Houston is up 3-0 in the American League Championship Series.
Game 4 is Sunday night, once again at Yankee Stadium.
Javier went just one hit in five-and-a-third innings, striking out five batters.
Hector Neris, Ryan Stanek, Hunter Brown, Rafael Montero and Bryan Abreu completed the job.
The Yankees didn’t hit the safe again until the ninth, hitting two singles there.
Chas McCormick hit a two-run homer in the second inning.
Harrison Bader fumbled a fly ball to center field and McCormick, the ninth batter, followed it up with a long ball to opposite field.
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Astros manager Dusty Baker said of his club’s opportunism.
You have to convince yourself that here is the breach you were looking for. And it’s fascinating how things can come to fruition afterwards. It was a turning point in the match.
In the fifth, Trey Mancini hit a sacrifice fly and Christian Vazquez added a two-run single.
Jose Altuve hit a double in the fifth, halting a 0-for-25 drought since the start of the playoffs.
Defending champions of the American, the Astros won 106 games during the regular season.
Only the Los Angeles Dodgers did better, with 111.
Houston is set to play in the Fall Classic for the fourth time in six years.
Starting pitchers on Sunday will be Lance McCullers and Nestor Cortes.
There has only been one time a club has come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a series: Boston at the expense of the Yankees in the 2004 All-American Championship Series.
Aaron Judge heard boos after being struck out twice in a row mid-game.
A recent home run record holder with 62 home runs, Judge was 0 for 4 on Saturday night. His current playoff average is .156.
Of course we have expectations of him,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. But everyone has to contribute.
Gerrit Cole gave up five runs and five hits in as many innings.
