Line Score – Game Over

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB
NYY 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 4 0 8 9 3 7
HOU 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 4 10 0 10

Box Score

HOU AB R H RBI BB SO BA
SS Peña 5 0 1 0 0 1 .305
LF Alvarez, Y 5 2 4 2 0 0 .273
DH Altuve 3 0 0 0 2 2 .269
3B Correa 5 0 2 0 0 1 .274
1B Walker, C 5 0 0 0 0 3 .233
C Diaz, Ya 3 0 0 0 1 1 .251
RF Smith 2 0 0 0 0 0 .242
RF Sánchez, J 2 1 1 1 0 0 .255
2B Urías, R 3 0 0 0 0 1 .250
PH Caratini 1 1 1 0 0 0 .268
CF Dubón 2 0 0 0 0 0 .249
CF Trammell 2 0 1 0 0 1 .208
HOU IP H R ER BB SO P-S ERA
Javier 4.1 6 4 4 3 4 78-46 4.43
De Los Santos, E 1.2 0 0 0 1 1 24-17 3.72
Kimbrel 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 13-7 0.00
Ort 0.2 3 4 4 2 1 27-16 4.89
Murray 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 14-12 0.00
NYY AB R H RBI BB SO BA
CF Grisham 5 2 2 3 0 1 .247
1B Rice 4 1 1 0 0 1 .245
1B Goldschmidt 1 0 1 0 0 0 .279
DH Judge 2 0 0 0 3 0 .322
RF Bellinger 5 0 1 1 0 1 .278
LF Stanton 3 0 0 0 1 1 .283
LF Domínguez 1 1 0 0 0 0 .253
2B Chisholm Jr. 2 0 0 0 0 1 .242
2B Caballero 2 0 0 1 1 1 .230
C Wells, A 2 2 0 0 2 1 .215
SS Volpe 4 0 1 0 0 1 .208
3B McMahon 4 2 3 3 0 0 .223
NYY IP H R ER BB SO P-S ERA
Rodón 6.0 3 2 1 2 3 109-69 3.12
Weaver 0.2 3 1 1 0 2 18-12 2.84
Cruz, F 1.1 1 0 0 0 3 18-12 2.72
Bednar 1.0 3 1 1 1 2 33-20 2.58

Scoring Plays

Inning Event Score
T2 Ryan McMahon singles on a line drive to right fielder Cam Smith. Austin Wells scores. Anthony Volpe to 2nd. 0-1
B3 Yordan Alvarez homers (5) on a fly ball to right center field. 1-1
T5 Ryan McMahon homers (19) on a fly ball to center field. 1-2
T5 Cody Bellinger singles on a ground ball to right fielder Cam Smith. Trent Grisham scores. Ben Rice to 3rd. Aaron Judge to 2nd. 1-3
T5 José Caballero walks. Ben Rice scores. Aaron Judge to 3rd. Cody Bellinger to 2nd. 1-4
B6 Astros challenged (force play), call on the field was upheld: Carlos Correa grounds into a force out, shortstop Anthony Volpe to second baseman José Caballero. Yordan Alvarez scores. Jose Altuve out at 2nd. Carlos Correa to 1st. Throwing error by second baseman José Caballero. 2-4
B7 Jesús Sánchez homers (13) on a fly ball to left field. 3-4
T8 Ryan McMahon singles on a ground ball to second baseman Ramón Urías, deflected by shortstop Jeremy Peña. Jasson Domínguez scores. Austin Wells to 3rd. 3-5
T8 Trent Grisham homers (30) on a fly ball to right field. Austin Wells scores. Ryan McMahon scores. 3-8
B9 Yordan Alvarez singles on a line drive to left fielder Jasson Domínguez. Victor Caratini scores. Taylor Trammell to 3rd. 4-8

