Christian Walker is displaying off lately. Walker, a three-time Gold Glove Award winner, has been choosing up the tempo within the batter’s field. He is hitting .238 with 16 dwelling runs and 61 RBI for the season, based on StatMuse.

In Wednesday’s 6-4 loss to the Miami Marlins, Walker linked for his sixteenth homer, a two-run blast over the left-field wall. He added one other hit later within the recreation, ending 2-for-2 together with his two RBI.