… New York’s fielding percentage was its worst since 1973. Ø Toronto finished 2020 above .500 (32-28) for the first time since 2016, but the Blue Jays managed just three total runs in a two-game playoff series loss to the Rays. Ø The Blue Jays and Yankees split their 2020 season series, 5-5, and they combined for 13.8 runs per game, the highest between any two AL East teams in a season series all-time. … Tampa Bay is in the postseason in consecutive years for the second time. Copyright © 2021 The Associated Press. The Rays dominated the regular-season series with the Yankees 8-2 and were the AL's top-seed. Before a game against the rival Tampa Bay Rays, Zack Britton, a key reliever, became the 10th Yankee to spend time on the injured list this season. Three-batter minimum for pitchers - a pitcher must face three batters in a game before they can be removed unless there is an injury or the end of an inning. Brosseau scored revenge against Chapman on Friday night, connecting for a deciding homer that ended the Yankees’ season with a 2-1 loss in Game 5 of the AL Division Series. The 2020 American League Wild Card Series were four best-of-three series in Major League Baseball to determine participating teams in the 2020 American League Division Series. Season series:Rays won season series 8-2. In this Sept. 1, 2020, file photo, Tampa Bay Rays pinch-hitter Michael Brosseau, left, is restrained by a coach as umpire Chad Fairchild warns New … Yankees pitchers had a 4.84 ERA vs. the Rays, allowing 47 runs and 16 homers. Yankees' 2020 MLB playoffs number to know: The Yankees are the fourth team to score at least 20 runs through its first two games of a postseason. All rights reserved. Cole tosses 8 Ks vs. Blue Jays Gerrit Cole sits eight Blue Jays in five innings of work in the Yankees' win. Rays 7, Yankees 5 | Series tied, 1-1. Single trade deadline – there would no longer be a waiver trade deadline later in the year. Tampa Bay dominated the contentious regular-season series, going 8-2 against the rival Yankees and winning the AL East by seven games over second-place New York. NLCS MVP: Corey Seager. Manager: Kevin Cash (40-20) General Manager: Erik Neander (Senior VP, Baseball Ops & GM) Farm Director: Jeff McLerran WS MVP: Corey Seager. SAN DIEGO — Aaron Boone, ... as the Yankees hope to get 27 outs from their best pitchers with the season on the line. … Played much better in the Bronx, going 22-9 at home and 11-18 on the road. Gio Urshela walked off after making the final out of the Yankees’ season in a Game 5 loss to the Rays on Friday. TRAINER'S ROOM. More league info New York hit .218 with 13 homers against Tampa Bay, averaging 3.4 runs per game. All rights reserved. Rays Jump on Yankees’ Pitching Trickery to Even Series. Aaron Boone reveals the Yankees have added 1B Jay Bruce to the roster during Luke Voit's absence due to a partial meniscus tear. This Tampa Bay players wear T-shirts with four horses lined up behind a fence, a reference to Cash declaring “I’ve got a whole damn stable full of guys that throw 98 miles an hour” in response to Chapman throwing a 101 mph pitch near Mike Brosseau’s head on Sept. 1. Both managers were suspended for one game apiece. Fairbanks became the 13th in the playoffs, picking up a save in Game 1 against the Blue Jays. 26-man roster – rosters expanded from 25 players, but no team may carry more than 13 pitchers. Yankees 5, Rays 1 | Series tied, 2-2. Yankees: C Kyle Higashioka was put on the 10-day IL with a right oblique strain and will have an MRI Monday. Projected Rotation: LHP Blake Snell (4-2, 3.24 ERA, 63 Ks in 50 IP), RHP Tyler Glasnow (5-1, 4.08, 91 Ks in 57 1/3 IP), RHP Charlie Morton (2-2, 4.74, 42 Ks in 38 IP). ... in the Yankees' biggest game of the season. Stats for the 2020 Rays vs. Yankees season series. Glasnow, who struck out 91 over 57 1/3 innings during the regular season, punched out eight or more in eight of his 11 starts. The Rays improved to 20-4 in their last 24 games and moved 4 1/2 games ahead of the Yankees. Finally. New York hit .218 with 13 homers against Tampa Bay, averaging 3.4 runs per game. The wild 10-9 win in Game 2 was the longest nine-inning game in major league history at 4 hours, 50 minutes. About an hour after the game ended, a number of Rays came back out to the field and dugout with beverages and cigars and are trolled the Yankees by playing Frank Sinatra's version of "New York, New York," played at Yankee Stadium after victories, and Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" featuring Alicia Keys. A capsule look at the best-of-five playoff series between the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays in San Diego…. … Favored to win the AL East, the Yankees alternated hot and cold spurts: a 16-6 start following by a 5-15 slide, a 10-game winning streak and six losses in their last eight games. The 2020 Tampa Bay Rays season was the 23rd season of the Tampa Bay Rays franchise. The team had 12 pitchers earn at least one save, matching the major league record set by the 1973 Rangers. 