Masahiro Tanaka threw 83 pitches in his final outing of the season, but only two really mattered.
The first pitch of the second inning was drilled deep into the right-field seats by Colby Rasmus to give the Astros their first lead, and Carlos Gomez did the same thing to start the fourth, this time to left.
Though Tanaka was far from bad in the 3-0 loss to Houston in the season-ending wild-card loss on Tuesday night in The Bronx, he also was far from dominant.
In just his second start back from a strained right hamstring suffered on Sept.