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Astros are lucky … to be this good
10/23/2022 5:40:00 AM Astros are lucky … to be this good
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Astros are lucky … to be this good The Astros — 5-0 winners Saturday night in The Bronx — were lucky enough to play a near-perfect game and outplay the Yankees in every facet. The Astros lucked their way to yet another victory in Game 3, and these lucky dogs are now only a win away from going to their fourth fortunate World Series in six serendipitous years.They’ve now beaten the Yankees three straight games in the ALCS and 8 of 10 times these two American League powerhouses have hooked up this year. The Astros won all six games they’ve played this postseason after somehow lucking their way to 106 wins in the regular season.And they’re one victory away from knocking the Yankees out of the postseason derby for the fourth time in eight years.The Astros — Read more:
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From Houston…… Yankees must be at their best to finally slay Astros 'dragon' The Astros lucked their way to yet another victory in Game 3, and these lucky dogs are now only a win away from going to their fourth fortunate World Series in six serendipitous years.beat the Yankees, 3-2, Thursday night, and their two best players have yet to be heard from.Email article HOUSTON, TEXAS - OCTOBER 20: Alex Bregman #2 of the Houston Astros celebrates with teammates after their 3-2 victory against the New York Yankees in game two of the American League Championship Series at Minute Maid Park on October 20, 2022 in Housto HOUSTON - HOUSTON (AP) — Alex Bregman hit an early three-run homer, Framber Valdez pitched seven strong innings and the stayed perfect in the playoffs, edging the New York Yankees 3-2 Thursday night to take a 2-0 lead in the AL Championship Series.of 93 Houston Astros players warm up before Game 2 of the American League Championship Series at Minute Maid Park on Thursday, Oct. They’ve now beaten the Yankees three straight games in the ALCS and 8 of 10 times these two American League powerhouses have hooked up this year. The Astros won all six games they’ve played this postseason after somehow lucking their way to 106 wins in the regular season. He sprinted onto the field just as Ryan Pressly was finishing his warm-up pitches in the top of the ninth, dashed straight to Altuve. And they’re one victory away from knocking the Yankees out of the postseason derby for the fourth time in eight years. We would like to get everybody hot before it’s over with," Astros manager Dusty Baker said. The Astros — 5-0 winners Saturday night in The Bronx — were lucky enough to play a near-perfect game and outplay the Yankees in every facet before a sold-out Yankee Stadium crowd. 7 Craig Biggio jersey. And also lucky to be playing a team with a team with no . Thanks to Bregman’s instant offense on Thursday night that’s become expected in the playoffs, the Astros clutch a 2-0 series lead heading to New York on Saturday. 300 hitters this postseason (and five guys batting below . Altuve hugged him. "I think the roof open kind of killed us," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said, later adding, "I didn’t think like he smoked it like no-doubter, but it felt like his homers to right.100), a DH who hasn’t had a hit in a month and a rotation of three shortstops, two of whom barely played that key position one game in the bigs before this ALCS. Can you believe how lucky these sons of a gun are? No one knows how they do it. A fan runs on the field and hugs Jose Altuve during the ninth inning of the Yankees’ 3-2 loss to the Astros in Game 2 of the ALCS. Is a four-leaf clover? Could it be a rabbit’s foot they carry around in their unis? Maybe it’s a lucky number. The only runs New York mustered were unearned, coming in the fourth after a flustered Valdez committed two errors on the same play. If you add up the digits in their 106 victories, it equals seven, which is one of the luckiest numbers ever created. We need to win,” the fan said, immune to the irony that he was doing his best to compromise that, icing Pressly who icily stared at him. “We expect (it),” Astros reliever Bryan Abreu said of Bregman’s clutch hitting. Something weird is going on here. Chas McCormick belts a two-run homer in the second inning of the Yankees’ 5-0 ALCS Game 3 loss to the Astros. The fan asked