Story time ladies and gentleman and this one is an interesting one. This story covers what the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros have done against one another head-to-head here in 2017. Will these stats mean much in this new season that we call the postseason? No, not likely but you know what they say… “history is usually an indicator of the future.” The Yankees and Astros have the ability to either debunk or prove that theory right here in this series but that process cannot begin without the history between the two clubs. Don’t worry, I got your back. Keep reading.
The New York Yankees and the Houston Astros faced off seven
times this season, four times in the Bronx and three times inside Minute Maid
Park, with the Astros winning five of those seven matchups including
three-of-four inside Yankee Stadium. Sure, that looks bad but the last time we
did this we were telling the story of the 2017 New York Yankees and the 2017
Cleveland Indians and that story turned out alright in the end for the boys in
pinstripes, didn’t it? Also it is worth mentioning that all seven games came
before the 2017 July 31st trading deadline and four of those games
came way back in May. Needless to say both teams are much different today than
they were in May and June/July of this season.
Gm# | Date | Tm | Opp | W/L | R | RA | Inn | W-L | Rank | GB | Win | Loss | Save | Time | D/N | Attendance | Streak | ||
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32 | Thursday, May 11 | boxscore | NYY | HOU | L | 2 | 3 | 21-11 | 2 | 0.5 | Keuchel | Pineda | Giles | 3:09 | N | 39,050 | -- | ||
33 | Friday, May 12 | boxscore | NYY | HOU | L | 1 | 5 | 21-12 | 2 | 0.5 | McCullers | Montgomery | 3:09 | N | 41,150 | --- | |||
34 | Sunday, May 14 (1) | boxscore | NYY | HOU | W | 11 | 6 | 22-12 | 1 | up 0.5 | Warren | Harris | 3:20 | D | + | ||||
35 | Sunday, May 14 (2) | boxscore | NYY | HOU | L | 7 | 10 | 22-13 | 1 | up 0.5 | Morton | Tanaka | 3:49 | D | 47,883 | - | |||
78 | Friday, Jun 30 | boxscore | NYY | @ | HOU | W | 13 | 4 | 43-35 | 2 | 1.0 | Pineda | Feliz | Mitchell | 3:20 | N | 40,024 | + | |
79 | Saturday, Jul 1 | boxscore | NYY | @ | HOU | L | 6 | 7 | 43-36 | 2 | 2.0 | Diaz | Betances | Giles | 3:25 | N | 41,010 | - | |
80 | Sunday, Jul 2 | boxscore | NYY | @ | HOU | L | 1 | 8 | 43-37 | 2 | 3.0 | Devenski | Severino | 3:29 | D | 41,761 | -- |
We can look at the history all day and analyze it until we
are blue in the face but when these two teams faced off head-to-head this
season players like David Robertson, Tommy Kahnle, Sonny Gray, Todd Frazier and
even Didi Gregorius weren’t either here or firing on all cylinders yet after
slow starts due to injuries. Sure, the Astros could say the same and remind us
that they didn’t have Justin Verlander during those contests either but when
these games took place the Yankees were a young team and a team just at the
beginning of coming together. Now the team had melded and molded into what we
see before us, potentially the American League Champions.
Stay tuned to see what happens and how this story ends over
the next four-to-seven games. Go Yankees, Yankees in six.
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