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    Bill Shaikin: Forgive and forget? Astros should go into World Series embracing their villainy

    HOUSTON — This is not just about the Dodgers. David Robertson never pitched for the Dodgers. He pitched for the New York Yankees in 2017, the year the Houston Astros cheated. The Yankees lost the American League Championship Series, and the Astros recorded all four of their victories in Houston, amid the percussion of trash cans. Three years later, when Major League Baseball sanctioned the ...
    by Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times Oct 27, 2022 4 minutes
    Try as they might, the Houston Astros and Lance McCullers Jr., above, can't avoid the boos that follow them around after the cheating scandal tainted their 2017 World Series win.

    HOUSTON — This is not just about the Dodgers. David Robertson never pitched for the Dodgers.

    He pitched for the New York Yankees in 2017, the year the Houston Astros cheated. The Yankees lost the American League Championship Series, and the Astros recorded all four of their victories in Houston, amid the percussion of trash cans. Three years later, when Major League Baseball sanctioned the Astros for cheating, Robertson called their behavior a “disgrace.”

    Robertson felt no differently Thursday, the day before he and the Philadelphia Phillies open the World Series against the Astros.

    He pitched for the Yankees in the 2009

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