Tampa Bay Rays at New York Yankees odds, picks and predictions

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The Tampa Bay Rays (62-53) and New York Yankees (72-45) wrap up a 3-game AL East showdown Wednesday. First pitch from Yankee Stadium is at 7:05 p.m. ET.

Season series: New York leads 7-5. Tampa Bay has taken the first 2 games of this series.

The Rays have won 4 straight games and have allowed just 4 combined runs along the way. Tampa Bay owns a 2.66 ERA over its last 8 games.

The slumping Yanks are 11 games under-.500 (11-22) since July 9. New York is 2-11 with a .625 OPS since Aug. 2.

Rays at Yankees projected starters

RHP Corey Kluber vs. RHP Domingo German

Kluber (7-7, 4.40 ERA) has posted a 1.19 WHIP, 1.3 BB/9 and 7.9 K/9 through 116 2/3 IP across 22 starts.

Tagged for 7 runs in his last start Friday vs. the Baltimore Orioles.
Owns a 6.91 ERA and 1.50 WHIP over his last 5 games.
Current Yankee bats own an aggregate .792 OPS against him.

German (1-2, 4.18 ERA) has made 5 starts this season. He has a 1.44 WHIP, 3.0 BB/9 and 6.5 K/9 through 23 2/3 IP.

Owns a Boeing 7.04 ERA across his last 5 efforts against Tampa Bay
Has been solid against lefty bats the last 2 seasons (.729 OPS allowed in 2022). Wednesday’s Tampa lineup figures to lean heavily to that side.

Rays at Yankees odds and lines

Money line: Rays +115 (bet $100 to win $115) | Yankees -140 (bet $140 to win $100)
Run line (RL)/Against the spread (ATS): Rays +1.5 (-180) | Yankees -1.5 (+145)
Over/Under (O/U): 7.5 (O: -130 | U: +105)

Rays at Yankees picks and predictions

Prediction

Rays 4, Yankees 3

Money line

The lean here is on the visitors’ side of the pitching equation and on Yankee bats just being tied in knots at the moment.

BACK THE RAYS (+115).

Run line/Against the spread

PASS. The tag on taking the Rays with a cushion makes for too much risk.

Over/Under

The Under is 8-3 across the last 11 Tampa-New York meetings, and that’s the lean in this contest. New York’s offense has been floundering without OF Giancarlo Stanton (IL-Achilles). Wednesday’s Bronx forecast calls for cooler temperatures and a slight inward breeze.

BACK THE UNDER 7.5 (+105).

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