AL Wild Card Game: New York Yankees vs Houston Astros

[MMC]

Who ya got?

Astros lineup:

2B Jose Altuve
RF George Springer
SS Carlos Correa
LF Colby Rasmus
DH Evan Gattis
CF Carlos Gomez
3B Luis Valbuena
1B Chris Carter
C Jason Castro

P Dallas Keuchel

Yankees lineup:

CF Brett Gardner
LF Chris Young
RF Carlos Beltran
DH Alex Rodriguez
C Brian McCann
3B Chase Headley
1B Greg Bird
2B Rob Refsnyder
SS Didi Gregorius

P Masahiro Tanaka

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[Virtanen18]

Astros. Home or away.

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

This is a tough one, Houston is awful on the road and Kuechel isn't particularly dominant away from Minute Maid, but the Yankees have been playing poorly and Tanaka looked questionable battling injury. Flip a coin.

 

[Cody Webster]

Go 'Stros

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Need to know who the Astros are starting before picking. Keuch on 3 days rest? Has he ever pitched on 3 days rest before?

 

[SladeWilson23]

Yankees look like crap right now. Houston is not exactly tearing the world up either. It'll probably be Keuchel, and he owns the Yanks, so Houston wins this.

 

[TootooTrain]

Yankees in 1! Just a hunch.

 

[KaylaJ]

Need to know who the Astros are starting before picking. Keuch on 3 days rest? Has he ever pitched on 3 days rest before?

They talked about this the other day and no. He seemed to have been aware of the possibility and said nothing much of his schedule would change. Luckily his last start was the 21-5 so it wasn't like it was a majorly stress filled outing.

 

[GIN ANTONIC]

I voted Houston because that's what I want to happen but I think the Yankees will take it. Tanaka can shut down the big boppers just like he always does to the Jays. Plus the Astros are super RH heavy. Not that Yankees Stadium is big at either corner but it certainly favours LH hitters.

 

[MMC]

Keuchel and Tanaka the confirmed starters.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Keuchel and Tanaka the confirmed starters.

Not seeing any confirmation for Keuchel and I checked the twitter search diligently.

 

[MMC]

Not seeing any confirmation for Keuchel and I checked the twitter search diligently.

I got a notification from At Bat saying that

 

[MMC]

 

[MMC]

Im sorry, I really don't know what twitter sources are reliable, if someone could help me out on that, it would be great.

 

[MMC]

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Im sorry, I really don't know what twitter sources are reliable, if someone could help me out on that, it would be great.

Well, I checked Astros twitter and all their beat writers and they had nothing about it being confirmed.

https://twitter.com/EvanDrellich

https://twitter.com/brianmctaggart

 

[MMC]

The tweet above wasn't enough confirmation for you?

 

[JoeyBeans]

Yanks are tired.

 

[SladeWilson23]

Yanks are tired.

This could be it too. They lost a lot of steam in September.

 

[Cassano]

Keuchel?

 

[TF97]

I have a feeling that the Yankees will win. Then lose to KC.

 

[Reality Check]

I would like Houston more if this were a longer series. But I still see them pulling this out and eventually reach the ALCS

 

[Canada4Gold]

Astros. Out with the old, in with the new. And the New is not New York.

 

[Dr Pepper]

I'd like to see Houston advance, still amazed at what they've managed to do this year.

 

[S A W F T*]

Go Astros!