Preview: Rays look to run win streak to 3 as series vs. Yankees begins
TV: FOX Sports Sun
TIME: Pregame coverage begins at 6:30 p.m.
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Tampa Bay Rays (14-9, second in the AL East) vs. New York Yankees (16-6, first in the AL East)
PITCHING PROBABLES
Rays: Blake Snell (1-0, 2.08 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 20 strikeouts)
Yankees: Masahiro Tanaka (0-0, 2.31 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 11 strikeouts)
BOTTOM LINE
The New York Yankees play the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday.
The Yankees went 54-22 in division play in 2019. New York averaged 9.2 hits with 3.8 extra base hits per game and 306 total home runs last year.
The Rays went 44-32 in division play in 2019. Tampa Bay hit .254 as a team with 3.3 extra base hits per game and 217 total home runs last season.
The teams meet for the fourth time this season. Tampa Bay leads the season series 3-1.
INJURIES
Yankees: Luis Severino: (elbow), Tommy Kahnle: (forearm), Aaron Judge: (lower body), DJ LeMahieu: (thumb), Giancarlo Stanton: (left hamstring), Kyle Higashioka: (right oblique).
Rays: Colin Poche: (elbow), Charlie Morton: (shoulder), Andrew Kittredge: (elbow), Oliver Drake: (right biceps), Yonny Chirinos: (right triceps), Jose Alvarado: (shoulder).
