Astros beat Royals to lead best-of-five series 2-1

This Sunday evening there is more baseball action on its way as the Royals face off their host – the Astros at the Minute Maid Park in the city of Houston at 4 pm ET this is Houston´s return to home field for the first time since September 27th, 2015. “I don’t view myself as a young kid when I go out there”, he said.

Keuchel, who shut down the Yankees in the AL wild-card game, worked out of jam after jam, allowing five hits and one run with seven strikeouts after going 15-0 at home this season, a modern major league record.

“It was definitely huge and in the moment I was definitely pumped up”. He said it’s crucial that if a ball is hit there that once Lorenzo Cain feels the warning track he needs to lift his knees higher to account for the hill so he doesn’t fall down or injure himself. Ventura settled down to retire the next three batters, but Rasmus and Evan Gattis provided RBI groundouts to give Houston a 2-0 lead.

That was two innings after he drew a bases-loaded walk.

A three-year letterwinner for Arkansas, Keuchel went 9-3 with a 3.92 ERA for the Razorbacks in 2009. “If he catches fire, we’re real unsafe”. Kansas City’s relief corps was simply better, preserving the first win by a home team this postseason.

Game two was seen as a contest Kansas City had to have, especially with the first two games having being at home.

Game 3 came a week after the Rangers clinched the AL West title on the final day of the regular season, in their third chance to do so. “This is not new to this ballclub”, manager Jeff Banister said. “We had the momentum going”. He picked up a no-decision against Houston on July 1 when he allowed five runs and eight hits in five innings.

Holland (4-3) starts Game 4 against knuckleballer R.A. Dickey (11-11). Luis Valbuena drew a walk with one out in the fifth and Carter followed with the team’s second hit, a liner to the left-field corner for a double. Davis snapped a toss that first baseman Eric Hosmer perfectly caught on one jump as Gomez made a plunge back to the pack – Gomez was at first administered safe, yet the call was upset upon audit. S.Perez walked on a full count.

“He had not found the barrel until that point”, Banister said.

But the Royals have a glaring weakness in the rotation, one Johnny Cueto was supposed to fill when he joined the club before the trade deadline.

Tulowitzki was a career.

With Estrada on the mound, Dioner Navarro was the Blue Jays starting catcher instead of playoff veteran Russell Martin. He put three of the four in play, with each netting a base hit. Astros 2, Royals 1.

“He’s a big part of why we’re here, and what he was able to do for us was huge”, Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas said.

Odor made a backhanded catch with his glove just off the ground on Ben Revere’s broken-bat soft liner, then doubled off Kevin Pillar, who had broken home to end the fifth. “But you have to do anything you can to kind of slow it down and just enjoy the game, and not get stuck on, I guess, the stage or who you’re playing, stuff like that”.