![]() Ryan Pressly walked one in a scoreless ninth, striking out three for his second save of the series. He also helped end the Yankees' record run of 23 straight postseason games with a home run.īryan Abreu pitched a scoreless eighth. But those are all things that we work on and just continue working hard to be able to focus better and get better in the game.”įeaturing a mix of pitches, Valdez got 25 swings and misses. “I probably would have lost all focus there at that moment. “Back in 2019 I probably would have been done with the game,” he said in Spanish through a translator. Valdez, who often talks about his maturation, said he would have been undone by his fourth-inning miscues a few years ago. Valdez allowed just one baserunner after that inning on a single to Harrison Bader with two outs in the fifth and retired the last seven hitters he faced, capped by striking out the side in the seventh. The only runs New York mustered were unearned, coming in the fourth after a flustered Valdez committed two errors on the same play.īut he quickly moved past the gaffe and shut down the powerful Yankees lineup the rest of the way. Valdez allowed just four hits, walked none and struck out nine. So just trying to scratch and claw and battle and try and fight.” “They got a really tough pitching staff over there,” Bregman said. “I think the roof open kind of killed us,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said, later adding, "I didn’t think like he smoked it like no-doubter, but it felt like his homers to right.Ī night after Justin Verlander fanned 11 in a 4-2 win in Game 1, Valdez turned in another solid pitching performance and Bregman's third-inning homer was all the offense Houston needed. The ball would've landed in the short right-field porch at Yankee Stadium, Statcast showed - with the roof open at Minute Maid Park, the wind might've knocked down Judge's bid. ![]() Yankees slugger Aaron Judge just missed a two-run homer in the eighth when his drive was caught just in front of the short wall by right fielder Kyle Tucker. We would like to get everybody hot before it’s over with,” Astros manager Dusty Baker said. The Astros improved to 5-0 this postseason after a sweep to begin this best-of-seven matchup. Taking the formula that won them 106 games in the regular season - strong pitching and hitting home runs - the Astros kept rolling against the New York Yankees.īregman connected for an early three-run homer, Valdez threw seven strong innings and the Astros edged the Yankees 3-2 Thursday night to take a 2-0 lead in the AL Championship Series. I’m very much looking forward to continuing to work on Ambience and The Blockheads, there’s some exciting stuff ahead.HOUSTON - Alex Bregman, Framber Valdez and the Houston Astros are off to a perfect start this postseason. And also thanks to everyone who played or used some of my smaller experiments like DuckDuckDuck, Sand Pictures and Fluid Noise Generator. Many thanks to everyone who purchased and played Chopper and Chopper 2 over the years. I’ve moved on from Chopper and Chopper 2, and so has the landscape of the App Store. Given the potential number of sales and number of current players, my time is better spent elsewhere. I investigated what it would take to bring Chopper 2 up to date, and it would be a major job. More and more things have stopped working correctly, so I no longer feel the experience offered to customers is one that I am proud of. A few years later, Chopper for iPhone allowed me to quit my day job and work on my own games as an indie developer, which I’ve now been doing for near on a decade since.īut for some time now Chopper, Chopper 2, and all of my other older games and apps have been left without updates, and have slowly faded. Chopper for Mac got me off the unemployment benefit by helping to secure me my first software development job. Over the past 13 years it has been played by millions of people, been featured multiple times by Apple and the tech press, and totally transformed my life. And of course my new game Ambience is on the horizon.Ĭhopper was my first released game, launched for the Mac in 2003, and then for iPhone when the App Store went live in July 2008. ![]() The only game I’ll be supporting and keeping available is The Blockheads, which won’t be going away any time soon. Today I finally made the difficult decision to remove Chopper and Chopper 2, and all of my other old apps from the iOS and Mac App Stores.
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