Alvarez hospitalized during game

Astros left fielder Yordan Alvarez was taken to a hospital during Friday night’s game against the Braves because of shortness of breath that was exacerbated by the Braves’ in-game fireworks, Astros manager Dusty Baker said. Alvarez departed the game under his own power with two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning. There was a pause in the action when Braves rookie Vaughn Grissom fouled a ball off his foot and was being tended to by a trainer. That’s when Alvarez, who is batting .295 with 31 homers and 77 RBIs, made his break for the Astros’ dugout. “He’s being analyzed by the doctors,” Baker said. “They said all his vitals are good. He’s feeling normal but he still has to see our doctor. He was just, he had shortness of breath, and then when they shot the fireworks off, the smoke kind of made it worse. I’m glad we got him out when we did because I looked up and he was in the dugout and it was kind of a scary moment because it could be anything, but they said he’s doing fine at the moment.” Baker said no one in the Astros’ dugout knew Alvarez was in any distress.