2015 American League Wild Card Game

2015 American League Wild Card Game

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Houston Astros 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 3 5 0 New York Yankees 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Team Manager Season New York Yankees Joe Girardi 87–75, .537, 6 GB Houston Astros A. J. Hinch 86–76, .531, 2 GB
Date:	October 6, 2015
Venue:	Yankee Stadium
City:	Bronx, New York
Attendance:	50,113
Television:	ESPN
TV announcers:	Dan Shulman, John Kruk, Jessica Mendoza, Buster Olney and Tim Kurkjian
Radio:	ESPN
Radio announcers:	Dave O'Brien and Aaron Boone
Umpires:	Ted Barrett (crew chief), Eric Cooper, Paul Emmel, Bill Miller, Chris Conroy, Manny Gonzalez
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The 2015 American League Wild Card Game was a play-in game during Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2015 postseason played between the American League's (AL) two wild card teams, the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros. It was held at Yankee Stadium on October 6, 2015.^[1]

The Yankees clinched a wild card berth on October 1,^[2] while the Astros clinched a wild card berth on October 4, the final day of the regular season.^[3] The Yankees hosted the game, as they finished the regular season with a better win-loss record. This was the Astros' first postseason appearance as an American League team, and first overall since 2005, while the Yankees appeared in the postseason for the first time since 2012. As such, this was the first postseason meeting between the Astros and the Yankees.^[4] It was also the Astros' first playoff win since Game 6 of the 2005 National League Championship Series. In addition, with the Yankees being the first to be eliminated, all four remaining teams in the ALDS were expansion teams.

The game

Houston's Dallas Keuchel struck out seven batters and allowed only three hits in six innings of work, and the Astros' bullpen then retired nine of ten Yankee batters for the victory.^[5] The Astros were paced offensively by leadoff home runs by Colby Rasmus in the second inning and Carlos Gómez in the fourth, as New York starter Masahiro Tanaka struggled to find command of his pitches.^[6] Tanaka lasted five innings, striking out three.^[7]

Houston's Jose Altuve scored Jonathan Villar from second base in the seventh inning against Yankee reliever Dellin Betances, the final run of the game.^[8]

References

External links

• "2015 Postseason". MLB.com. Retrieved August 22, 2015. 
• Box Score

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