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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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Jake Meyers is the latest Astro to be rushed back from injury too soon. Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images.
Houston center fielder Jake Meyers was removed from Wednesday night’s game against Cleveland during pregame warmups because of right calf tightness.
Meyers, who had missed the last two games with a right calf injury, jogged onto the field before the game but soon summoned the training staff, who joined him on the field to tend to him. He remained on the field on one knee as manager Joe Espada joined the group. After a couple minutes, Meyers got up and was helped off the field and to the tunnel in right field by a trainer.
Mauricio Dubón moved from shortstop to center field and Zack Short entered the game to replace Dubón at shortstop.
Meyers is batting .308 with three homers and 21 RBIs this season.
After the game, Meyers met with the media and spoke about the injury. Meyers declined to answer when asked if the latest injury feels worse than the one he sustained Sunday. Wow, that is not a good sign.
Asked if this calf injury feels worse than the one he sustained on Sunday, Jake Meyers looked toward a team spokesman and asked "do I have to answer that?" He did not and then politely ended the interview.
— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) July 10, 2025
Lack of imaging strikes again!
The Athletic's Chandler Rome reported on Thursday that the Astros didn't do any imaging on Meyers after the initial injury. You can't make this stuff up. This is exactly the kind of thing that has the Astros return-to-play policy under constant scrutiny.
The All-Star break is right around the corner, why take the risk in playing Meyers after missing just two games with calf discomfort? The guy literally fell to the ground running out to his position before the game started. The people that make these risk vs. reward assessments clearly are making some serious mistakes.
The question remains: will the Astros finally do something about it?