With two outs and runners on first and second, stepping up to bat was the forr All-Star third baseman Todd Frazier:
Facing a pitch from Charlie Morton — a high-quality, almost lethal fastball at a wickedly low outside corner, clocked at 95 mph — Todd Frazier incredibly pushed it to right field for a three-run hor, expanding the Yankees' lead to five!
From the replay broadcast, it was clear that Frazier didn't even exert his full strength, almost solely relying on the power of his arms to scoop the ball from the lower edge of the strike zone — even though Yankee Stadium's right field is notoriously short, sending such a ball into the stands was astonishing.
In the ho team's dugout, even top hitters like Aaron Judge and Lin Guanglai couldn't help but applaud their teammate's three-run blast.
The impact of Todd Frazier's three-run hor was enormous, as it not only boosted the already commanding Yankees playing at ho but also nailed the final coffin in for the Astros, who were already halfway buried:
Even Jose Altuve's eyes lost their usual luster, his backbone completely shattered.
Nonetheless, the Yankees' batters weren't about to let up; sticking to the ntality of "beating a dog when it's down," they continued their aggressive offense, widening the score gap:
6-0, 7-0, 8-0… By the ti Lin Guanglai stepped into the batter's box again in the later innings, the score had astonishingly expanded to 13-0, and all bases were loaded by the Yankees — mind you, this was the Arican League Championship Series, and their opponent was none other than the regular season's 101-win Astros!
However, even such a team seed like a stray dog on the roadside, kicked to death in front of a Yankees team that had gained montum and found their rhythm.
As the Astros' manager, A.J. Hinch didn't bother walking Lin Guanglai this ti: with the ga already like this, what was there left to protect?
Lin Guanglai's response was simple: with a bases-clearing triple, he brought all his teammates on base back ho.
"No suspense, no suspense!" Comntators in the Bronx studio, many of whom were on-site, exclaid with this sentint, "In the third ga of the Arican League Championship Series, the Yankees returned ho and demolished the Astros 16-0, thoroughly humiliating their opponents on both offense and defense — and with this victory, the series lead now stands at 3-0!"
"The only pity was that Lin's final shot was just a little short of clearing the park; otherwise, it would have been his ninth ho run in these playoffs, surpassing players like Carlos Beltran and Barry Bonds, and claiming the title of single-season playoff ho run king."
"But judging by the current situation, I don't think we'll have to wait much longer... Dear viewers, six o'clock tomorrow evening Eastern Ti, right here again, see you there!"
"Since the modern MLB frawork was essentially ford in 1903, only one team has ever completed the miraculous coback from a 3-0 series deficit — and the backdrop of that series was indeed the New York Yankees."
"With the series on the brink, can the Yankees, playing at ho, sweep the Houston Astros and advance to the World Series for the first ti in 8 years since 2009, aiming for their 28th world championship?"
"Let's wait and see!"
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