Homer-happy World Series continues tonight in Houston
HOUSTON (AP) — As a couple of Astros loosened up in the outfield, the retractable roof at Minute Maid Park made its slow crawl Thursday, turning the bright sun into shade.
That might be the only way to keep balls from flying completely out of the yard at this power-packed World Series.
A day after Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa and Houston combined with the Los Angeles Dodgers for a Series-record eight home runs in the Astros’ 7-6, 11-inning win, the baseball world was still marveling over the moonshots.
So were the players who launched them.
“Actually, when I was getting off the plane with (Carlos) Beltran, I was talking to him, and I was like, what was going through your head when Altuve hit the homer? He was like, ‘We were going crazy in the dugout,”’ Astros third baseman Alex Bregman said.
“Then I was like what about when Correa hit his, what about when they hit theirs? And they hit theirs,” he said, laughing. “We were just going back and forth.”
After a Major League Baseball season that set a record for the most home runs, the World Series is off to a flying start.
Already a whopping 11 homers — six by Los Angeles — as the sides split the first two games at Dodger Stadium.
At this rate, they’d shatter the Series record of 21 in 2002 when Barry Bonds and the Giants lost to the Angels in seven games.
The curveballing Lance McCullers Jr. starts Game 3 for Houston tonight against Yu Darvish, and the roof will be shut — exactly how the Astros like it.
The highest-scoring team in the majors is 6-0 at its thumping home this post-season.
Yankees fire Girardi as manager
Joe Girardi was fired as New York Yankees manager Thursday after a decade that produced just one World Series title for a team that expects to win every year.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman announced the move five days after New York lost to Houston in Game 7 of the AL Championship Series.
“Everything this organization does is done with careful and thorough consideration, and we’ve decided to pursue alternatives for the managerial position,” Cashman said in a statement.