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Astros News
- The Astros’ offense announced it was ready for October as Houston took Game 1, 10-5 (Astros.com)
- Carlos Correa’s bat made the most noise as he belted 2 more postseason homers in yesterday’s game (Astros.com)
- And as he gets attention, expect a lot of think pieces about the Astros being awful forever and how people are mad that Correa dared to clap back (ESPN)
- But the Astros are sticking together when everyone wanted them to roll over, and that could mean trouble for the rest of the teams (Yahoo Sports)
- Alex Bregman is a home run machine every October 5th (Astros.com)
- Yesterday’s game turned into a battle of the bullpens early and, in a reversal from the regular season, it was the Astros that came out on top (The Athletic, $$$)
- Here’s how they stitched together five sparking bullpen innings (Astros.com)
- Cristian Javier, who was part of that stitching, has been named the Astros’ Rookie of the Year by Baseball America (Baseball America)
- Speaking of Awards, the Houston BBWAA has named its winners for Astros Team Awards in 2020 (Astros.com)
- Turns out that Framber Valdez was picked up by the Brewers in 2015, but let go after failing a physical (Twitter - Chandler Rome)
- 40 years ago today the Astros clinched the NL West in a one-game playoff at Dodger Stadium (ABC 13)
Around the League
- The Yankees put the Rays away easily in Game 1 of the other ALDS, winning 9-3 (MLB.com)
- Cole may have found his personal catcher in the form of Kyle Higashioka (New York Times, $$$)
- Here are all the storylines for today’s Division Series games (MLB.com)
- Can Atlanta’s young starting rotation ride their success further into the playoffs? (538 Sports)
- Here are the questions that every playoff team has answered and the ones that remain for 2020 (Bleacher Report)