Houston Astros Surprises New York Yankees With a Sudden Win

Madras native Jacoby Ellsbury, signed to a $153 million contract by the Yankees less than two years ago, was left out of New York’s starting lineup for Tuesday night’s 3-0 loss to Houston in the American League wild-card game.

“Though the Yankees stood by their teammate, expressing their support, it could not have been comforting for Manager Joe Girardi, who takes extra care in tamping down any issue that might be viewed as a distraction”, the New York Times wrote.

As these two teams have fought all year against one another, Wednesday night will be the more of the same. “Guys are beat up”, Girardi said. Since his trade from the Brewers, Gomez has hit just.242/.288/.383 with four homers and ten stolen bases. “I didn’t want him to get hurt before his Yankee Stadium debut”.

After all that losing, this was one October win to remember.

The three runs were enough for Keuchel, who hasn’t allowed a run in his last 29 innings against the Yankees.

Impending free agent outfielder Colby Rasmus provided the first burst of offense for the Astros in the top of the second inning with a leadoff homer against Masahiro Tanaka. During the season series the Astros held the slight edge, winning 4-3. His 3.77 ERA on the road compared to 1.46 at home gave the Yankees a few confidence coming into the game. The job he’s done throughout his career at Yankee Stadium, I just tried to calm myself down and make as good a pitch as I could.

Swihart hit a three-run home run with one out in the first off Yankees right-hander Michael Pineda (12-9) to cap a six-run inning. “I thought we executed our plan early, but he didn’t give us anything where we wanted it, so eventually we had to start swinging”. You’ll need the log-in and password for a cable subscription – either yours or someone else’s – to access the stream. He did not get a chance to pitch this postseason. He struck out Bird on a full count and retired second baseman Rob Refsnyder on an easy flyout. “He pitched a great game”. Among the players swept by Detroit in the 2012 AL Championship Series, only two appeared against the Astros: center fielder Brett Gardner and designated hitter Alex Rodriguez.

“I threw the ball the way I knew I could throw it”, he said. “We just kind of hit a wall at the end of the year”.

Carlos Beltran would then single before Keuchel got out of the inning.

And so, the Yankees season comes to a bitter end on their own field, but whether one may think the team overachieved or underachieved, the skipper can look back on 2015 in the immediate aftermath and know more went right than not. However, If it comes down to game five, it will be a tough game for the Astros as they will most likely not have their ace Dallas Keuchel on the mound as he is scheduled to go game three and he will only have two days’ rest going into game five. “Physically it’s not a very healthy group in there, but they never stopped playing hard and giving me everything they had – so I’m extremely proud of that group in there”.