Yankees face Houston in AL Wild Card matchup

Unfortunately he didn’t get to put up a scoreless outing for his last start this season. Solving Keuchel is no easy task. The Yankees are getting old and looking a little worn.

This seems like a convenient place to start.

“We do believe that we can advance”.

Kershaw (16-7, 2.13 ERA) tuned up Sunday by fanning seven against San Diego, giving him 301 strikeouts. He’s not even in the same division. With Keuchel on the mound the Astros are considered to be a slight favorite to move on to the Division Round and take on the top seeded Kansas City Royals. How much does this tell us going into tonight? We knew that already.

Keuchel did pitch Friday against the Diamondbacks. “His slider has developed into a plus pitch”.

“I wasn’t pitching particularly well at that time”, Tanaka said. My opposite number is a quality pitcher. It took a wild first inning vs. Gil Heredia and six innings of bullpen magic, featuring Mo being Mo and an appearance by El Duque, to close the deal in game five. Bob Nightengale from USA Today was in Phoenix yesterday as the Astros clinched their wild card berth and made it clear that they expect to beat the Yankees on Tuesday.

If you’re tuning in to your first Astros… MLB is one of the few major sports leagues that doesn’t have a salary cap, volumizing concerns about league parity when teams like the Yankees, Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers wield seemingly blank checkbooks.

Then the outfielder from New Britain and UConn hit a couple of ground balls and threw his bat down, laughing. 187 with an. 077 ISO against Keuchel this year.

In his second big-league start, Keuchel threw a… That would be a problem.

They also have a ton of playoff experience, and are playing at home. He’s staring at the base-runner at first base the entire time.

The storied Yankees were also a bit of a surprise; not much was expected from an aging roster with pitching questions the year after Derek Jeter hung up his spikes. That’s nothing. Teams don’t run on him. 326 with an. 837 slugging percentage and six homers and 12 RBIs in his last 15 games. He was successful all three times.

The best case scenario for Major League Baseball playoff teams would be to have starters do what C.C. Sabathia did in the 2009 postseason for the Yankees.

As hard as this decision is to share, I don’t want to run and hide. “Not in professional ball, but I did it in college with the College World Series in Omaha”.

The big news for tonight isn’t actually about the teams on the field though. He’s eligible for arbitration after this year where he’ll get a big raise, and the Astros are sure to try to lock the 27-year-old up to a big contract soon. But at this point in time, the routine is there. “I can understand if he’s frustrated and upset, but he’ll be ready to go”. After a bad month of August, Young was back to being a lefty menace after September 1, hitting.344/.436/.469 against lefties through the end of the season. Wildness and reduced velocity would be one way, but that’s about it as far as the eye test goes.

“Look, we haven’t swung the bats well in a while now”, Rodriguez said. That’ll be the best indication. Now thebetting odds for the game have the Astros favored on the road to pick up the win. He’s a bonafide ace with unconventional methods.

Hey, New York, while you were following the Mets and the Yankees on their respective marches and/or stumbles to the postseason, the Houston Astros were making their own quest for their first postseason bid since 2005.

And, as the Boston Globe reported, they were a sight to see.