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A look at what's happening all around the majors Monday:___GOING BATTYThe two highest-scoring teams in the majors this season have combined for all of six runs in the first two games of the AL Championship Series. Houston, which totaled 896 runs to 858 Continue to Article

October 15, 2017 10:00:pm EST

Trailing again 2-0 in the postseason, these young New York Yankees remain even keeled going into Game 3 of the AL Championship Series against the Houston Astros. "I don't know if it's maturity or just being dumb," Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia said Sunday. At 36 the old man of the pitching staff, Sabathia will pitch Monday surrounded by a starting lineup that includes Baby Bombers Aaron Judge (25), Gary Sanchez (24) and Greg Bird (24). Continue to Article

October 15, 2017 6:46:pm EST

Every time the Houston Astros suit up, they wear a simple patch as a reminder of what Houston lost to Hurricane Harvey and its catastrophic flooding Continue to Article

October 15, 2017 4:03:pm EST

With a mid-October birthday, Girardi hopes to always be involved with baseball on that day. On the skipper's 53rd birthday Saturday, the Yankees suffered their second 2-1 loss against the Houston Astros in less than 24 hours to go down 2-0 in the AL Championship Series. Girardi said before the game that still playing is a good birthday present. Continue to Article

October 15, 2017 11:25:am EST

HOUSTON—In the Houston Astros clubhouse Justin Verlander pulled on a suit—a suit, it must be pointed out given the way he had just pitched Saturday, that did not include a cape—and just kept wrenching postseason baseball further back in time, back to long October shadows, Gibsonian glares, Kodachrome snapshots and bullpen doors that never opened. Game 2 of the ALCS, a 2-1 victory for Houston over the Yankees, will go down as The Verlander Game. In one of the rarest exhibitions of pitching and purpose the game allows these days, Verlander threw a complete game with 124 pitches, something that had not been done in 10,776 consecutive regular season and postseason starts, dating to 2015. Continue to Article

October 15, 2017 12:54:am EST