He has also been considerably less impressive on the road this season, compared to at home. The Astros were 33-48 away from Minute Maid Park, the worst road record in the AL. The game starts at 8 pm ET from Yankee Stadium and has Masahiro Tanaka taking on Dallas Keuchel for the one-game playoff to see who advances to play the Royals in the ALDS.
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The game stands to be historic regardless of the result.
Tonight’s ballgame will be broadcasted live on local sports channel ESPN.
After an end-of-the-season run that was more mess than organized chaos, the Houston Astros and New York Yankees will square off in a must-win battle for the AL Wild Card on Tuesday night.
Graig Ehrensberger “Yeah, with Keukel pitching for us, I think we have a pretty good shot.” said Graig Ehrensberger, an Astros fan dining at Kenny and Ziggy’s Deli near The Galleria. Will Curt Schilling’s favorite dancers Mystique and Aura show up and cause the Astros trouble? Rodriguez, therefore, really needs to produce for the Yankees to win this game.
The Astros comprise of powerful hitters that could eventually overwhelm the defense fo the Yankees.
On the Yankees side of the Wild Card, this is their first playoff appearance since they were swept by the Detroit Tigers in the 2013 ALCS.
There is no question, though, that Houston wouldn’t have made the postseason for the first time since 2005 without the right-handed pitcher. He played only two more games before being shut down for the season after a fracture was discovered. “It’s been pressure for two weeks here”, A-Rod said. “Obviously not the most important thing in the world”.
Yankees (9): “The Yankees opened the regular season with a mountain of questions and they ended it the same way”. 200 in his last four. They often bat 1-2 and are counted on to get on base. Alex Rodriguez’s 2015 season has been one of baseball’s biggest surprises, but now we’re back to an old A-Rod meme: Can he step up in the postseason? In nine career at-bats versus Keuchel, Beltran has a. 444 average with one home run, two RBI and one walk.
The Astros, despite winning six of their last eight, have also appeared vulnerable at times down the stretch. If the Yankees are up, say, 3-1 heading into the seventh, they can go from Tanaka to a Severino/Betances/Miller combo that should take them home. As far as “biggest game of his career” goes, the same should be said about Dallas Keuchel.
It may not matter how much rest Keuchel has if the Yankees can’t hit, anyway. And, just maybe, geography.
Pazos got the lefty opening created when CC Sabathia left the team this week to enter an alcohol rehabilitation center.
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Despite all the talk of a playoff reset for the struggling lineup, New York went bust against a new nemesis in its first postseason game of the post-Derek Jeter era. Houston’s staff topped the AL with a 3.57 ERA. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
