NEW YORK — This, the sound of a few electronics buzzing and the chatter of reporters clamoring for space, is what it sounds like when a baseball team realizes it simply isn’t good enough. This, a near-empty postgame clubhouse with no one sitting at his locker and chatting, with stars coming in briefly to pull on their hoodies and sneakers and grab their bags, is what it looks like when a team that is supposed to win every October without fail is faced with the reality that it is simply not built to do so this time.This, the shaking of heads and recital of cliches, is all the New York Yankees can offer now, after a 5-0 loss to the Houston Astros in Game 3 of an American League Championship Series they now trail three games to none. Only one team in baseball history, the Boston Red Sox, has recovered from a deficit like that — and they don’t really use that comeback as a rallying cry around these parts.“We got to find a way right now,” Yankees Manager Aaron Boone said. “We know what we’re up against.”What they’re up against is an Astros team that is 6-0 in this…
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Yankees simply run out of answers for the Astros, who seize control of ALCS
