NEW YORK — From the picture-perfect swing, to the nonchalant, but all-knowing gaze at the ball inflight, the “I can’t hear you!” hand-over-ear-gesture, and the pull-up jump shot along the third-base line, Carlos Correa delivered several moments for the ages.

As majestic as Sunday’s game-winning home run was, it can’t ignite an offense explosion that will return the Astros to regular season form.

That is what the Astros are hoping for. A jump-start. An igniter. Anything to get them going after they scored just three runs in the first two games of the American League Championship Series against the Yankees.

Thing is, baseball is so random, so different from day to day, there is no such thing as carryover.

When they go from Justin Verlander to Gerrit Cole, the Astros buck the adage about momentum being only as good as the next day’s starting pitcher. No other MLB team can do that.

Correa’s huge blast, the shot heard 'round the Grand Parkway, was wondrous. But when George Springer steps into the batter’s box Tuesday afternoon to leadoff Game 3, Correa’s homer, as well as the game-tying one Springer hit in the sixth inning Sunday, will be much farther away than the 1,600 miles between Minute Maid Park and Yankee Stadium.

It’ll be a 0-0 score with both teams starting from scratch.

Manager A.J. Hinch says he doesn’t see the Astros production as a “lack of offense,” but more a testament to how good the Yankees are. The competition is better and stakes higher, but Houston is a much better offensive team than it has shown this postseason.

The Astros have been held to three or fewer runs in five of seven games, including both ALCS contests, which is more than twice the rate of such games in the regular season.

A small sample size, certainly, but that’s the nature of playoff baseball. It can be short and sweet or short and tasty.

Odds are, the Astros are going to need to find more offense to win this series. Odds are they will.

We can play games with numbers if you like.

The Astros were shut out six times during the regular season. In the four games after being blanked, they averaged 22.5 runs.

If that math holds — after failing to score in Game 1 and managing just three runs in Game 2 — the Astros will post 19.5 runs in the three games at Yankee Stadium this week.

Oh yeah, Hinch would take that. He would even be willing to round down, letting the half a run slide.

But, come on. Facing the Yankees for the right to go to the World Series is a far cry from bouncing back from a shutout in Arlington to score 27 runs in the next three games against the Rangers.

While Astros fans enjoy celebrating wins over Dallasites, this is bigger than a Texas civil war.

Whether it is regular season, postseason, or even spring training, three runs in two games is not what this Astros squad expects.

They could start living up to expectations this afternoon against Yankees starter Luis Severino, who will be lucky to last five innings. Once again, Yankees manager Aaron Boone will likely shuffle the bullpen deck looking for aces to close out the Astros.

Wednesday’s Game 4 will be even more of a mess, with the Yankees and Astros both going with a bullpen day, which means these games could be clunky and lengthy. That’s not necessarily a good thing for a team that has struggled to string hits together.

Then again, forget what the odds say, with Cole on the mound Tuesday, it might not take a full-on assault. Correa’s heroics and a Springer Dinger were enough Sunday.

Correa and Michael Brantley are the only Astros with more than one hit in the first two games of the series. Yordan Alvarez, Robinson Chirinos and Yuli Gurriel are all 0-for-7, with Alvarez and Chirinos combining for eight strikeouts.

Overall, the Astros have just 10 hits compared to 20 strikeouts.

Instead of pressing, the Astros say they figure any number of them could come through with a big game at any time. And one or two will.

“When you're at this point in the season, I'll reiterate again to anybody that wants to listen, you don't have a lot of time for frustration,” Hinch said. “It means the world to these guys. They want to do well. We want to win. We want to get to the World Series.

“But the mood and the vibe … is exactly how it is when we're putting up ten runs. We're just going to keep getting to the next at-bat, keep letting the next hitter do his job, the pitching comes in.

“It's all about winning today's game. And our guys are responding perfectly to the difficulty in beating those guys.”