The best way to get over a gross loss like last night is to deliver a big win the next day, and the Yankees have a great opportunity to do that against the Astros. Carlos Rodón will attempt to make his sixth straight start allowing two earned runs or less, and if he does that, New York might just walk away with a big series win.

Rodón has turned it on as the Yankees head into the final stretch of the season, as he and Max Fried were just about the only guys to show up in that series against Boston a couple weeks ago. He’s doing things a little different in that five-game streak mentioned above, running a 55-percent ground-ball rate and engineering some soft contact, which isn’t a bad approach against a team like Houston — they strike out less than all but six teams in MLB, so take their h

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