The Yankees season has come down to this — Gerrit Cole and Nestor Cortes. On full rest. In The Bronx.
The Astros, in their sixth straight ALCS, lead two games to none. The math is onerous for the Yankees. They have to win four out of five versus a team that is 7-2 against them this year. Against a team that with each pitch and each inning just performs as if it knows it is superior. That its players possess the answer key to any Yankee test.
Houston is just a gigantic step up from that and the Yankees will ask their two best starters to offer a counterpunch. Cole and Cortes both excelled in win-or-go home games against Cleveland, combining good stuff and the right stuff. These are now do-or-die as well — even if a clincher cannot come before Game 4.
The Yankees were batting just .176 in their first six playoff games before managing just four hits in ALCS Game 2, just one after a Gleyber Torres RBI single drew them within 3-2 in the fourth. A fielding, then throwing error by Valdez off a Giancarlo Stanton grounder back to the mound opened the door to both runs. But that is all the Yankees mustered. The Yankees’ last 18 batters collected one hit, one walk, one hit by pitch and 11 strikeouts.
But here is the thing, Severino made himself susceptible to a two-out homer by Bregman in the third by hitting Houston’s weak-hitting catcher Martin Maldonado with an 0-2 pitch leading off the inning.
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