Good morning, H-Town! Your Astros are waking up with a 1-0 ALCS lead heading into tonight's Game 2. Here's how the victory and a Justin Verlander record went down last night. LevelUp
Did playing just three games in the last two weeks negatively impact the Houston Astros going into their American League Championship Series opener? Please.
The Astros batters could have given Verlander run support before the Yankee home run. Houston had two baserunners on when Alex Bregman hit a line drive to right field that forced outfielder Aaron Judge to lay out for the catch, saving at least two runs.JV pitched six quality innings, allowing just three hits and one run and striking out 11 Yankees to give him the most postseason strikeouts in MLB history.
Houston Astros shortstop Jeremy Pena hits a double during the first inning in Game 1 of the ALCS on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, in Houston.Let the rookie get some. After Hector Neris retired the Yankees in the top of the seventh inning, Jeremy Peña led off the bottom half with a solo home run towards the train tracks in left.Houston extends the lead, 4-1.The Astros maintained a lead heading into the eighth inning, with Rafael Montero relieving.
Verlander, Neris, Montero and Pressly combined to throw 17 strikeouts, which is the Yankees' second-most strikeout total in a postseason game.There wasn't anything too radical for manager Dusty Baker's 26-man roster in the league championship round. Meyers became the odd man out. He was among the Houston batters at the bottom of the order who were less-than-stellar.A native of The Woodlands starts Game 1 for New YorkTaillon, 30, appeared in just one game this postseason: a three-hit, two-run 10th-inning appearance in a losing effort against Cleveland.
Taillon is also a cancer survivor. He had surgery for testicular cancer in 2017. His road to recovery was chronicled inNo. 27 isn't intimidated by a team that wants to win world championship No. 28.
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