the astros beat los angeles dodgers in the world series.
the astros beat los angeles dodgers in the world series.
who did the astros beat in the world series?
los angeles dodgers
bullet::::- justin verlander continued his masterful pitching in elimination postseason games and josé altuve drove in three runs, as the resurgent houston astros beat the new york yankees, 7–1, in game 6 of the american league championship series at minute maid park. the slumping astros had scored just nine runs in the series. with their victory, the astros forced a decisive game 7 for the right to face the los angeles dodgers in the world series. through seven innings, verlander silenced the potent yankees offense for the second time in the series, allowing five hits and issuing one walk while recording eight strikeouts, extending his streak of consecutive scoreless innings in elimination games to 24. yankees starter luis severino and verlander matched zeroes since the beginning. while verlander allowed a hit in each of his first three innings, severino kept the astros hitless until carlos correa lined a two-out single in the bottom of the fourth. but the astros chased severino in the fifth, when brian mccann delivered an rbi-double and altuve hit a two-run single for a 3–0 lead. severino lasted only 4 ⅔ innings. after that, houston broke through with four insurance runs. altuve belted a solo home run off reliever david robertson, his fourth of the postseason, leading off the eighth inning, while yuli gurriel added a two-run rbi double and evan gattis made the score 7–1 with a sacrifice fly. yankees rookie aaron judge clubbed his fourth homer of the postseason off houston reliever brad peacock in the eighth inning.
2017 in baseball
in 2011, downs made the astros out of spring training as a reserve player. he had a game-winning double against nick masset on april 7, giving the astros their first victory of the year as they defeated the cincinnati reds 3–2. on june 22, he hit a game-winning, pinch-hit, two-run home run against neftalí feliz as the astros defeated the texas rangers 5–3. on september 19, he hit a game-winning home run against masset as the astros beat the reds 3–2. he also made his first major league start in the outfield that day. three days later, he had a game-winning, pinch-hit, three-run double against matt reynolds as the astros beat the colorado rockies 9–6. in 106 games (199 at bats), downs batted .276 with 29 runs scored, 55 hits, 18 doubles, 10 home runs, and 41 rbi. he batted .349 as a pinch hitter, (fifth in the league among pinch hitters), and he tied for the league lead with three pinch-hit home runs. his 15 pinch-hit rbi led the majors and were second for a single season in astros' history to orlando merced's 17 in 2001.
matt downs