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Maybe it wasn’t just the garbage can.
As the Astros play in their second World Series in three years — and third in the last five — it’s hard to pin their success solely on the sign-stealing scandal of 2017.
Just two years ago, the Yankees and Astros played in a tightly matched ALCS that Houston won in six games, punctuated by Jose Altuve’s series-clinching homer off Aroldis Chapman at Minute Maid Park.