2020 AL Division Series Tampa Bay Rays over New York Yankees (3-2) Dates: October 5 - 9, 2020. Since then, the Rays are 53-33 when Brosseau makes an appearance on the field. … Giancarlo Stanton hit .200 with one homer, four RBIs and 16 strikeouts in 35 at-bats after returning Sept. 15 from more than a month on the injured list with a strained left hamstring, then homered in each game vs. the Indians. 2020 New York Yankees Statistics 2019 Season 2021 Season Record: 33-27, 2nd place in AL_East ( Schedule and Results ) … Counting their two-game sweep of the wild-card Blue Jays in the first round of the playoffs, the Rays enter the ALDS on an eight-game winning streak. Boone announces Voit will start season on IL with meniscus tear. Happ (2-2, 3.47, 42 Ks), RHP Deivi García (3-2, 4.98, 33 Ks in 34 1/3 IP as rookie). Log in to your WTOP account for notifications and alerts customized for you. … The win over Toronto ended a streak of five consecutive losses in multi-game postseason series dating to the 2008 World Series. UP NEXT. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed. But their lack of success against the Rays in 2020, a team that beat the Yankees in eight out of their 10 regular-season matchups, kept them from enjoying the … , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The pinstripes won the series 2–1 to claim a half-game lead over Tampa Bay. The big-budget Yankees lost the season series to the thrifty Rays for the first time since 2014. With AL East up for grabs, the Rays went to the Bronx to play a three-game series against the Yankees. … The big-budget Yankees lost the season series to the thrifty Rays for the first time since 2014. Series Summary: The Rays are AL East champions for first time since 2010, third time overall. … The Rays thrived this season despite injuries that forced Cash to juggle his rotation and tinker with bullpen roles. ___ NEW YORK YANKEES Record: 33-27. The Yankees' Gio Urshela after making the final out in Game 5 of the ALDS against the Rays on October 9, 2020, ... 5 of the AL Division Series. … Injured OF Austin Meadows (left oblique strain), a first-time All-Star in 2019, missed the wild-card round but might be nearing a return. mental health facilities would have to report sexual abuse under new bill, IRS more than doubled teleworking employees in 2020, IG data shows, Federal health insurance programs are now 'essential' during future shutdowns, OPM says, DoD entering a 'paradigm shift' in how it addresses, tracks brain injuries, USDA, Energy taking a page out of DoD’s IT, cyber playbooks. Only the Dodgers (10), Yankees (8), Red Sox (8) and Cardinals (7) have made more Division Series appearances during that span. First there was the three-game set at Citi Field that was postponed when the Mets were exposed to COVID-19. Los Angeles Dodgers, who won 43 games during the regular season. Check out the five longest home runs of Royals catcher Salvador Perez's 2020 season. Top Hitters: 2B Brandon Lowe (.269, 14 HRs, 37 RBIs, 36 runs, .916 OPS), SS Willy Adames (.259, 8, 23, .813 OPS). ALCS MVP: Randy Arozarena. "Opening Day delayed at least 2 weeks; Spring Training games cancelled", "Opening of regular season to be pushed back", "Play Ball: MLB announces 2020 regular season", "MLB Rules, Format Changes for 60-Game 2020 Season Due to COVID-19", "MLB reduces doubleheaders to 7 innings for '20", "Report: Single-trade deadline, 26-man roster, 3-batter minimum among changes in next 2 years", "Rays Announce Modified 2020 Regular-Season Schedule", "MLB will allow fans to attend 2020 World Series, NLCS at Texas Rangers' Globe Life Field", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2020_Tampa_Bay_Rays_season&oldid=991200152, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Yankees won the series 2–0 (8–4 runs) May 17–19, vs. Tampa Bay