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AL wild card game: Yankees vs. Astros, probable pitchers, TV time

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The New York Yankees host the Houston Astros at Yankee Stadium Tuesday night to kickoff the 2015 postseason.

For the Yankees, it's their first postseason appearance since 2012 and first in the post-Derek Jeter Era. For the Astros, it's their first since 2005, when they reached the World Series.

The essentials:

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Time/TV: 8:08 p.m. ET, ESPN

What's at stake: The winner advances to the Divisional Series vs. the Kansas City Royals

Probable starters:

Dallas Keuchel, Astros

  • 2015: 20-8 with a 2.48 ERA and 216 Ks
  • vs. Yankees: 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA (pitched 16 shutout innings and compiled 21 Ks)

Masahiro Tanaka, Yankees

  • 2015: 12-7 with a 3.51 ERA and 139 Ks in in 154 innings, 25 HRs allowed
  • The Astros scored six runs in five innings of a 9-6 loss at Minute Maid Park vs. Tanaka.

Season series: Astros won 4-3.

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Projected lineups

Astros

  1. 2B Jose Altuve (.313 BA, 40 doubles, 38 SB, 200 hits)
  2. RF George Springer (.276 BA, 16 SB)
  3. SS Carlos Correa (.279 BA, 22 HR, 68 RBI)
  4. DH Evan Gattis (.246 BA, 27 HR, 88 RBI, 11 triples)
  5. LF Colby Rasmus (.238 BA, 25 HR, 61 RBI)
  6. CF Carlos Gomez (.255 BA, 12 HR, 56 RBI, with Brewers and Astros) or Jake Marisnick (.236 BA, 24 SB)
  7. 3B Jed Lowrie (.222 BA)
  8. 1B Chris Carter (.199 BA, 24 HR, 64 RBI)
  9. C Jason Castro (.211 BA)

Yankees

  1. CF Jacoby Ellsbury (.257 BA, 21 SB)
  2. LF Chris Young (.252 BA, .327 avg. against lefties)
  3. RF Carlos Beltran (.276 BA, 19 HR, 67 RBI)
  4. DH Alex Rodriguez (.250, 33 HR, 86 RBI, 83 runs, .356 OBP)
  5. C Brian McCann (.232 BA, 26 HR, 94 RBI)
  6. 3B Chase Headley (.259 BA, 23 errors)
  7. 1B Greg Bird (.261 BA, 11 HR, 31 RBI in 157 AB)
  8. SS Didi Gregorius (.265 BA)
  9. 2B Rob Refsnyder (.302 BA in 43 at-bats)

Closers

  • Astros: RHP Luke Gregerson (7-3, 3.10, 31/36 saves)
  • Yankees: LHP Andrew Miller (3-2, 2.04, 36/38, 100 Ks in 61 2-3 innings)

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Of Note:

  • The Astros finished second in the majors with 230 home runs.
  • The Astros struggled on the road, going 33-48.
  • Astros OF Carlos Gomez plans to start despite sitting out the weekend series against the Arizona Diamondbacks with a strained left intercostal muscle.
  • The Yankees lost six of seven to end the season, going 11 for 68 (.161) with runners in scoring position.
  • The Yankees bullpen set a record for strikeouts by relievers in a season with 593.

AP contributed to this report

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