Altuve is batting just .253, with a .303 on-base percentage and .376 slugging. He's also been awful in left field. Altuve's bad fielding and underwhelming hitting have actually made him rate statistically as worse than a replacement-level player.

Jose Altuve had the 12th multi-homer game of his career to spark Houston over Seattle in a match atop AL West.

Christian Walker and Jeremy Peña had two hits apiece and the Houston Astros scored two runs in the first on errors by Seattle and held on for a 2-1 win over the Mariners.