Blue Jays vs Rays Live Stream: The Tampa Bay Rays earned the top seed and “home-field advantage” through the League Championship Series by virtue of going 40-20 during the regular season. They earned a 1-0 series lead in the best-of-three wild card round with a win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday. Tampa will try to advance to the ALDS on Wednesday.
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Anything can happen over the course of two or three games, so there is danger in feeling too confident about a prediction. Still, the Rays can take some comfort in knowing they defeated the Blue Jays during the season series by a 6-4 margin. Toronto actually outscored Tampa Bay, 48-44, over those 10 games. Four of those contests were decided by a single run, suggesting this could be a tightly played series, even if Tampa Bay enters as the obvious favorite to advance.That will change when Kwang Hyun Kim makes the Cardinals’ first start of this wild-card series Wednesday at Petco Park.
The Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds will begin their best-of-three Wild Card Series on Wednesday afternoon in Atlanta. The Braves are the No. 2 seed in the National League, while the Reds earned the No. 7 seed. The Braves moved into first place on Aug. 17 and cruised to their third consecutive NL East title. The Reds had a more difficult path to the postseason. They had to win 11 of their final 14 games to storm to October.
The Marlins are baseball’s biggest surprise of 2020. In their first winning season since 2009, the Marlins played well enough to earn the sixth seed in the National League playoffs. They finished the season 5-5, including winning two of their last three against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.Sandy Alcantara will make the first postseason start of his career on Wednesday afternoon. Alcantara’s season numbers were solid (3.72 FIP, 8.4 K/9), but he punctuated his season with three strong starts in which he pitched a combined 19.1 innings and allowed just four earned runs while striking out 18 batters.
This matchup isn’t as difficult as it looks at first glance. The Cubs were just average against right-handed pitching this season, hitting to a .318 wOBA and .185 ISO overall. Their 25.9% strikeout rate was also among the worst in baseball against righties.They struggled specifically down the stretch and have been a much different offense than we’re used to seeing.The Chicago White Sox are making their first postseason appearance since 2008. Right-handed starter Lucas Giolito, who received the nod in Game 1 of their Wild Card Series against the Oakland Athletics, almost made it a very memorable playoff return.
Giolito delivered six perfect innings to begin the game, his first playoff appearance, and didn’t permit a baserunner until the bottom of the seventh inning. That’s when Tommy La Stella knocked a 2-2 pitch into center field. Prior to that at-bat, Giolito had recorded six strikeouts and required just 73 pitches to retire the first 18 Athletics hitters he faced.
According to ESPN Stats & Info, Giolito was the first pitcher to be perfect through six innings of a playoff game since New York Yankees right-hander Mike Mussina did it against the Boston Red Sox in Game 1 of the 2004 American League Championship Series. If Giolito had found a way to secure the perfect game, it would’ve been only the second in postseason history. The first, and only, belonged to New York Yankees righty Don Larsen, who shut down the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series.
With his first pitch, he will become the first pitcher to secure a save in his MLB debut and go on to start a postseason game later that same season.The 32-year-old paused a dominant career in the Korea Baseball Organization to pursue his MLB dream. He departed from his wife and children in South Korea, not knowing a global pandemic would keep them apart for months longer than they thought.
Bieber did not have a single 1-2-3 inning Tuesday and Cleveland was trailing before he even broke a sweat. New York fouled away a lot of pitches and took some quality breaking balls in the dirt, and when Bieber made a mistake, they did not miss. The Yankees had four extra-base hits against Bieber.On the other side, Gerrit Cole took the run support and ran with it, especially after escaping a minor third inning jam. Cleveland never seriously threatened the rest of the night.
Here are three takeaways from New York’s Game 1 winThe Los Angeles Dodgers will begin their quest for an elusive World Series title on Wednesday, hosting the Milwaukee Brewers to start a best-of-three Wild Card Series. The Dodgers earned the National League’s No. 1 seed by going 43-17 during the regular season. The Brewers backed into the postseason with a 29-31 record.World Series and two other National League Championship Series during that span. Yet the Dodgers haven’t won the World Series for themselves since 1988. The Dodgers were the best team in baseball during the regular season; they’d probably rather be known for once as the best team in baseball during the postseason.