{"id":819382,"date":"2026-10-02T02:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/819382\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T02:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:27:17","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-to-host-new-york-yankees-in-al-division-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/819382\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays to host New York Yankees in AL Division Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tampa Bay Rays to host New York Yankees in AL Division Series<\/p>\n

\"Kristen<\/a>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

The Tampa Bay Rays\u2019 road through the postseason will continue against a familiar division rival.<\/p>\n

The top-seeded Rays will welcome the New York Yankees to Tropicana Field on Saturday for Game 1 of the American League Division Series, renewing a matchup that carried plenty of intensity throughout the regular season.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay enters the series well-rested and focused on its goal of reaching the World Series for the third time in franchise history. The Rays held a slight edge over the Yankees during the regular season, winning seven of their 13 head-to-head meetings.<\/p>\n

But come Saturday, the slate is wiped clean.<\/p>\n

The Rays will send 16-game winner Drew Rasmussen to the mound for Game 1, but New York has not yet announced its starting pitcher.<\/p>\n

Another question surrounding the Yankees is the status of slugger Aaron Judge, who was not on New York\u2019s roster for its Wild Card Series against the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n

Rays-Yankees already brings plenty of intensity to the baseball diamond on its own. Add October baseball and a trip to the ALCS on the line, and Tropicana Field should be rocking when the series gets underway Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays to host New York Yankees in AL Division Series TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[51994,2458,5,6469,14,4,5733,62,3543,99712,297,4135,99713,2550,68,2551,2549,19557,240,8757],"class_list":["post-819382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-al-division-series","tag-american-league-division-series","tag-baseball","tag-franchise-history","tag-game","tag-mlb","tag-mound","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-rasmussen","tag-ray-fan","tag-rays","tag-road","tag-slugger-aaron-judge","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-third-time","tag-wesh","tag-winner"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117368956397084921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819382","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=819382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}