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Tampa Bay Rays
Tue, Sep 22
1:35 PM ET
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NYY
New York Yankees
Our analysts — Vega & Scoop — weigh in about 3 hours before first pitch.

Starting Pitchers

TB starter Locked
2.45 ERA · 9.2 K/9
NYY starter Locked
3.95 ERA · 9.9 K/9

By the conditions

history for tonight's matchup

What's happened when these teams played in these exact conditions — vs the league average (the tick).

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Head to Head 2026 season

4
TB
5 games
6.8 avg runs
1
NYY

Team Data (season)

TBNYY
48-33Record48-35
4.52Runs / g4.93
4.22Runs allowed / g3.71
51%Scored first60%
46%Cover -1.547%
70%Cover +1.573%

Form & Market Trends

TB Tampa Bay Rays n 10/81/162
Winner & spread
L10 Szn Prev
Win 70% 59% 48%
Cover -1.5 60% 46% 34%
Cover +1.5 90% 70% 65%
Lead after 5 (F5 spread) 60% 47% 44%
Totals
L10 Szn Prev
Over 8.5 (game) 20% 40% 48%
Team over 4.5 60% 48% 38%
Team F5 over 2.5 60% 43% 46%
Run in 1st (RFI) 60% 51% 54%
Extra innings 0% 11% 7%
Race to N runs (first to score)
L10 Szn Prev
Race to 3 60% 57% 51%
Race to 4 70% 52% 42%
Race to 5 50% 43% 32%
Race to 6 20% 28% 27%
Race to 7 10% 20% 22%
NYY New York Yankees n 10/83/169
Winner & spread
L10 Szn Prev
Win 30% 58% 57%
Cover -1.5 20% 47% 43%
Cover +1.5 40% 73% 70%
Lead after 5 (F5 spread) 10% 43% 56%
Totals
L10 Szn Prev
Over 8.5 (game) 30% 45% 51%
Team over 4.5 10% 43% 50%
Team F5 over 2.5 10% 39% 49%
Run in 1st (RFI) 50% 53% 56%
Extra innings 10% 6% 8%
Race to N runs (first to score)
L10 Szn Prev
Race to 3 40% 54% 56%
Race to 4 40% 52% 50%
Race to 5 10% 39% 41%
Race to 6 0% 33% 33%
Race to 7 0% 29% 28%

Cover -1.5 = won by 2+; Cover +1.5 = lost by ≤1 or won. F5 = first five innings. RFI = a run scored in the 1st. Race to N = team first to N runs. Descriptive; low-n splits are noisy.

Projected Lineups

Tap a batter for tonight's matchup splits — vs the opposing starter's hand, in the game's temperature, and at this park (vs their overall).

TB Tampa Bay Rays Probable

1 Yandy Díaz R 0.824
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs LHP 0.321 0.903 18 106g
at Yankee Stadium 0.239 0.575 0 12g
Overall 0.300 0.824 51 373g
2 Jonathan Aranda L 0.842
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs LHP 0.295 0.775 4 52g
at Yankee Stadium 0.367 1.058 2 8g
Overall 0.292 0.842 33 230g
3 Junior Caminero R 0.853
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs LHP 0.266 0.818 17 77g
at Yankee Stadium 0.133 0.445 1 8g
Overall 0.270 0.853 73 278g
4 Victor Mesa Jr. L 0.654
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs LHP 0.273 0.792 0 10g
at Yankee Stadium no games
Overall 0.194 0.654 4 39g
5 Chandler Simpson L 0.651
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs LHP 0.211 0.486 0 53g
at Yankee Stadium 0.167 0.333 0 9g
Overall 0.282 0.651 0 187g
6 Cedric Mullins L 0.682
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs LHP 0.243 0.712 7 87g
at Yankee Stadium 0.289 0.772 1 10g
Overall 0.223 0.682 44 353g
7 Ben Williamson R 0.613
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs LHP 0.230 0.561 0 47g
at Yankee Stadium 0.286 0.714 0 3g
Overall 0.246 0.613 3 144g
8 Taylor Walls S 0.584
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs LHP 0.234 0.630 1 69g
at Yankee Stadium 0.278 0.783 0 11g
Overall 0.209 0.584 5 249g
9 Nick Fortes R 0.595
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs LHP 0.241 0.585 1 100g
at Yankee Stadium 0.111 0.367 0 7g
Overall 0.234 0.595 10 269g

NYY New York Yankees Probable

1 Ben Rice L 0.821
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs RHP 0.259 0.870 48 201g
at Yankee Stadium 0.235 0.840 32 133g
Overall 0.246 0.821 56 272g
2 Cody Bellinger L 0.789
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs RHP 0.250 0.769 47 275g
at Yankee Stadium 0.318 0.966 26 121g
Overall 0.266 0.789 59 371g
3 Paul Goldschmidt R 0.749
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs RHP 0.251 0.707 27 256g
at Yankee Stadium 0.241 0.691 10 110g
Overall 0.264 0.749 46 364g
4 Jazz Chisholm Jr. L 0.752
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs RHP 0.240 0.760 53 272g
at Yankee Stadium 0.250 0.797 30 145g
Overall 0.241 0.752 70 378g
5 Jasson Domínguez S 0.700
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs RHP 0.264 0.762 14 131g
at Yankee Stadium 0.247 0.698 4 81g
Overall 0.243 0.700 15 168g
6 Anthony Volpe R 0.666
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs RHP 0.220 0.634 27 271g
at Yankee Stadium 0.223 0.654 20 183g
Overall 0.232 0.666 34 369g
7 Spencer Jones L 0.649
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs RHP 0.231 0.710 2 19g
at Yankee Stadium 0.273 0.885 1 10g
Overall 0.215 0.649 2 27g
8 Austin Wells L 0.659
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs RHP 0.211 0.680 36 238g
at Yankee Stadium 0.206 0.661 17 156g
Overall 0.207 0.659 40 317g
9 José Caballero R 0.658
SplitAVGOPSHRn
vs RHP 0.232 0.632 11 236g
at Yankee Stadium 0.254 0.717 5 65g
Overall 0.236 0.658 22 339g

Injured List

TB (9 on IL)
NYY (6 on IL)