page_title: Pedro Álvarez (baseball)
section_title: 2012
hierarchical_section_title: Pedro Álvarez (baseball) / Professional career / Pittsburgh Pirates / 2012
caption_attribution_description: Pedro Álvarez
context_page_description: Pedro Manuel Álvarez Jr. is a Dominican-American professional baseball designated hitter and infielder who is a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles.
  Álvarez stands 6 feet 3 inches and weighs 250 pounds. A third baseman until late 2014, Alvarez transitioned to first base for the Pirates in 2015, and in 2016 became a designated hitter for the Orioles. On June 19, 2018, he was designated for assignment by the Orioles.
context_section_description: Álvarez decided not to spend the 2011–12 offseason playing winter league ball. After the first nine games of the 2012 season, he struck out 13 times in his first 27 at-bats. In an interleague series against the Cleveland Indians, Álvarez hit two home runs in back-to-back games on June 16 and 17, making him only the second Pirates' player with multi-home run games in back-to-back games since 1918, with Ralph Kiner being the other player. Álvarez hit a go-ahead home run in the 19th inning against the St. Louis Cardinals on August 19, the longest game in the majors to that point in the season and tied for the longest in terms of time at 6 hours, 7 minutes. Álvarez hit a 469-ft home run, the longest hit by a Pittsburgh Pirate in the history of PNC Park at the time, in a two home run game against the St. Louis Cardinals on August 28. For the season, he batted .244/.317/.467, was second in the National League with 180 strikeouts, and led all NL players with 27 errors at third base.
caption: Álvarez with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2012
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