Highlights

Description Length
Fielding alignment for Houston, September 4 vs Yankees 0:11
Bench availability for Houston, September 4 vs Yankees 0:08
Fielding alignment for New York, September 4 vs Astros 0:11
Bench availability for New York, September 4 vs Astros 0:08
Starting lineups for Yankees at Astros – September 4, 2025 0:10
Carlos Rodón's outing against the Astros 0:22
Analyzing Jesús Sánchez's home run through bat tracking 0:11
Measuring the stats on Trent Grisham's home run 0:13
A deep dive into Trent Grisham's home run 0:11
A deep dive into Yordan Alvarez's home run 0:11
Breaking down Yordan Alvarez's home run 0:13
Breaking down Cristian Javier's pitches 0:04
The distance behind Ryan McMahon's home run 0:13
Breaking down Carlos Rodón's pitches 0:04
Jesús Sánchez: Home Run Statcast Analysis 0:13
Cristian Javier strikes out Trent Grisham 0:06
Carlos Rodón fans Jose Altuve 0:06
Austin Wells walks on pitch clock violation 0:30
Ryan McMahon's RBI single 0:16
Mauricio Dubón's smooth running catch 0:30
Yordan Alvarez's solo home run (5) 0:30
Austin Well throws at Jose Altuve at second 0:30
Anthony Volpe's sweet running toss 0:30
Ryan McMahon's solo home run (19) 0:30
Cody Bellinger's RBI single 0:14
Pitch Clock Violation on the Astros 0:07
José Caballero's RBI walk on pitch clock violation 0:29
Astros' fourth Pitch Clock Violation of the game 0:19
Yordan Alvarez scores on error 0:30
Jazz Chisholm Jr. exits with knee contusions 2:01
Field View: Yordan Alvarez's home run 0:26
Yainer Diaz cuts down Aaron Judge at second base 0:17
Jesús Sánchez's solo home run (13) 0:30
Fernando Cruz strikes out Jose Altuve to escape jam 0:13
Ryan McMahon's second RBI single of the game 0:27
Trent Grisham's 100th career home run (30) 0:30
Jayden Murray's first Major League strikeout 0:06
Yordan Alvarez's RBI single 0:15
Anthony Volpe's leaping catch 0:08
Christian Walker strikes out swinging. 0:07

Decisions

Winning Pitcher Losing Pitcher Save
Rodón (16-7, 3.12 ERA) Javier (1-2, 4.43 ERA)

Game ended at 10:08 PM.

49 comments

  1. Naturally Christian Walker, the Living, Breathing Rally Killer, strikes out with the bases loaded, ending both the rally and the game.

  2. The only reason we aren’t still getting shut out is because of Yordan. The rest of the team is still straight dogwater. Anything other than a series win against the Rangers will be the nail in the coffin for any sort of hope of making it past the first round of the playoffs.

  3. Really sucks losing a series at home to some poverty franchise that hasn’t won a ring in over 15 years.

  9. Alvarez is literally the whole Astros offense. I’m jealous of basically any other teams offense.

  11. Swing at balls, sit on strikes. I seriously don’t understand our approach to the plate. Fire Cintron to the fucken moon. Please he’s God awful.

  12. Fitting we strike out twice with bases loaded.

    Our World Series this year is making the playoffs. This team just doesn’t have it.

  13. I don’t know about y’all but I’ve started reaching that “I don’t care anymore” stage where I stopped getting mad.

    This is just clearly who this team is. One of the least enjoyable Astros teams of recent memory. Thanks to Framber now the vibes are dead on top of everything else. Let’s just maybe see them limp into October and see what happens.

  15. I’m proud of us for putting something competitive together in the 9th. Gives me hope that the tides are turning. I won’t accept doomer hate

  18. Enjoy tying the season series Yankees. We all know how this will go if we meet in the playoffs.

    Not really too pressed about this, not like the Yankees are some shit team. Their two best pitchers started this series, they have the best offense for a reason. We just beat them back in August (July? Sometime) in their stadium and their bullpen is still shit

    I do think we are back to being the Roadstros though. The offense seems to be lost again at home and better on the road.

    Onto the Rags! Still have a 3.5 game lead

  20. At this point you have to wonder how frustrated the players are with the lack of hitting with RISP right? I mean what reasons could there possibly be for it other than poor coaching and plate approach? I would love to know what Cintron is actually planning for a game to game basis because he absolutely should not be here next year >:(

  21. All I’m asking for is to make it past the wild card round. I feel like even that is too much to ask for.

    EDIT: Also bring back protested games! I feel like this whole series should’ve been played under protest with this umpiring crew

  23. Yeah I’ve given up on the bye, let’s just hope we can somehow hang on to the division lead. Pitching is in a rough spot currently, but offense is still even worse. We are so incredibly unclutch and it doesn’t help that walker constantly ks and dubon grounds out on 2 pitches. Welp, let’s try to make it to and through the wc round at least

  24. As disappointing as it is to end the game with two inside the plate strikeouts (we really seem to like swinging at stuff that is pretty much impossible to hit), there’s a lot of positives to take from these last two games.

