Altuve knocks out Yankees ... on scoreboard with line-drive double
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HOUSTON -- Take that, Yordan.
Three days after Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez knocked out the scoreboard at Tropicana Field during batting practice, teammate Jose Altuve did him one better. Altuve drilled a line drive in the third inning of Friday¡¯s 5-4 loss to the White Sox that went into the scoreboard, which is believed to be the first time that¡¯s happened in Minute Maid Park¡¯s 25-year history.
That¡¯s right, Altuve¡¯s line drive off the bat of White Sox starter Garrett Crochet was rocketed at 108.4 mph and knocked out a linescore digit on the manual out-of-town scoreboard in left field. The ball struck the number 0 in the fourth inning of the line score of the Yankees' game against the Tigers and disappeared behind the scoreboard.
Altuve was awarded a ground-rule double and later scored on a bloop single by Alvarez, who joked postgame Tuesday that he wasn¡¯t going to foot the bill for knocking the Tropicana Field scoreboard offline. On Friday, a scoreboard worker at Minute Maid Park retrieved Altuve¡¯s ball and held it up through the hole in the board replacing the number.
Even when he¡¯s not playing the Bronx Bombers, Altuve is still taking shots at the Yankees.