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Correa caps ‘best day off’ with clutch homer
- Updated: May 29, 2016
ANAHEIM — Because shortstop Carlos Correa is just 21, the day off manager A.J. Hinch planned Sunday for the 2015 American League Rookie of the Year winner was more for mental purposes than physical ones.
“The best day off I ever had,” Correa said, after his pinch-hit, three-run home run in the 13th inning propelled the Astros to an 8-6 victory over the Angels.
“A big home run like that could do wonders for him, down the line,” Hinch said.
Hinch had said in the morning that he wanted to stay away from using Correa in the afternoon game against the Angels. Correa had been struggling, with just four hits in his past 33 at-bats, dropping his average to .241. But the situation in the 13th was just too tempting for the Astros to pass up in a game that lasted 4 hours, 57 minutes.
“I actually thought about using him for as a runner earlier in that inning, with [Luis] Valbuena and [Tyler] White the first two hitters,” Hinch said. “I was going to use …
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