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Jose Altuve heard plenty of jeers from fans at Yankee Stadium during this week s three-game series, but they fell silent in the eighth inning of Thursday’s finale. On a full-count fastball well above the strike zone, Altuve smacked a go-ahead three-run homer to lift the Astros to a 7-4 win.
The home run came on Altuve’s 31st birthday, and it snapped his 3-for-32 skid in a big way. You might call it an icing-on-the-cake moment for Houston’s sparkplug second baseman.
“If you ask him, he’ll just say he’s happy that he was able to contribute to the team and we got the win,” Astros starter Lance McCullers Jr. said. “But I know it meant a lot to us in the dugout to see him hit that homer.”
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At long last, the Yankees finally seem to be on a bit of a roll. After sweeping the Tigers over the weekend to move to .500, they’ve extended their winning streak to five in a row and will shoot to make it six with a second straight sweep this time at the expense of the loathed Astros. The Yankees have the man on the mound to make it happen, too: Gerrit Cole.
This will be Cole’s first start against the Astros since leaving them to join the Yankees as a free agent in December 2019. The shortened season and the Yanks’ early exit from the playoffs prevented him from facing them in 2020, but now he’ll get his chance. The last time that Cole wore an Astros uniform, he was standing in the bullpen during Game 7 of the 2019 World Series wondering why he wasn’t asked to help out in relief as the Nationals pulled off the upset.
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