NEW YORK -- The man on the mound for the Houston Astros was supposed to belong on a short list of the greatest New York sports tormentors. Think Reggie Miller with a beard, or Tom Brady with a beard, or Chipper Jones with a ...
You get the picture.
The young Yankees had battled their way back into this American League Championship Series with a pair of victories in Games 3 and 4, but those came against the back end of the Astros rotation and the shaky (to put it kindly) Houston bullpen.