Astros vs. Yankees 2017 live results: Score updates and highlights from ALCS Game 5

The Yankees have tied things up, and they still haven’t lost a game at home this postseason. They haven’t faced Dallas Keuchel at home yet, though...

The Yankees have done it: they’ve tied up the American League Championship Series at 2-2. They have yet to lose at home this postseason (and were an excellent 51-30 at home during the regular season), and Game 5 represents the final Yankee Stadium affair of the ALCS. They could very well go back to Houston with a series lead, just one win from the World Series.

Except, they’re facing Dallas Keuchel, who hasn’t allowed a run to the Yankees in the postseason in 13 career innings, and similarly has 1.41 regular season ERA against them over six starts and 44 2/3 frames. These are small samples all around, of course, but so is the Yankees’ postseason success at home, and now we get to pit the two against each other!

We’ll be live blogging the whole affair, starting at 5:08 p.m. ET. As usual, if you want to catch up from the beginning, scroll down to the “1st inning” header and work your way back up.

3rd inning

The inning begins with Joe Buck explaining to the audience that we missed the first pitch because FS1 didn’t come back from commercial fast enough, but I saw it. Was I the only one? Or did Buck just cover because FS1 came back basically as Tanaka was in his windup?

Either way, the first pitch was a strike, and so was the last one McCann saw. He struck out, and now it’s back to George Springer and the top of the Astros’ lineup. Springer singled on a fly ball to center that the Yankees miscommunicated on, bringing up Josh Reddick with just the one out.

Reddick worked a 3-2 count, which let Springer take off for second on the next pitch, and that helped the Astros avoid a double play. Springer is now at second, Altuve is up, and the Astros have something going with two down.

No luck for Altuve or the Astros here, however: another groundout, and another scoreless frame for Houston.

2nd inning

Yuli Gurriel is hitting .400/.438/.567 this postseason, which is [carries the 1] pretty good. He’s now hitting better than that, as he just laced a double to lead off the second. I’m not calculating how much better, Alex Bregman is already up and I don’t have time for such things.

Bregman grounds out, but moves Gurriel along to third base. Now it’s Carlos Beltran’s turn to try to drive him in. He fails in that, though, as he hits a grounder to an infield that’s in, keeping Gurriel stuck at third. Now there are two outs, and Marwin Gonzalez with the chance to turn Gurriel’s leadoff hit into a run.

Tanaka might have given up a hard-hit ball to start the top of the second, but Gonzalez’s grounder is the third such soft ball in play of the frame, and that’s it for Houston’s chances here.

Keuchel opens up the bottom of the second with a strikeout of Didi Gregorius. Aaron Hicks and Starlin Castro are still due up, with Greg Bird next in line should one of them reach.

Hicks grounded out on the first pitch, but Castro found a Keuchel fastball that caught too much of the strike zone and hit a double off the wall in left. The Yankees have a runner in scoring position for Bird. Unlike the Astros in the top half of the frame, New York capitalizes with a Bird single to right field. It’s 1-0 Yankees, Keuchel’s scoreless streak against the Yanks ends at 14-2/3 innings, and here’s Todd Frazier.

Keuchel ends the inning with a strikeout of Frazier, but the Yankees still got themselves an early lead.

1st inning

I didn’t mention Masahiro Tanaka in the intro, but mostly so I could do so here. He’s been great in his two starts so far, with the Yankees’ offense in Game 1 of the series the only reason he wasn’t a winner in both of his starts. He’ll face the usual top of the Astros lineup: George Springer, Josh Reddick, and Jose Altuve.

Springer takes Tanaka to the warning track, but Yankee Stadium somehow contains a fly ball in right field, and Aaron Judge managed to grab it without crashing into the wall.

Not everyone had as much luck defensively. Todd Frazier made an error on Altuve’s grounder to third, and now the Astros’ second baseman is safe at first, and Carlos Correa is up with two outs. He grounds to Frazier as well, and this time, it’s fielded cleanly, ending the top of the first.

Here’s Dallas Keuchel, who has 57 innings of crushing the Yankees in his career. That doesn’t mean he will again here in Game 5, but that history has to make Astros fans feel a lot better about having lost the last two games here in New York.

Keuchel starts things off well enough, Getting Brett Gardner to ground out on his second pitch, and then striking out the suddenly hitting very well in the ALCS Aaron Judge. The Astros do not have a Judge Plan like Cleveland did, and it shows.

Gary Sanchez also punches out, and that’s a scoreless first for both sides.