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New York Yankees<\/a> (8-4, first in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (5-7, third in the AL East)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Yankees: Luis Gil<\/a> (0-0); Rays: Steven Matz<\/a> (2-0, 4.09 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 10 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Yankees -147, Rays +123; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays begin a three-game series at home against the New York Yankees on Friday.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay is 5-7 overall and 1-2 at home. The Rays have the ninth-best team slugging percentage in MLB<\/a> play at .379.<\/p>\n

New York is 5-1 on the road and 8-4 overall. The Yankees have a 4-0 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season between the two teams.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yandy Diaz<\/a> has a double, a triple and two home runs for the Rays. Chandler Simpson<\/a> is 15 for 39 with a triple over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Aaron Judge<\/a> leads the Yankees with three home runs while slugging .444. Giancarlo Stanton<\/a> is 12 for 39 with two doubles, a home run and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 5-5, .241 batting average, 4.60 ERA, outscored by 11 runs<\/p>\n

Yankees: 6-4, .192 batting average, 2.83 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rays: Garrett Cleavinger: 15-Day IL (calf), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Gavin Lux: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Yankees: Gerrit Cole: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Rodon<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Volpe<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Yankees (8-4, first in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (5-7, third in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[106,1205,5,2004,457,1216,6925,75686,310,2277,19,1095,4,1690,62,2548,2547,1956,1555,4274,68,3348,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-672338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-anthony-volpe","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-carlos-rodon","12":"tag-chandler-simpson","13":"tag-clarke-schmidt","14":"tag-edwin-uceta","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","17":"tag-luis-gil","18":"tag-major-league-baseball","19":"tag-manuel-rodriguez","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-new-york","22":"tag-new-york-yankees","23":"tag-newyork","24":"tag-newyorkyankees","25":"tag-ryan-pepiot","26":"tag-steven-matz","27":"tag-steven-wilson","28":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","29":"tag-yandy-diaz","30":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116379634230622288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}