2B Jose Altuve finished 2-for-4 with a solo home run for his fourth multi-hit game in his last six starts on Friday. Altuve leads the American League with 50 multi-hit games and joins Jose Cruz (five) and Craig Biggio (six) as the only players in franchise history with at least five seasons with 50-plus multi-hit games.

2B Jose Altuve recorded his American League-leading 49th multi-hit game by finishing 2-for-4 with an RBI. Altuve is 26-for-52 in interleague play this season, tops in the majors. His average ranks as the second-highest in interleague play since it began in 1997.

2B Jose Altuve was 2-for-4 with a walk and a run scored Tuesday, a day after the second three-strikeout game of his career against Arizona RHP Zack Greinke. "He wasn't picking up his pitches," Hinch said, "and Greinke can put the ball where he wants. It is a reminder that Jose is human."

2B Jose Altuve rarely has a night like this. The AL batting leader, with a .361 average, struck out in his first three at-bats Monday against Arizona ace Zack Greinke -- his first three-strikeout game since 2014 and the fifth of his career. The only other time he'd done it against a single pitcher was against Matt Cain -- during the Giants right-hander's perfect game on June 13, 2012.

2B Jose Altuve scored the game's first run with a solo homer in the fourth inning, one of the only two hits the Astros had through five innings. He leads the American League in hits with 162 and in multi-hit games with 47. In 56 road games this season, Altuve is batting .420.

2B Jose Altuve collected two hits in five at-bats on Thursday night and has recorded hit in four straight games, which marks the 10th time in his career he had strung together such a streak. In his last seven games, Altuve is hitting .423 (11-for26) and has recorded four multi-hit games, including Thursday night's.

2B Jose Altuve went 2-for-4 with a homer and an RBI on Tuesday against the Chicago White Sox. Altuve has 17 home runs this season and two in his last five games. He is hitting .365 on the season, and he leads the majors with 156 hits.

2B Jose Altuve registered his 44th multi-hit game of the season after finishing 3-for-5 with an RBI and two runs scored. His run-scoring single in the fifth inning tied him with Bob Aspromonte for 20th place in franchise history with 385 RBIs.

2B Jose Altuve snapped an 0-for-11 skid with his 20th three-hit game of the season. That total leads the majors. The last major leaguer to record 20 three-hit games in his team's first 108 games was Adrian Gonzalez in 2011. Altuve has more multi-hit games in his career (342) than hitless games (225).

2B Jose Altuve singled in his first two at-bats Monday night against the Rays and closed the month with a hit in 21 of 23 games, with 16 multi-hit games. Altuve batted .485 (48-for-99) with 21 RBIs, 22 runs, 10 doubles, and four home runs plus a 1.251 OPS in July. His average is a franchise best for any month.

2B Jose Altuve is drawing MVP talk for his fine season for Houston. Friday night he had a hand in three of the four innings in which the Astros scored during a 6-5 win over Detroit. He tripled and scored in the first, doubled to set up a run in the third and singled and scored on Josh Reddick's game-winning three-run home run in the eighth. "Altuve just continues to be Jose Altuve," manager A.J. Hinch said. "There's no other way to describe him other than he's in the elite category across the board. They pitch him away, he hits the ball off the right center field wall. They pitch him in he hits the ball down the line. He continues the inning to set up Reddick with the two singles. He's usually always in the middle of something that we're doing right."

2B Jose Altuve extended his career-best hitting streak to 18 games with a double in the first inning of Wednesday night's game. Altuve finished 2-for-4 and is now hitting .494 during 19 games in July.

2B Jose Altuve continued his scorching July on Tuesday night, extending his hitting streak to 17 games with a double to right in the sixth inning against the Phillies. He went 1-of-4 in the game, lowering his batting average in July to .494 (39-of-79). He's trying to become just the eighth player in MLB history to hit .500 in at least 80 plate appearances in a month -- Joe Jackson did it twice, in 1913 and 1916 -- and the first since Detroit's Ivan Rodriguez hit .500 in June 2004. Rodriguez and Colorado's Todd Helton (.512 in May 2000) are the only two to have accomplished the feat since 1927.

2B Jose Altuve continued to improve on his MLB-leading batting average and his impressive July, going 4-for-4 with two doubles, three RBIs and three runs scored as the Astros beat the Phillies 13-4 on Monday night. In 17 games this month, Altuve is batting .507 (38 of 75) with 19 RBIs and 19 runs scored, raising his average on the season to a scalding .365. "I think this is a really good team that deserves you to go and play 100 percent every day and that's what I'm trying to do, I'm not trying to waste my at-bats," he said.

2B Jose Altuve tied a career high with four hits, including a homer in the series finale Sunday against the Orioles. He also extended his hitting streak to a career-high 15 games. Altuve is batting .423 in six games against Baltimore this season.

2B Jose Altuve kept his hitting streak going Saturday. He singled in his first at-bat and extended his streak to 14 games, tying a career best. Altuve finished 2-for-5 and has a .352 average.

2B Jose Altuve singled in the third inning to extend his hitting streak to a season-high 12 games. It is tied for the third-longest streak of his career and is the longest active streak in the American League. Altuve is batting .445 over his last 27 games with 12 doubles, five home runs, 25 runs scored plus 20 RBIs with a 1.199 OPS.

2B Jose Altuve extended his hitting streak to 11 games and finished 3-for-4 with an RBI. It is his longest streak since June 18-29, 2016 and over his last 26 games, Altuve is batting .443 (47-for-106) with 12 doubles, five home runs, 25 runs and 20 RBIs.

2B Jose Altuve extended his hitting streak to nine games with a single in the first inning and finished 2-for-4 with a stolen base and a run scored. Altuve is batting .525 (21-for-40) with four doubles, three homers and 11 RBIs during the streak with a 1.428 OPS. With his 218th career steal, he surpassed Terry Puhl for sole possession of fifth place in franchise history.

2B Jose Altuve had his streak of multi-hit games snapped at six after going 1-for-4 with a solo home run. Altuve was hit by a pitch in the ninth inning, marking the third consecutive game an Astro was plunked by a pitch.