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The Astros were seeded #2 in the AL, the result of attaining the second-most wins in the league. Their first playoff game of 2017 was in the American League Division Series, versus the Boston Red Sox. It was the first time the Astros had faced the Red Sox in the postseason.
The 2017 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2017 postseason pitting the second-seeded Houston Astros against the fourth-seeded New York Yankees for the American League pennant and the right to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2017 World Series. The Astros defeated the Yankees in seven ...
Carlos Correa and George Springer ignited a spark in the Astros’ offense in Game 2 as they blew out the Red Sox again to take a 2–0 series lead headed to Fenway Park. The Red Sox blew out the Astros in Game 3 to get on the board in the series. In Game 4, Verlander outdueled Chris Sale again as the Astros won by one run to close out the series.
The Astros' Justin Verlander won Games 2 and 6 in the 2017 American League championship series against the New York Yankees, allowing just one run in 16 innings and winning series MVP honors.
The Astros in total have completed 61 seasons in Major League Baseball, qualifying for the postseason sixteen times and reaching the World Series five times (2005, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022) with two world championships (2017, 2022). The team was established as an expansion franchise in 1962, one of eight teams that was created in the decade.
He then retired the side to send the Astros to their first American League Championship Series and their first postseason series win since 2005. The Red Sox were knocked out of the playoffs in the first round for the second year in a row, having been swept by the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 American League Division Series. [17]
As far-fetched as the idea seemed at the time, the Astros are now on the cusp of history, years past their seasons of losing 105 games. A mocked 2014 Sports Illustrated cover predicted the Houston ...
In the story, [Astros general manager] Jeff Luhnow says "When you're in 2017, you don't really care that much about whether you lost 98 or 107 in 2012. You care about how close we are to winning a ...