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“#Impressive win over Astros may be the spark Yankees need<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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This is the night and the weekend series<\/a> that could change everything, and start making the Yankees whole again. Yeah, you can say that about any night and any series in a six-month regular season. Nobody knows what might transform an indifferent baseball team into a fire-breathing contender, or if it will happ<\/a>en at all.<\/p>\n

But Friday night\u2019s 4-0 shutdown of the best offense in baseball \u2014 maybe even the best team in baseball \u2014 is a great place to start. Remember, the Astros denied the Yankees a trip<\/a> to the World Series twice in the past four years. They were really good when they were cheating, and they are really good now that they have loaded their trash cans and surveillance equipment into storage.<\/p>\n

And the Yankees, on their first trip to Houston since Jose Altuve walked them off with his Game<\/a> 6 homer off Aroldis Chapman in the 2019 ALCS, silenced the Astros\u2019 bats and their crowd. Three hits, no runs, no dogpiles at the plate. Nestor Cortes, who has surrendered three earned runs in 25 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings this year, and who has a lower ERA than Jacob deGrom (1.05 to 1.08 if you\u2019re scoring at home), was the living, breathing definition of crafty and deceptive, before the bullpen got it to the house.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo moment is too big for him,\u201d Brett Gardner said of Cortes.<\/p>\n

Gardner ripped a two-run double in the fourth, and DJ LeMahieu won a 10-pitch war with Bryan Abreu for a two-run double in the seventh, and that was that. The Yankees scored a small victory when they took a road series from Seattle after losing two of three to the Mets, but there was nothing small about this.<\/p>\n

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The Yankees celebrate their win over the Astros on Friday night.<\/figcaption>
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The Astros showed up 20 games over .500 and leading the majors in runs, hits, RBI, total bases, batting average, OPS, and runs per game. The Yankees, meanwhile, entered the series outside of MLB\u2019s top 20 clubs in hits, runs, total bases, RBI, and runs per game, and were dead last in doubles and triples.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why they need this weekend to put a few dents in the Houston machine. It\u2019s pretty clear what the Yankees must do to become legit playoff contenders \u2014 start swinging the bats the way the Astros swing them.<\/p>\n

Start making the kind of contact they made Friday night, when they finished with 12 hits.<\/p>\n