Japanese lefty Yusei Kikuchi, who gave the Houston Astros a boost in their push to the postseason, will not pitch in the playoffs after his team was swept Wednesday in Major League Baseball's playoffs.The Detroit Tigers wrapped up their best-of-three American League wildcard series at Houston's Minute Maid Park with a 5-2 win after Andy Ibanez's tie-breaking three-run eighth-inning double.Kikuchi, who went 5-1 with a 2.70 ERA since a late-July trade brought him to Houston from the Toronto Blue Jays, was one of three starting pitchers on the Astros' roster but Houston's eighth straight posts…READ FULL ARTICLE
