HOUSTON -- Whether it’s his mindset, bat-to-balls skills or ability to cover the entire plate with his swing, Astros first baseman
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Gurriel, who [won Friday’s game](https://www.mlb.com/astros/news/yuli-gurriel-homers-for-walk-off-win \"undefined\") with a walk-off homer in the 10th, is the first Astros player since Geoff Blum in '09 to have walk-off hits in consecutive games.\n\n“I like being in tense situations and feel like I focus even more,” Gurriel said. “I’m not scared to fail and I always have a positive mindset in these situations.”\n\nAfter Brantley began the 10th with a leadoff single against Mariners closer Roenis Elias, who was working his second inning, Gurriel hit an 87-mph changeup on a line and into the gap in right-center field to easily score Brantley and improve the Astros to 6-1 in extra innings.
\n\n“When the game’s on the line, you just have a good feeling, a hitterish vibe to him that he’s going to get a good pitch to hit and he’s going to hit it hard,” Astros manager AJ Hinch said. “Now, what’s going to happen, who knows? The homer yesterday and the oppo double today to walk us off is an example of his experience. He’s very good at what he does, and was operating basically on one leg. It was an incredible at-bat.”\n\nThe hit came with Gurriel playing on a sore right ankle suffered in the seventh inning when he tried to beat out an infield and stepped awkwardly across first base. He was called safe, but the call was overturned when replay showed he didn’t touch the base. Still, Hinch wanted to keep Gurriel in the game for a possible matchup against the Mariners’ left-handed closer.
“That was very much an advantage for us to keep him in the game,” he said. “He said he felt fine. He’ll get the day off \\[Sunday\\] based on how he was moving at the end of the game.”\n\nGurriel joked that teammate Jose Altuve called both the home run on Friday and the game-winning double on Saturday.\n\n“Let’s see what he announces tomorrow,” Gurriel joked.\n\nAfter watching Gurriel beat his team twice in a span of 24 hours, Mariners manager Scott Servais knows too well how dangerous the 36-year-old is in clutch spots.\n\n\"He’s not going to miss pitches like that that are up,” Servais said. “He put a good swing on it. You just hope \\[center fielder\\] Mallex \\[Smith\\] can run it down, but he just wasn’t able to get there.”\n\nAstros starter