If nothing else, this season hasn’t been boring. Thursday night’s Yankees/Astros series finale was much more tense than the final 8-4 score would indicate, but New York did enough for a big win, taking two out of three from the hated Astros — even if umpire Brian Walsh tried his nonsense again.

In some ways, this was the Ryan McMahon Game, as the Trade Deadline acquisition had a couple big swings. First off was a single in the second inning that opened up the scoring:

This one was only 74.1 mph off the bat, but it was enough to get the job done — and Mac would flex a little harder in the fifth, the Yankees’ first big inning:

105 mph! You go Ryan!

A pair of singles and Aaron Judge’s walk loaded the bases after the big fly, leaving Cody Bellinger to make the impact hit:

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