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As New York, Houston Are Playing Game 3 Of ALCS (American League Championship Series) Tonight, Today In Bronx New York Gerrit Cole Is Facing, Opposing Former Team, Cristian Javier!

For two season Gerrit Cole was a member of Houston’s starting rotation!

In 2018 for Houston Gerrit Cole finished with a record of 15-5 with an earn run average of 2.88!

In 2019 for Houston he finished of 20-5 with an earn run average of 2.50!

“According to mlb.com”

Before signing with New York on December 16, 2019 for $324 million dollars for 9 seasons

As New York, Houston are playing game 3 of ALCS (American League Championship Series) tonight, today in Bronx New York Gerrit Cole is facing, opposing former team, Cristian Javier!

Where?

On the mound!

Gerrit Cole, Cristian Javier are alike because they’re both right handed starting pitchers!

Gerrit Cole comes into game 3 of ALDS (American League Division Series) with a record of 2-0 with an earn run average of 2.03 this postseason.

Cristian Javier comes into game 3 of ALDS (American League Division Series) with a record of 0-0 with an earn run average of 6.75 this postseason.

“According to mlb.com”

In game three of the ALDS Gerrit Cole has the task of getting New York back into what is a seven game series as New York down 0-2 as New York lost back to back games to Houston in Houston Texas including Thursday’s game 3-2.

Though,

Aaron Judge almost hit go ahead 2-run home run to give New York 4-2 lead in game 2 of ALCS verses Houston Aaron Judge was denied by who? Kyle Tucker as Kyle Tucker’s spikes crunched into the warning track, the rest of the world knew for sure. as Houston took 2-0 lead in ALCS Thursday with 3-2 win in Houston Texas as Alex Bregman scored Houston’s only run in their 3-2 win Thursday as he homered to left scoring Martin Maldonado, Yordan Alvarez in the bottom of the 3rd inning off New York starting pitcher Luis Severino

Following Aaron Judge almost hitting go ahead 2-run home run to give New York 4-2 lead in ALCS verses Houston where he was denied as Houston took 2-0 lead in ALCS Thursday New York manager Aaron Boone had this to say I think the roof open kind of killed us."

Though,

The roof being open to Minute Maid Park Thursday likely wasn’t the real problem of why New York is down 2-0 to Houston in ALCS as offensively New York is struggling as New York received offensive production from Anthony Rizzo grounding out to first scoring Aaron Judge in the top of the 4th inning trimming New York’s deficit to 3-1 before Gleyber Torres reached on infield single scoring Gleyber Torres while Harrison Bader was 1-3 though he contributed 0 runs, 0 runs batted in, 0 walks , Aaron Judge was 1-4 with 1 run, 0 runs batted in, 0 walks. Giancarlo Stanton was 0-4 with 1 run, 0 runs batted in 0 walks. Anthony Rizzo was 0-4 with 0 runs, , 1 run batted in . Gleyber Torres was 1-4 with 0 runs, 1 run batted in , 0 walks . Kyle Higashioka was 0-3 with 0 runs, 0 runs batted in, 0 walks. Matt Carpenter was 0-1 with 0 runs , 0 runs batted in, 0 walks.

In game 2 of the ALCS New York batters struckout 13 times following striking 17 times in game 1 on Wednesday.

“According to espnapp”

Following Aaron Judge almost hitting go ahead 2-run home run to give New York 4-2 lead in ALCS verses Houston in game 2 where he was denied by Kyle Tucker as Houston took 2-0 lead in ALCS New York manager Aaron Boone had this to say I think the roof open kind of killed us." had this to say about New York’s lack of offensive production against Houston “The idea ain’t just to touch it. We’ve got to score,”“They’re about as tough as there is to score against, but we’ve got to figure out a way.”

Following Aaron Judge almost hitting go ahead 2-run home run to give New York 4-2 lead in ALCS verses Houston in game 2 where he was denied by Kyle Tucker as Houston took 2-0 lead in ALCS Aaron Judge’s teammate Giancarlo Stanton who was designated for game 2 had this to say!

We’ve got to shorten up a little bit and put the ball in play. You never know what can happen if you put the ball in play."

Following Aaron Judge almost hitting go ahead 2-run home run to give New York 4-2 lead in ALCS verses Houston in game 2 where he was denied by Kyle Tucker as Houston took 2-0 lead in ALCS Luis Severino who surrendered a 3 -run home run to Alex Bregman scoring Martin Maldonado, Yordan Alvarez had this to say about surrendering 3-run home run to Alex Bregman, Aaron Judge’s almost hit go ahead 2-run home run to give New York a 4-2 lead

“According to Bryan Hoch’s article on mlb.com”

Though,

New York’s offense is going to have to get it going to give New York an opportunity to get back in the series with Gerrit Cole on the mound because it hasn’t gotten going offensively in the first two games of ALCS including Thursday’s game a 3-2 loss to Houston in Houston Texas because as New York received offensive production from Anthony Rizzo grounding out to first scoring Aaron Judge in the top of the 4th inning trimming New York’s deficit to 3-1 before Gleyber Torres reached on infield single scoring Gleyber Torres while Harrison Bader was 1-3 though he contributed 0 runs, 0 runs batted in, 0 walks , Aaron Judge was 1-4 with 1 run, 0 runs batted in, 0 walks. Giancarlo Stanton was 0-4 with 1 run, 0 runs batted in 0 walks. Anthony Rizzo was 0-4 with 0 runs, , 1 run batted in . Gleyber Torres was 1-4 with 0 runs, 1 run batted in , 0 walks . Kyle Higashioka was 0-3 with 0 runs, 0 runs batted in, 0 walks. Matt Carpenter was 0-1 with 0 runs , 0 runs batted in, 0 walks.

“According to espnapp”

The question is can they?

Houston unlike New York has a 2-0 lead in the ALCS (American League Championship Series) because they won the first in Houston including Thursday’s game 3-2 as Alex Bregman homered to left 360 feet scoring Martin Maldonad, Yordan Alvarez off New York starting pitcher Luis Severino supporting Framber Valdez start of 7.0 innings surrendering 0 earned runs , striking out 9 New York batters , walking 0 New York batters.

Following taking a 2-0 lead in the ALCS (American League Championship Series Houston manager Dusty Baker had this to say about Framber Valdez start! You always worry about a young player being able to shake off something like that, but Maldy, the guys on the team, they told him, ‘Hey, forget it. We still got the lead. Go out and pitch,’“He might have shut 'em out had he not had his own miscues.”

According to Brian McTaggert’s article on mlb.com”

First pitch is set for 5:07pm if you’re watching in Eastern Standard Time from Yankee Stadium!

First pitch is set for 4:07pm if you’re watching in Central Time from Yankee Stadium!

The game is going to be televised on TBS!