FANTASTIC!
Fan-tastic! Astros fan Kate Upton cheers on her man, Justin Verlander, in big win
Clifford Pugh
Oct 21, 2017, 2:58 am
Kate Upton cheers on the Astros in Game 6 of the ALCS. Bob Levey/Getty Images
Originally appeared on Culture Map/Houston.
It was high-fives all around as Kate Upton celebrated the Astros' 7-1 win over the New York Yankees Friday night in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series.
Casually dress in denim jeans, trucker jacket, and red blouse, the model was ensconced in a luxury box at Minute Maid Park with friends and family of her fiancé, Astros pitcher Justin Verlander, as she excitedly cheered on the team and her main man as the Astros triumphed in the "must-win" game to even the series at 3-3.
Afterward she posted this photo on her Instagram page:
The deciding game of the series will be played at Minute Maid Park tonight.
Upton, 25, and Verlander, 35, got engaged in 2016 after three years together. But they couple has not set a wedding date.
'"I'm really excited about the engagement and I'm really excited about getting married. It's just the wedding planning sucks," she told Extra at the premiere of her movie, The Layover, in August.
A one-time self-proclaimed Yankees fan before she met Verlander, Upton is leaving no doubt where her loyalties lie now. She has attended all three Astros games against the Yankees in Houston and boldly wore the Astros’ orange-and-blue colors while dining with a male friend at The Smith in New York's Flatiron District earlier this week, the New York Post reports.
And the newspaper dug out this quote: “I used to be a really big Yankees fan,” Upton said while serving as a guest host on Live! in 2014, a year into her relationship with Verlander, who was playing for the Detroit Tigers at the time. “But I’m sleeping with the enemy.”
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Oswald Peraza hit a two-run single in the ninth inning to help the Los Angeles Angels snap a three-game losing skid by beating the Houston Astros 4-1 on Saturday night.
Peraza entered the game as a defensive replacement in the seventh inning and hit a bases-loaded fly ball to deep right field that eluded the outstretched glove of Cam Smith. It was the fourth straight hit off Astros closer Bryan Abreu (3-4), who had not allowed a run in his previous 12 appearances.
The Angels third run of the ninth inning scored when Mike Trout walked with the bases loaded.
Kyle Hendricks allowed one run while scattering seven hits over six innings. He held the Astros to 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position, the one hit coming on Jesús Sánchez’s third-inning infield single that scored Jeremy Peña.
Reid Detmers worked around a leadoff walk to keep the Astros scoreless in the seventh, and José Fermin (3-2) retired the side in order in the eighth before Kenley Jansen worked a scoreless ninth to earn his 24th save.
Houston’s Spencer Arrighetti struck out a season-high eight batters over 6 1/3 innings. The only hit he allowed was Zach Neto’s third-inning solo home run.
Yordan Alvarez had two hits for the Astros, who remained three games ahead of Seattle for first place in the AL West.
Key moment
Peraza’s two-run single to deep right field that broke a 1-1 tie in the ninth.
Key Stat
Opponents were 5 for 44 against Abreu in August before he allowed four straight hits in the ninth.
Up next
Astros RHP Hunter Brown (10-6, 2.37 ERA) faces RHP José Soriano (9-9, 3.85) when the series continues Sunday.