"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.