    The offense has been more consistent. It is obviously being driven by Yordan, but finally some other players are starting to get some hits. Feels like for the first time in a while like I expect us to put some runs on the board.

    If Ort hadn’t collapsed, it would have been a more winnable game.

    Also, the Yankees are a solid playoff team. We should use this as a launch pad for the next 3 weeks.

  30. Even after getting a little healthier and after deadline acquisitions, this offense has not really improved it’s arguably gotten worse

    This is extremely telling, but nothing will be done until the off-season

    This team has what it takes to be alot better but the direction the people in charge of getting the hitting ready is clearly detrimental

  31. All those games we dropped to the A’s and Rockies and other bottom feeders are looming large now.

  34. Yordan is literally holding this team together. In a close game, Espada should yank pitchers that give up runs and walks to avoid a four-run implosion. The dogmatic righty lefty batter and pitcher obsession doesn’t matter when only a few guys can reliably hit and a few guys can reliably pitch regardless of lefty or righty status.

    Congrats on the Pyrrhic Victory, Boone, where you unnecessarily wasted your bullpen on *this game*—where we still lead our division and it was clear you’d win anyway—when you have to catch a red eye flight where you squandered your better players and bullpen for your actually meaningful series against the Blue Jays who are the leaders of your NL East Division and who you actually need to beat tomorrow and this weekend. Good to see your bff Volpe is still a defensive nightmare who you will start at all costs. Good job with the bat check, though, you killed momentum in a game that you didn’t need to win and unnecessarily squandered Bednar’s arm. Sure, Astros lost the game but we still lead our division, unlike the Yankees, who squandered manpower and energy just in time for their series against the NL East division leaders.

  35. That has to be the worst officiated series I’ve ever seen.

    Conspiracy theory time. MLB has instructed the umpires to be as bad as possible so that when the ABS is live, even baseball purists will welcome it with open arms.

  37. Trammell sounded like he was about to cry in his post game interview 😭😭 It definitely felt like a petty, low blow to do that when they were up in the 9th by plenty AND to a former teammate. Poor guy. I want to give him a hug

  40. I figured the Yankees would be extra motivated tonight after the ump show last night. I don’t necessarily take it to mean anything for any potential future matchup but more concerning is that the Astros were playing from behind all series. I think Meyers returning will help if he can play at the level he was earlier this season but pitching remains a WIP and frankly, not good enough to be a championship team as it stands right now.

  41. This series showed that the ABS system with challenges can’t come soon enough and Yordan, and to some degree Peña, are basically our only dependable offense.

  43. Someone said it a couple of weeks ago. The team just doesn’t look hungry or desperate enough. They just walk up to bat and there seems to be no aggression, poor decisions, no fight, no nothing. And yes, I get they are in first, but it seems like an extremely low bar. I don’t see how they get past the first round.

  45. That was a really poorly played series. We only won 1 game because the Yankees self-destructed. And I’m not sure we can play any better.

  46. The only team in our division to win the season series vs the Jankees this year were the Angels 4-3.

    Mariners lost 5-1. Rags lost 4-2. A’s lost 4-2. We tied 3-3.

  47. Yordan and banking on the Mariners sh1tt1ng the bed, too, is not a sustainable winning strategy. We have got to rally and get locked in.

  48. I’m going to be so pissed off at this team if the bat testing thing amounts to something. I suspect Boone did it to rattle us, but just another random unexplained strange occurrence in this circus of a series.

  49. 1. Javier committed an error and walked someone on a timer violation, which led to the 1st run.
    2. Sac fly opportunity wasted
    3. Peña should have walked before the Yordan HR but two very low balls were called strikes.
    5. Enyel was solid but also committed a mistake that led to a run
    6. Altuve had two moments were he could have come in clutch but both times messed up.
    7. Ort threw this game by giving up 4 runs in .2 innings.
    8. Murray looked like he’d been here before. Super solid.
    8. The team showed some fight at the end. Even when were counted out they still put themselves in a position to do damage.

    The setup to score runs is there. It just the lack of clutch hitting that’s killing us. If we even converted 25% of the chances presented, this team would be dangerous.

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