A capsule take a look at the best-of-five playoff collection between the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays in San Diego starting Monday:

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Season Sequence: Rays gained 8-2.

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NEW YORK YANKEES

File: 33-27.

Playoff Entry: second place, AL East.

Playoff Seed: No. 5.

Supervisor: Aaron Boone (third season).

Projected Rotation: RHP Gerrit Cole (7-3, 2.84 ERA, 94 Ks), RHP Masahiro Tanaka (3-3, 3.56, 44 Ks), LHP J.A. Happ (2-2, 3.47, 42 Ks), RHP Deivi Garcia (3-2, 4.98, 33 Ks in 34 1/Three IP as rookie).

High Hitters: 1B Luke Voit (.277, main league-leading 22 HRs, 52 RBIs), 2B DJ LeMahieu (main league-leading .364, 10, 27, 41 runs, 10 doubles, 1.011 OPS).

High Relievers: LHP Aroldis Chapman (1-1, 3.09 ERA, Three saves), LHP Zack Britton (1-2, 1.89, Eight saves). RHP Chad Inexperienced (3-3, 3.51, 1 save, 32 Ok in 25 2/Three IP).

Sequence Abstract: The Yankees are within the playoffs for the fourth straight 12 months however nonetheless searching for their first pennant since successful the 2009 World Sequence. … Favored to win the AL East, the Yankees alternated cold and hot spurts: a 16-6 begin following by a 5-15 slide, a 10-game successful streak and 6 losses of their final eight video games. … Performed significantly better within the Bronx, going 22-9 at dwelling and 11-18 on the street. … Offense was reliant on dwelling runs, with 156 of 315 runs scoring on lengthy balls in the course of the common season, in accordance with the Elias Sports activities Bureau, then 13 of 22 runs scoring on seven homers within the two-game sweep at Cleveland throughout first spherical of playoffs. The wild 10-9 win in Sport 2 was the longest nine-inning sport in main league historical past at Four hours, 50 minutes. … Giancarlo Stanton hit .200 with one homer, 4 RBIs and 16 strikeouts in 35 at-bats after returning Sept. 15 from greater than a month on the injured checklist with a strained left hamstring, then homered in every sport vs. the Indians. … Aaron Decide additionally slumped after returning Sept. 16 from a strained proper calf, with no homers and two RBIs, then was 1 for 9 with an early dwelling run in opposition to Cleveland. … New York’s fielding share was its worst since 1973. … Backup catcher Kyle Higashioka will begin behind the plate within the collection opener once more as Gary Sanchez sits. Cole had a 1.00 ERA whereas pitching to Higashioka (three earned runs in 27 innings) and a 3.91 ERA whereas pitching to Sanchez (20 earned runs in 46 innings) in the course of the common season, then allowed two runs over seven innings with 13 Ks and no walks whereas pitching to Higashioka in Sport 1 in opposition to Cleveland. Cole and Higashioka have identified one another since enjoying on a scout workforce collectively as youngsters in Southern California. … The massive-budget Yankees misplaced the season collection to the thrifty Rays for the primary time since 2014. New York hit .218 with 13 homers in opposition to Tampa Bay, averaging 3.Four runs per sport. Yankees pitchers had a 4.84 ERA vs. the Rays, permitting 47 runs and 16 homers. … Tampa Bay is 56-41 at dwelling in opposition to the Yankees since 2010, successful its dwelling season collection 9 instances with one break up.

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TAMPA BAY RAYS

File: 40-20.

Playoff Entry: AL East champions.

Playoff Seed: No. 1.

Supervisor: Kevin Money (sixth season).

Projected Rotation: LHP Blake Snell (4-2, 3.24 ERA, 63 Ks in 50 IP), RHP Tyler Glasnow (5-1, 4.08, 91 Ks in 57 1/Three IP), RHP Charlie Morton (2-2, 4.74, 42 Ks in 38 IP).

High Hitters: 2B Brandon Lowe (.269, 14 HRs, 37 RBIs, 36 runs, .916 OPS), SS Willy Adames (.259, 8, 23, .813 OPS).

High Relievers: RHP Nick Anderson (2-1, 0.55 ERA, 6 saves), RHP Pete Fairbanks (6-3, 2.70), RHP Diego Castillo (3-0, 1.66, Four saves).

Sequence Abstract: The Rays are AL East champions for first time since 2010, third time total. They gained 9 of their closing 11 regular-season video games, ending 20 video games over .500 and finishing one of the best 60-game begin to a season in franchise historical past. It additionally matched one of the best 60-game stretch the membership has had at any level in a season. … Counting their two-game sweep of the wild-card Blue Jays within the first spherical of the playoffs, the Rays enter the ALDS on an eight-game successful streak. … It’s Tampa Bay’s sixth journey to the ALDS since 2008. Solely the Dodgers (10), Yankees (8), Purple Sox (8) and Cardinals (7) have made extra Division Sequence appearances throughout that span. … The win over Toronto ended a streak of 5 consecutive losses in multi-game postseason collection courting to the 2008 World Sequence. … Injured OF Austin Meadows (left indirect pressure), a first-time All-Star in 2019, missed the wild-card spherical however is perhaps nearing a return. … Onerous emotions between the Yankees and Rays date to at the least March 2008, after they clashed in spring coaching, and tempers have flared repeatedly over the previous few years following inside pitches. Tampa Bay gamers put on T-shirts with 4 horses lined up behind a fence, a reference to Money declaring ”I’ve bought a complete rattling secure full of fellows that throw 98 miles an hour” in response to Chapman throwing a 101 mph pitch close to Mike Brosseau’s head on Sept. 1. That earned the nearer a three-game suspension that is still beneath attraction. Each managers had been suspended for one sport apiece. … The Rays thrived this season regardless of accidents that compelled Money to juggle his rotation and tinker with bullpen roles. The workforce had 12 pitchers earn at the least one save, matching the foremost league report set by the 1973 Rangers. Fairbanks turned the 13th within the playoffs, selecting up a save in Sport 1 in opposition to the Blue Jays. … A resilient workforce, the Rays led the AL with 20 comeback wins. … Tampa Bay is within the postseason in consecutive years for the second time. The Rays beat Oakland within the 2019 AL wild-card sport earlier than shedding to Houston within the Division Sequence.

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