if he could take a selfie. Featuring a mix of pitches, Valdez got 25 swings and misses. N.Y.J Watt. Post: Charles Wenzelberg After the Astros’ 3-2 victory in Game 2, Yankees starter Luis Severino pointed out multiple times that the Astros “got lucky. Ryan Pressly walked one in a scoreless ninth, striking out three for his second save of the series. “Just trying to square up a ball is tough off him,” Bregman said of Severino, who fell to 0-3 against the Astros in the postseason (including 2017 and 2019). ” see also Once-promising New York baseball season about to end in a whimper The Hall of Fame baseball executive Branch Rickey told us that “luck is the residue of design. N.” He’s a great man, and those are some fancy words (He actually borrowed them from the English poet John Milton). But the Astros hadn’t come into existence when Rickey uttered those words in 1946. Post: Charles Wenzelberg “I saw him and saw he was wearing an Astros jersey,” Altuve would say later, “and I was like: ‘OK. Fan storms field before 9th inning at Minute Maid Park in Game 2 of ALCS One fan was caught on camera running onto the field during Game 2 of the ALCS. So it may not apply to them. Rickey is one of the greatest figures in the history of baseball.’ ” see also Fan interrupts Astros-Yankees Game 2 to hug Jose Altuve Maybe Altuve wanted to enjoy one final moment of hometown affection before stepping into the cauldron that awaits him this weekend, in The Bronx, where the local baseball citizenry will not exactly be in a hugging mood, and there will be exactly zero compassion on sale at any Yankee Stadium concession stand.318 in the five postseason games so far, including two home runs. But I remain unconvinced. Former Houston ace Gerrit Cole will start for New York. Sure, the Astros have reached six straight league championship series. The emotion of choice will be fury, and the vessel will be a serenade that’ll be sure to include the choicest of the seven words George Carlin said you can’t utter on television. But that’s too small a sample size for me. I’m going to have to see them do it many more years before I start to consider whether I might believe some of it. To Yankees fans, that’s what he is (even though Altuve has steadfastly maintained that while he was aware of the Astros’ garbage-can shenanigans, he never benefited from them). Jeremy Peña singled to center before Yordan Alvarez grounded into a forceout at second. The wind undoubtedly aided the Astros in Game 2, and this time it was the short porch. So during the All-Star break I got into the cage and really got after it, and tried to get mechanically sound. Chas McCormick’s two-run home run even struck the top of the wall before flying over. He all but snuck into Aaron Judge’s apartment and lifted the ’17 MVP plaque. The Yankees continued to hit in bad luck against Astros starter Cristian Javier, who luckily threw a seven-inning no-hitter against the Yankees last time he passed through town. It was a bit windy at Minute Maid Park in a rare game where the retractable roof was open, and it was unclear how much the conditions impacted flyballs. This time the Yankees even amassed a hit against Javier. His final at-bat Thursday, Altuve hit a scorching line drive off Jonathan Loaisiga that was ticketed for right field until Gleyber Torres got his glove on the short hop as he fell to the dirt, then started a 4-6-3 DP. But as luck would have it, it wasn’t enough. The Astros’ luck seems to be a never-ending thing, as it’s gone on all series, and really, over the eight years these teams have been facing each in October. N.138 in the two games against the Astros and have struck out 30 times to Houston’s eight. Jose Altuve (right) hugs shortstop Jeremy Pena after the Astros’ Game 3 win. N. Post: Charles Wenzelberg That should’ve been pure bliss.Y . The three-time batting champion went 0 for 4 Thursday to fall to 0 for 23 in the playoffs this year, which is the longest hitless streak to begin a postseason in MLB history.Post: Charles Wenzelberg The Yankees actually looked like they might finally get a break in the second inning when Christian Vazquez lofted a fly ball to right-center field that was between arguably the Yankees’ two best defensive players — center fielder Harrison Bader and . 1 — was nice enough to remove Dal Maxvill from the record books after 54 years, Maxvill having started the 1968 World Series 0-for-22 for the Cardinals.