HOUSTON -- If it wasn't abundantly clear already, Game 2 of the American League Championship Series crystallized the ethos of the New York Yankees: They are not going to sit back idly and watch the Houston Astros wrest a World Series berth from their lifeless hands. They are going to be aggressive, and that aggressiveness may at times verge on recklessness. So be it. Wallflowers cannot, and will not, beat these Astros.
The Yankees' 3-2 extra-innings loss Sunday night in Game 2 featured a rightfully assertive posture from the earliest moments of the game.