Verlander strikes out 11 to lead Astros over Yankees 4-2 in ALCS

Verlander strikes out 11 to lead Astros over Yankees 4-2 in ALCS

For someone outside of baseball sports it really must sound like a overheard ham communication from some Martians in a real star war or so. lol

@Sven - I was thinking the opposite: if there's one piece of baseball vocabulary that even people who know nothing about the game are familiar with, it's the 'strikeout', in which the batter swings and misses (or fails to swing at a good pitch) three times. A perfect headline for a story about a baseball game.

The 'ALCS' is the American League Championship Series, in which two teams play for the right to represent the American League and face off against the National League's winner, to see which team will be champion of the baseball world next week.