{"id":332808,"date":"2026-07-08T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332808\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:55:08","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-play-the-new-york-yankees-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/332808\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays play the New York Yankees Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Yankees<\/a> (50-41, second in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (53-36, first in the AL East)<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, Florida; Wednesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Yankees: Gerrit Cole<\/a> (3-3, 4.01 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 41 strikeouts); Rays: Shane McClanahan<\/a> (7-5, 3.05 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 77 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -131, Yankees +107; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays take on the New York Yankees on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay is 53-36 overall and 32-13 at home. The Rays have the fifth-ranked team ERA in the AL at 3.77.<\/p>\n

New York has a 50-41 record overall and a 27-21 record on the road. The Yankees have hit 132 total home runs to lead the majors.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the eighth time these teams meet this season. The Rays hold a 5-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Junior Caminero<\/a> leads the Rays with 26 home runs while slugging .547. Cedric Mullins<\/a> is 8 for 35 with four home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ben Rice<\/a> leads the Yankees with a .273 batting average, and has 15 doubles, two triples, 26 home runs, 44 walks and 60 RBIs. Amed Rosario<\/a> is 6 for 27 with two home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 7-3, .252 batting average, 3.17 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runs<\/p>\n

Yankees: 2-8, .164 batting average, 4.00 ERA, outscored by 25 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rays: Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jesse Scholtens<\/a>: 15-Day IL (wrist), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Steven Matz<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ankle), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jake Fraley<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Yankees: Carlos Rodon: 15-Day IL (elbow), Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg), Max Fried<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Aaron Judge: 10-Day IL (rib), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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 (50-41, second in the AL East) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (53-36, first in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[102264,85685,48422,137327,64907,70652,102265,85679,32783,108685,84499,9004,73022,99577,3821,84505,74505,73020,113575,135,3815,137,136],"class_list":["post-332808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-amed-rosario","tag-ben-rice","tag-cedric-mullins","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-jake-fraley","tag-jesse-scholtens","tag-junior-caminero","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-max-fried","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-steven-matz","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}