News about Frankie Montas

Justin Verlander regained control after a rough start to his outing, and the Houston Astros thrashed three home runs en route to a 4-2 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series on Wednesday. Yuli Gurriel, Chas McCormick, and Jeremy Pena all slugged solo home runs for the Astros, who will host Game 2 in the best-of-seven series on Thursday. Verlander (1-0) needed 66 pitches to complete three innings, with 22 of them in the first inning as he left two baserunners stranded.

On Wednesday, the New York Yankees made three additions to their American League Championship Series roster, including the exclusion of injured outfielder Aaron Hicks. Frankie Montas, infielder Oswald Peraza, and right-hander Greg Weissert were among the Yankees' new additions. After injuring his knee in Tuesday night's Game 5 of the AL Division Series, Hicks is out for the remainder of the season and beyond. He'll be out for six weeks.

After officially finishing August with a 10-18 record, the New York Yankees will hope to have turned a corner ahead of their final month of the regular MLB season, after the Detroit Tigers (9-18). On Wednesday, the Yankees led 2-0 going into the sixth inning, before Shohei Ohtani's error and a homerun turned the game's outcome. That was the nail in the coffin for the Yankees' miserable last 31 days. Since September 1991 (9-19,.321): The franchise hasn't had such a poor winning percentage (.357) in a single month.

The New York Yankees hung on for a 4-2 victory over the New York Mets on Tuesday night to win a season split of the Subway Series. For the third straight game since July 28-30, the Yankees won their third straight game, and Andrew Benintendi scored a key hit for the third straight game. In the fourth and a run-scoring single later in the seventh off former Yankee Adam Ottavino, Aaron Judge hit a 453-foot home run halfway up the bleachers for his major league-leading 48th homer.