The Astros rode the arm of Dallas Keuchel and the bat of Jose Altuve to a 2-1 win over the Yankees on Friday night at Minute Maid Park in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series presented by Camping World.
Keuchel spun seven scoreless innings, and Altuve notched three hits while also scoring the game's first run, during the Astros' two-run fourth. Houston, which improved to 4-1 this postseason, will try to extend its series lead in Game 2 Saturday.
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In the meantime, here are some notable facts and figures from a hotly contested Game 1:
• The Yanks rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the AL Division Series presented by Doosan against the Indians, so they are fully capable of staging a comeback. With that said, history favors the Astros. Since the Championship Series expanded to a best-of-seven format in 1985, Game 1 winners have advanced to the World Series 40 of 62 times. That includes 22 of 33 clubs that took Game 1 at home. Since 2007, nine of the 10 Game 1 home winners have advanced, with the 2011 Brewers (vs. the Cardinals) the exception. In 2015 and '16, all four LCS G 1s were won by the home team, and all four went on to win the series as well.
• Didi Gregorius (Yankees) and Carlos Correa (Astros) became the first pair of shortstops to bat cleanup in the same game in postseason history, but they combined to go 1-for-8.
• This is the Yanks' 16th appearance in an ALCS, the most among all franchises and three ahead of the Cardinals.
Keuchel carves up Yanks
• Keuchel is the first pitcher in history to record two scoreless postseason starts with at least seven strikeouts against the Yankees. The other came in the 2015 AL Wild Card Game, when he shut down New York at Yankee Stadium with six scoreless frames and seven strikeouts. Keuchel has 13 consecutive scoreless innings against the Yanks in those two October starts.
Lew Burdette -- who pitched for the Milwauee Braves in the 1957 World Series -- and Keuchel are the only pitchers to post consecutive scoreless starts against the Yankees in postseason play.
• Keuchel also joined some exclusive company in club history. His 10 strikeouts were the most by an Astros starter in a postseason game since Nolan Ryan fanned 12 in Game 5 of the 1986 NLCS. Keuchel joined Ryan and Mike Scott (14 strikeouts in Game 1 of the '86 NLCS) as the only Astros starters to notch double-digit strikeouts in a postseason start, and he's the first Houston left-hander to do it.

• Keuchel joined an exclusive club Friday. The Rangers' Cliff Lee (2010 ALCS), D-backs' Randy Johnson (2001 World Series) and Red Sox's Pedro Martinez (1999 ALCS) are the only other pitchers to strike out at least 10 while throwing at least seven scoreless innings in a postseason start against the Yanks.
• Keuchel lowered his career ERA in postseason starts to 0.70 (two earned runs in 25 2/3 innings). That's the lowest ERA of any pitcher in MLB history with at least four postseason starts. Blue Moon Odom (0.71 ERA in four starts) is second, followed by Sandy Koufax (0.98 ERA in seven starts).

• Keuchel became the first left-hander to post double-digit strikeouts over at least seven scoreless innings in the League Championship Series since Lee did in 2010.
• Keuchel has struck out at least seven hitters in each of his four career postseason starts. He's the second pitcher to do that. Hall of Famer and former Cardinals great Bob Gibson is the other.
• Keuchel was able to get through seven scoreless innings thanks in large part to left fielder Marwin Gonzalez, who unleashed a 97.4-mph throw to cut Greg Bird down at the plate to end the fifth inning. It was the second consecutive game with an outfield assist for Gonzalez, who became the first left fielder to accomplish the feat in the postseason since Jim Rice in the 1986 World Series, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Altuve amazes again
• Altuve paced the Astros' offense with his third three-hit game of this postseason, a franchise record. He already is one away from tying the single-postseason record of four, held by Jose Pujols (2004 Cardinals), Edgar Martinez (1995 Mariners) and Jay Buhner ('95 Mariners).
• Altuve is the first player since Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki in 2001 to record three or more hits in at least three of his team's first five postseason games in a year.
• Altuve's four career three-hit postseason games also are an Astros record. He previously went 3-for-5 in Game 1 of the 2015 ALDS against the Royals.

Final thoughts
• Houston's Yuli Gurriel singled in the fourth inning and now has a base hit in each of his first five career postseason games, tying Chris Burke's franchise record, set in 2005.
• The Astros finished with six hits, all of them singles, becoming the first team this postseason to win a game without notching an extra-base hit.
• Houston struck out just five times while its pitchers notched 14 K's. It was the Yankees' sixth straight game striking out at least 10 times since Game 1 of the ALDS, making them the first team in postseason history to do that.