{"id":819087,"date":"2026-10-01T18:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/819087\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:27:31","slug":"drew-rasmussen-starting-alds-game-1-saturday-drew-rasmussen-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/819087\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew Rasmussen starting ALDS Game 1 Saturday &#8211; Drew Rasmussen News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/players\/drew-rasmussen.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/150x150.webp\" alt=\"Drew Rasmussen\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #878787; font-size: 13px;\">\n                      by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/news\/correspondents\/chris-schommer.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Schommer<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/team-news.php?team=TB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rays Correspondent<\/a> | Thu, Oct 1st 2026, 1:31pm EDT                    <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px; clear: both;\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/players\/drew-rasmussen.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Rasmussen<\/a><a href=\"#\" class=\"fp-player-link fp-id-43665\" fp-player-name=\"Drew Rasmussen\"\/> will take the mound for the Tampa Bay Rays against the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the ALDS Saturday according to Marc Topkin. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tbtimes_rays\/status\/2105377539300458582?s=46&amp;t=wuzLD6VEc2PDl5FSbJw5YA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Marc Topkin on Twitter <\/a>)                    <\/p>\n<p>Fantasy Impact:<\/p>\n<p>Rasmussen will toe the rubber against a Yankees lineup that posted 18 runs in a two-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox in the AL Wild Card round, as the right-hander finished with a 2.67 ERA and 0.91 WHIP to go with a 9.1 K\/9 ratio and 16-5 record over 30 regular season starts for manager Kevin Cash.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Rays?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Rays<\/a> Cash said, as expected, they are planning to start RH Drew Rasmussen in Saturday\u2019s ALDS opener, but other decisions will come \u201cas the week unfolds.\u201d Extra day off between Games 1 and 2 is a factor.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TBTimes_Rays\/status\/2105377539300458582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #878787; position: relative;\">More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/players\/drew-rasmussen.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Rasmussen<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/news\/drew-rasmussen.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/players\/drew-rasmussen.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rankings<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/projections\/drew-rasmussen.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Projections<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/mlb\/stats\/drew-rasmussen.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stats<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=fantasypros.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"google-source-link\" onclick=\"if (typeof window.mp_keyactionclick === &#039;function&#039;) { window.mp_keyactionclick(&#039;google_preferred_source&#039;, &#039;news_item_footer&#039;); }\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasypros.com\/assets\/images\/google-icon-mono.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"17\" height=\"17\" class=\"google-source-link__icon\"\/>Add FantasyPros on Google<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Chris Schommer | Rays Correspondent | Thu, Oct 1st 2026, 1:31pm EDT Drew Rasmussen will take the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,4,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":["post-819087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117367069056922942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819087","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=819087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}