30 strikeouts in two games for the Bronx Bombers 😬.
Our MLB insiders Bob Nightengale and Steve Gardner get you ready for the ALCS between the Yankees and Astros.HOUSTON – Off the bat, Aaron Judge’s eighth-inning drive appeared to be on a home run trajectory.
and giving Houston a two games-to-none advantage in the best-of-seven American League Championship Series. That gave the Yanks runners at second and third with one out, with Anthony Rizzo and Gleyber Torres cutting Houston’s lead to 3-2. With two outs and ahead of Bregman 1-2, Severino followed a good change-up – getting a swing and miss – with a 97-mph fastball that neither Severino nor Higashioka felt was a terribly located pitch.
Leading off the first inning, Altuve had a single stolen by Yankees rookie shortstop Oswald Peraza with a field-and-spin move of a grounder ticketed to left field. A male fan in an Astros jersey made it onto the field and hugged Altuve at second base for an uncomfortably long moment before five uniformed personnel eventually pulled him away, got the guy on the ground and escorted the reluctant man off the field.Would you have lifted Higashioka for a pinch-hitter in the seventh, against Valdez?
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