The New York Yankees’ 2015 post-season lasted just one game as the Houston Astros blanked them 3-0 in the American League wildcard game on Tuesday night to advance to their first ALe Division Series in a decade.

Dallas Keuchel was the star for the Astros on the night, keeping the Yankees scoreless in the first six innings of the game while Colby Rasmus and Carlos Gomez also scored solo home runs in the second and fourth innings respectively. Closer Luke Gregerson backed up Keuchel well in the final three innings as the much vaunted Yankee offense failed to fire in its most important game of the season.

Both scored their homers off the Yankees’ starter Masahiro Tanaka, who was attacked aggressively right from the start by the Astros. CC Sabathia, who was expected to start Tuesday’s game for the Yankees, was missed in the rotation after he decided to skip the post-season and instead check into rehab for alcohol addiction.

Alex Rodriguez, who made an impressive return to the Yankees after being banned for using performance enhancing drugs, had a chance to tie the score in the sixth inning when the Yankees had two runners on base, but all it took was one pitch for Keuchel to get him out, with Rodriguez handing out an easy catch to Gomez at centre, who had earlier extended Houston’s lead.

"Never would I imagine that I would have pitched that well or we would have played that well in Yankee Stadium, on that big a stage. But that’s what we’ve been doing all year. "Believe it or not, I probably couldn’t have been calmer. I don’t know what it was. I think I thought about it all day. I was just trying to breathe and keep calm the whole time, and it worked out. I was calm. I felt great. I didn’t know what to do when he hit the ground ball to short. Carlos threw it to first, I froze for a second. I didn’t know what to do. I just went to the person with the ball. But to come in there and close out the game in Yankee Stadium is something I’ll never forget,” Keuchel told ESPN after the game.

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