NEW YORK – A sold-out crowd swarms from Yankee Stadium on a sunny Saturday afternoon, hoping he might see an intruder with Gerrit Cole on the mound. They saw no-no, though not in the way they could have imagined.
Astros starter Christian Javier, who signed for $ 10,000 as a free agent without a draft from the Dominican Republic in 2015, combined with relegators Hector Neris and Ryan Presley to keep Yankees – the team with the best baseball record – from hitting Houston won brilliantly 3-0.
This is the first time the Yankees have not been hit since six Astros pitchers combined to avoid being hit on June 11, 2003 at the old Yankee Stadium. These are the only two without attackers thrown against the Yankees since 1958.
The 25-year-old Javier made his career-highest 13 strokes in seven innings without strokes, throwing his career-high 115 points (71 strokes) in the process. This is the most outs from a Houston starter since Cole hit 14 batteries on September 24, 2019.
Josh Donaldson was the only Yankee to reach base against Javier. He drew in the first inning at close range 3-2, in which he survived a check swing and reached the seventh again after a mistake in throwing the third baseman Alex Bregman.
This is the 14th striker in the history of Astros and the first since Justin Verlander turned the third in his career on September 1, 2019 in Toronto. The combined striker at Yankee Stadium 19 years ago came after starter Roy Oswalt left with an injury after an inning and relayers Pete Munro, Kirk Saarlos, Brad Lidge, Octavio Dotel and Billy Wagner ended it.
Cole, who scored without a striker in the eighth inning in his previous start, missed two outs in the fifth and kept Astros off the board while rookie JJ Mathievich hit roulette Hower in the right field with two outs in the seventh. Jose Altowe added a solo Homer in Michael King’s eighth eliver.
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