{"id":416483,"date":"2026-10-02T06:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T06:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416483\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T06:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T06:42:28","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-to-host-new-york-yankees-in-al-division-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416483\/","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":416484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[164967,117998,106898,916,152556,3821,164968,164969,23181,724,164970,135,3815,137,136,111519,918,9416],"class_list":["post-416483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-al-division-series","tag-american-league-division-series","tag-franchise-history","tag-game","tag-mound","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-rasmussen","tag-ray-fan","tag-rays","tag-road","tag-slugger-aaron-judge","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-third-time","tag-wesh","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416483","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=416483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}