Rays. Cole and Higashioka have known each other since playing on a scout team together as teenagers in Southern California. Voit launched a 453-foot blast for his first postseason homer and Gleyber Torres added a two-run shot as the Yankees came out swinging, celebrating a 5-1 victory over the Rays in Game 4 of the American League Division Series. Lost World Series (4-2) to Los Angeles Dodgers Won AL Championship Series (4-3) over Houston Astros Won AL Division Series (3-2) over New York Yankees Won AL Wild Card Series (2-0) over Toronto Blue Jays. The Yankees played in Yankee Stadium in the city's northern borough of The Bronx and were led by Aaron Boone in his third season as team manager. Off the field, Brosseau is one of the most energetic players on the team. Copyright © 2021 by WTOP. That earned the closer a three-game suspension that remains under appeal. Last season, Brosseau hit .304 with 16 home runs at Triple-A Durham before the Rays called him up to the big league roster on June 23, 2019, against Oakland. Top Relievers: LHP Aroldis Chapman (1-1, 3.09 ERA, 3 saves), LHP Zack Britton (1-2, 1.89, 8 saves). … Tampa Bay is 56-41 at home against the Yankees since 2010, winning its home season series nine times with one split. It also matched the best 60-game stretch the club has had at any point in a season. That September night in the Bronx, Chapman buzzed a 101 mph fastball over Brosseau, prompting the Rays to warn about their “stable” of elite relievers. … It is Tampa Bay’s sixth trip to the ALDS since 2008. With the calendar flipped to October, it was a different story in their first postseason meeting. Following that series, the Yankees had six days off due to positive coronavirus tests out of the New York Mets. ... but not during the 2020 regular season. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MLB expanded the postseason instead of holding the regular Wild Card Game for each league. All games for each series were played at the higher seeded team's home ballpark. The big-budget Yankees lost the season series to the thrifty Rays for the first time since 2014. Tampa Bay has won four straight and 10 of 11 to move within a half-game of the AL East-leading Yankees. A capsule look at the best-of-five playoff series between the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays in San Diego beginning Monday: Projected Rotation: RHP Gerrit Cole (7-3, 2.84 ERA, 94 Ks), RHP Masahiro Tanaka (3-3, 3.56, 44 Ks), LHP J.A. The Tampa Bay Rays versus the New York Yankees is a matchup in the American League Division Series is one that looked likely before the season … … Aaron Judge also slumped after returning Sept. 16 from a strained right calf, with no homers and two RBIs, then was 1 for 9 with an early home run against Cleveland. RHP Chad Green (3-3, 3.51, 1 save, 32 K in 25 2/3 IP). … A resilient team, the Rays led the AL with 20 comeback wins. They won nine of their final 11 regular-season games, finishing 20 games over .500 and completing the best 60-game start to a season in franchise history. I’m reviewing these stats, and it seems you may have valid logic. Yankees won the series 2–1 (18–10 runs) May 20–23, at Baltimore Orioles New York hit .218 with 13 homers against Tampa Bay, averaging 3.4 runs per game. The Rays played their home games at Tropicana Field as members of Major League Baseball's American League East Division. As aforementioned, the Yankees were banged up heading into a three-game series with the Rays, who they had already dropped two out of three against earlier in the season. The Rays beat Oakland in the 2019 AL wild-card game before losing to Houston in the Division Series. The 2020 New York Yankees season was the 118th season in New York City for the Yankees, and the 120th season overall for the franchise. Credit... Christian Petersen/Getty Images Yankees pitchers had a 4.84 ERA vs. the Rays, allowing 47 runs and 16 homers. Tampa Bay also avoided consecutive losses for the first time since a five-game skid from July 29 to Aug. 2. More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/tag/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports. Top Relievers: RHP Nick Anderson (2-1, 0.55 ERA, 6 saves), RHP Pete Fairbanks (6-3, 2.70), RHP Diego Castillo (3-0, 1.66, 4 saves). This time around, though, the Rays swept the Yankees. This page was last edited on 28 November 2020, at 20:33. 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