The Yankee Stadium crowd waited all night to get excited, but Dallas Keuchel hardly took his foot off the Yankees’ offense throat.
Finally, with two outs in the sixth, the Yankees got their first — and only — rally of the night with runners on first and second and two out and Alex Rodriguez coming to the plate.
“I thought that was going to be the moment for us that was going to turn it around, but it [wasn’t],” manager Joe Girardi said after the Yankees went meekly in Tuesday’s wild-card game 3-0 to the Astros in The Bronx.