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“#’What are they going to say now’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Shaken up by a scandal before the virus outbreak shrunk the season, the Houston Astros barely played well enough to reach the playoffs \u2014 with the rest of baseball actively rooting against them.<\/p>\n

Well, they\u2019re not ready to leave yet.<\/p>\n

Carlos Correa hit a two-out, tiebreaking home run in the seventh inning for the Astros, who produced another stifling pitching performance and swept Minnesota over two game<\/a>s with a 3-1 victory Wednesday that sent the Twins to a record 18th straight postseason loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know a lot of people are mad. I know a lot of people don\u2019t want to see us here,\u201d Correa said. \u201cBut what are they going to say now?\u201d<\/p>\n

Nine months after Houston\u2019s rules-breaking, sign-stealing system was revealed, the Astros advanced to the Division Series<\/a> in Los Angeles. As the sixth seed, they\u2019ll face the Oakland Athletics or Chicago White Sox in a best-of-five matchup starting Monday at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think they necessarily thought that they had anything to prove. They just had to play ball,\u201d said manager Dusty Baker, who took his fifth different team to the playoffs and advanced for the first time in seven rounds since winning the 2003 NL Division Series with the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n

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Carlos Correa (right) celebrates with Alex Bregman after belting a solo homer in the seventh inning of the Astros\u2019 3-1 series-clinching win over the Twins.<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Twins are 0-18 in the playoffs since winning Game 1 of their Division Series at the New York Yankees on Oct. 5, 2004, a total of seven rounds lost. Since that date, the Astros are 43-35 in postseason play, winning 10 of 15 rounds with three trip<\/a>s to the World Series.<\/p>\n

Kyle Tucker hit two RBI singles for the Astros and made a key throw from left field for the inning-ending out in the fifth.<\/p>\n

Rookie Cristian Javier worked three hitless innings in relief for the victory in his postseason debut and Ryan Pressly pitched a perfect ninth against his former team, giving the Houston bullpen a total of 9 2\/3 scoreless innings in this wild card series with three hits allowed.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the very beginning, we envisioned ourselves back in the playoffs and playing real well,\u201d Tucker said. \u201cSo we never counted ourselves out at any point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nobody on this Twins team has had a hand in more than six of the playoffs losses, but for the second straight year one of baseball\u2019s most potent lineups limped through a brief postseason cameo. In a three-game division series sweep by the Yankees last year, the Twins totaled seven runs and 22 hits. Against the Astros, they mustered only two runs and seven hits.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put a lot of balls in play, it seemed like, but they were up in the air and, yeah, it seemed like we played into their trap,\u201d said Max Kepler, one of four starters who went hitless in the series. \u201cAt the end of the day, we didn\u2019t get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nelson Cruz gave the Twins an RBI double for a second straight game, this time in the fourth inning against starter Jose Urquidy. Luis Arraez aggressively tried to score from first base, but Correa took the throw from Tucker and fired home to beat Arraez to the plate to preserve the tie after third base coach Tony Diaz waved him in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know why he sent him,\u201d Correa said.<\/p>\n

Then in the seventh against losing pitcher Cody Stashak, Correa drove a 1-0 slider into the tarp-covered seats above right-center field for his 12th home run in 52 playoff games.<\/p>\n

After winning 101, 103 and 107 games in the last three regular seasons, winning the 2017 World Series and losing the championship in seven games to the Washington Nationals last year, the Astros stumbled through the 2020 season at 29-31 under Baker and new general<\/a> manager James Click with a slew of injuries after the COVID-19 pandemic cut the schedule to 60 games.<\/p>\n

They had the third-worst road record in the major leagues, too, but none of that mattered this week against the third-seeded Twins, who were out of sorts in their two biggest games this year.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos was one of the few who were locked in with five strong innings to start, with just two hits allowed. His two walks were costly, though, issued right before Tucker\u2019s single in the fourth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone was ready to leave, to end this way,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cThat\u2019s life.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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