{"id":367821,"date":"2026-10-08T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367821\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:00:14","slug":"yankees-2026-alds-sweep-by-rays-was-reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367821\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; 2026 ALDS sweep by Rays was reality check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was 9-6 in favor of the Rays during the regular season, and two of the Yankees\u2019 victories came after Tampa Bay had clinched the AL East title.<\/p>\n<p>It was a 4.5-game margin through 162 games in favor of the Rays.<\/p>\n<p>And it was a 3-0 sweep in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays were the better team from the end of March through the end of September, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/07\/sports\/yankees-prove-once-again-theyre-good-but-not-championship-great\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">history repeated itself<\/a> in the ALDS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was 9-6 in favor of the Rays during the regular season, and two of the Yankees\u2019 victories&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22381,20,9,11,10,321,4780,319,428,25678],"class_list":["post-367821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-beyond-the-back-page","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}