The Yankees will likely be answering plenty of questions about the Astros over the next eight months after being eliminated by Houston in the ALCS for the third time in six seasons.
Are they finally good enough to close the gap after the four-game sweep? It appeared to be as large a gap as at any point during the recent rivalry as the third installment of the playoff matchup wasn’t particularly a close contest either, just ask Gerrit Cole.
“I mean, we got waxed,” Cole said Thursday at George M Steinbrenner Field in Tampa. “Anytime you get waxed, it doesn’t feel good, whether you’re going to the salon or you’re on the baseball field.”
