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Let me confess bias. I adore watching a dominant ace, one of those pitchers who in the flower of his power and guile imposes his will on a powerful adversary.
So I sat to watch the Astros' ace of aces, Gerrit Cole, take on the Yankees, and their fearsome, stuffed to the gills power lineup on Tuesday in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series. For an inning it appeared Cole’s day would end early.
The Yankees’ first baseman, the .327-hitting magician D.J. LeMahieu, stroked a 99-mile-per-hour fastball to center. Then Aaron Judge hit a cue shot of a single.