New York Yankees (33-27, second in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (40-20, first in the AL East)
San Diego; Tuesday, 8:10 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: New York: Deivi Garcia (3-2, 4.98 ERA in regular season) Tampa Bay: Tyler Glasnow (5-1, 4.08 ERA in regular season)
LINE: Rays favored by 1 1/2 runs; over/under is 8 runs
ALDS: New York leads the series 1-0
BOTTOM LINE: The Yankees will take a 1-0 series lead into Game 2 of the ALDS.
The Rays are 27-13 against teams from the AL East. Tampa Bay has a team batting average of .229 this postseason, Randy Arozarena has lead them with an average of .583, including four extra base hits.
The Yankees have gone 23-17 against division opponents. New York has a team slugging percentage of .675 this postseason, Giancarlo Stanton leads them with a mark of 1.091, including three extra base hits and seven RBIs.
REGULAR SEASON TOP PERFORMERS: Brandon Lowe leads the Rays with 52 hits and is batting .269.
Luke Voit leads the Yankees with 22 home runs and has 52 RBIs.
INJURIES: Rays: Chaz Roe: (elbow), Cody Reed: (finger), Colin Poche: (elbow), Andrew Kittredge: (elbow), Yonny Chirinos: (elbow), Jalen Beeks: (elbow), Jose Alvarado: (shoulder).
Yankees: Luis Severino: (elbow), James Paxton: (forearm), Tommy Kahnle: (forearm), Ben Heller: (bicep).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
