Overview
- Tampa Bay beat the Yankees 5-2 on Monday night to go up 2-0 in the American League Division Series.
- New York committed three errors in the first inning and four overall, with miscues producing an early unearned run and directly contributing to Tampa Bay’s rally in the fifth.
- Tampa Bay’s pitching carried the series, with Drew Rasmussen taking a no-hit bid into the eighth in Game 1 and Freddy Peralta working 4 2/3 innings in Game 2 before the bullpen preserved the lead.
- The Yankees have scored only two runs in two games while three-time MVP Aaron Judge remains sidelined, and Ben Rice provided both of New York’s runs with two solo homers.
- The series moves to Yankee Stadium for Game 3, where New York is slated to start Max Fried and must begin a comeback to avoid the historically steep task of overcoming a 0-2 hole in a best-of-five series.