
Leading by 5-4 thanks to a home run by center fielder Harrison Bader, Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres tossed the ball wide of shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa at second base, allowing Jose Altuve to advance and Jeremy Peña to reach base. Gleyber and IKF couldn't convert this double play, the inning continues /r9h5AA1I2J- Talkin' Yanks October 24, 2022 The Yankees blew two leads on Sunday, including one in the seventh inning that may be replayed in Yankees fans’ nightmares all off-season. The Astros pitched better, hit better and defended better. The Yankees, Judge included, were outplayed by the Astros. Most Valuable Player Award and is a free agent. The Yankees now face a long winter of decisions, but the most important one will involve the superstar right fielder Aaron Judge, who is viewed as a leading candidate to win the A.L. “We need to do better if we want to beat those guys,” Yankees pitcher Luis Severino said of the Astros.
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The Astros now have another goal: joining the 1976 Cincinnati Reds as the only teams in the division era to complete a perfect postseason.Īsked how close the Yankees were to being able to get past the Astros, Boone said they were “not close enough” before saying he wished the teams could have met with the Yankees at full strength. And this time they did it by sweeping Seattle in three games and the Yankees in four games, joining the 2014 Kansas City Royals and the 2007 Colorado Rockies as the only teams to sweep a division series and a league championship series in the same season. The Astros, winners of the World Series in the since-tainted 2017 season, have now reached the final round four times in six years. After losing it last year to Atlanta, the Astros get a chance to redeem themselves starting Friday in Houston against the Philadelphia Phillies, who toppled the San Diego Padres in the National League Championship Series on Sunday. The Astros, on the other hand, ended their sixth consecutive trip to the A.L.C.S.

and will be in their fourth World Series in the last six years. The Astros were playing in their sixth straight A.L.C.S.
