Asking the Rays and Yankees to play their AL Division 5 franchise tonight that saves the eerily fading post-season seems difficult, given that the first four games from Rays-Yankees ALDS embody everything that is wrong with a seemingly lackluster post-season period. Scary .

Rays and Yankees rounded up 18 homers that spawned 31 out of 42 in the series. Roughly 74 percent of runs are produced via Homer, which is well above the league-wide average of 52 percent.

Additionally, the Rays-Yankees average of 4.5 home hurdles far exceeds the league’s average of 2.81 other players per game. That last number would be the third highest post-season mark in the wild card era after only 2017 (3.18 hommers per game) and 2004 (2.94 hommers per game). The Barrage of Negroes is a reminder that every Homer deserved “oh” and “oh”, and that the running of the house has been reduced to the point that it becomes background noise.

The most memorable moment in the series so far is the biggest mistake. After winning the first game, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman and his cadre of front office analysts decided to go cute and use up-and-coming right-handed Davey Garcia as a opener and spread JA Happ as a huge man in hopes of hampering the left-handed Rays lineup. With the exception of Hubb, who was already dissatisfied with how the Yankees used him during the regular season, he abandoned his teammates from two runs to right-hand hitters Mike Zuneno and Manuel Margot in Rise’s 7-5 win.

The Yankees trying to get Rays the Rays out – the inventors of the opening concept – weren’t even the most outrageous thing from over-management and overemphasizing the bullpen in the posteason.

Before 2020, there were only four playoff matches between the two teams with at least eight shooters. All of them went well in additional roles and at least three of them were in moments in Baseball: Game 3 of the 2005 World Series (rubber star Mark Bohrl saves while White Sox defeated Astros in 14 rounds to move within one win of their first title since 1917. ), Game 2 of Giants-Nationals 2014 NLDS (18 rounds!) And Game 3 of the 2018 World Series (18 rounds and ended at 3:30 EST!). The other game was Game 4 from Yankees-Orioles 2012 ALDS, which meets the demand that every long-running baseball list includes at least one Yankees.

However, on October 1 – the third day of the season – it happened twice without the Athletics-White Sox or the Padres-Cardinals going on extra rounds. The match was not particularly convincing or well-pitched. Athletics, White Sox and Padres had two runs 1-2-3 each while the Cardinal had no run.

Padres ended up using at least eight shooters in their first four playoffs and five of six overall. Prior to this year, only two other teams in history had used at least eight shooters in a post-season match five times. Last night, when they were eliminated from the NLDS by the Dodgers, Padres used 11 throws, more than any other team has used him before in a playoff match.

The Rays and Yankees manage to thwart hope when it comes to spawning a little bit of subtle drama. There is no shortage of disdain between the two teams, but there was no intense staring or exchanging words that you couldn’t say on TV. For those elements, we had to rely on the Dodgers and Padres after Cody Bellinger stole Fernando Tates Jr. from the green light in the seventh game on Wednesday evening.

So yeah. The Rays and Yankees’ claim to a post-season bailout is a little desperate. But what choice do we have as they prepare to play the last game of this week, in the only Division Series 5 game and at the end of the round in which Astros appeared as the closest thing to Cinderella in a brutal March Madness-esque? That’s like Duke who made the NCAA Championship number 16-14 and scored the Final Four.

Fortunately, the items are ready for an unforgettable, much-needed evening. After a week and a half of downsizing the starting shooter, there will be an old duel of aces that take the pile into a short rest. Gerrit Cole, who paid the Yankees $ 324 million for nights like that, would bid for a three-day rest after winning the first match. Tyler Glasno, who won Game 2 for the Rays, will be running a two-day break.

The first rounds of most playoff games these days spend pessimistically questioning when the initiator will be drawn. But this night the wonder will be tinged with nervous anticipation. How far can Cole and Glasno go?

It gets cumbersome when you watch the managers – or the guys in the front office running the chains for the dolls – run each game as if it were a matter of winning or going home. But tonight, it will be fun to watch once Aaron Boon and Kevin Cash go to their bulldogs and see how many shooters are available and which outfits they are used in.

The most convincing moment of the post-season occurred on Wednesday, when Athletics team Liam Hendriks used the closest in the last three rounds as they avoided elimination with a 7-5 win over Astros in Game 3 of ALDS. How long is the Yankees close to Aroldis Chapman and Rays firefighter Nick Anderson, his team’s best but often posting pre-ninth inning, available tonight? Will one be on the hill as late as Wednesday night nine in Texas, when Padres scored twice and forced Kenley Janssen and Joe Kelly to throw 49 shots before leaving the loaded bases with a 6-5 loss?

Only five of the 14 games were decided by three rounds or fewer. Does that make it six? Maybe there will even be a hard slide or bat flipping causing profanity along the way.

Give us a close match, give us some mutual disdain, and give us ballpine chess matches of interest, which can either prolong or end the season. We beg you, Rice and Yankees. A nation of sleepy baseball fans is dependent on you tonight.