Yankees Rally Late to Tie the Series
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“Rebuild”, the term that fuels the Yankees this season and postseason. This meaning that people were calling this year’s Yankees a rebuild, and they weren’t taking it too nicely. The Yankees defeated the Astros 6-4 on Tuesday night, to tie the ALCS at two games.
The offense for the Yankees is insanely hot, some may say hot enough to win the World Series. The term rebuild may fuel the Yankees energetically, but off the bat, the Yankees have become dependent on Judge and Sanchez for the big hits, and as of late, they haven’t been the go to. But last night it was Judge who sparked the comeback. The comeback started in the seventh, Aaron Judge hitting a homerun and then a tying double in the eighth inning. Sanchez added to the spark with a two run double.
Judge had multiple hits for the first time since the AL wild-card game against Minnesota. He's still just 7 for 37 with 22 strikeouts in the playoffs, but he's 4 for 13 (.308) with three walks in the ALCS. He also homered in an 8-1 Game 3 win.
After the late comeback in the 7th and 8th inning for the Yankees, Chapman closed it out, striking out the first two batters and then flying out to end the game.
Sonny Grey started off the game for the Yankees, giving up one hit through five innings. In four starts this postseason for Grey, in his time on the mound the Bombers offense haven’t produced a run.
Tonight is Game 5 and Yankees Stadium will be rocking when the Yankees have a shot to take a 3-2 series lead. Masahiro Tanaka on the bump for the Bombers and Dallas Keuchel for the Astros. A rematch of Game 1, where Keuchel out pitched Tanaka winning the game 2-1. First pitch is set for 5:08PM on FS1.
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By Jake Martino
