NEW YORK -- Houston Astros right fielder Josh Reddick braced himself for the abuse at Yankee Stadium, and has always been able to take the verbal insults, but objects thrown at him before the eighth inning Tuesday night infuriated him.

“There’s no place in the game for that type of thing,’’ Reddick said after the Astros’ 4-1 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series. “I think I saw seven or eight water bottles out in the outfield, and two souvenir baseballs thrown from center field to left. It’s scary.

"I don’t think a lot of people realize how scary that can really be. You throw a baseball hard enough, hit somebody in the head when we’re not looking, it can do some damage to you as a player. You throw a baseball from the third deck, it’s got a little bit of movement on it.

“It’s frustrating to see that as a player in the outfield. We’re usually the ones throwing stuff at you.

“It’s definitely disrespectful, and at the same time, very unsafe.’’

Reddick, who homered in the second inning, said he heard fans screaming, “You suck,’’ at him for nine innings. Yet, it was no different, he said, than at any other time he has played at Yankee Stadium throughout his 12-year career.

“They’re all yelling at the same time so it all kind of mumbles together.

“There’s a lot of expletives in there, but stuff I can’t repeat.’’

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Really, the only compliment Reddick could give the fans is their ability to navigate the internet and research his personal life.

“They use Google really well,’’ said Reddick, with the fans knowing his wife’s name, and even aware that they just had new twin sons. “They’ve always been harsh on me. It’s brutal.’’

Astros manager A.J. Hinch informed the umpiring crew of the fan abuse, and the Yankees responded with a public-service announcement reminding the sell-out crowd of 48,998 that throwing objects on the field could result in ejections.

Still, Reddick had his doubts that anything would happen, critical of security Monday in an interview with the Houston Chronicle.

“The most frustrating part is there’s no action taken,” Reddick said. “You look at the security guards, they’re just watching, not saying a thing to anybody. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were the ones helping to say that. It’s just a matter of circumstance to where they just let it ride.”

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