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AL Wild Card GameThread: Houston Astros at New York Yankees

If you want to keep watching baseball, you're going to have to settle for watching teams other than the Washington Nationals.

Tonight it's the American League Wild Card matchup between the New York Yankees and upstart Houston Astros with Masahiro Tanaka on the mound for the home team in Yankee Stadium against 'Stros' left-hander Dallas Keuchel.

Can the Astros spare the baseball world from another couple weeks of the Yankees on the television attempting to win their 28th World Series?

Yankees' skipper Joe Girardi talked on Monday about his starter and what the 26-year-old right-hander brings to the mound after Tanaka finished his second season in New York (12-7) with a 3.