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Let me confess bias. I adore watching a dominant ace, one of those pitchers who in the flower of his power and guile imposes his will on a powerful adversary.
So I sat to watch the Astros' ace of aces, Gerrit Cole, take on the Yankees, and their fearsome, stuffed to the gills power lineup. For an inning it appeared Cole’s day would end early.
The Yankees first baseman, the .327 hitting magician D.J. LeMahieu, stroked a 99 mile per hour fastball to center. Then Aaron Judge hit a cue shot of a single.