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Columns At Yankees: Sunday Fun Day May Clarify Potential Opponents 

The Rays will need to put a reasonable (and sound) finish on their record-breaking season, grant a couple of their players openings at individual achievements and pass on some force into Thursday's season finisher opener as they face the Yankees today in Game 162. 메이저사이트

How they do will expect an epic part in how tangled a cycle it will be to pick the two social events that will meet in Tuesday's secret weapon game for the decision to open the division series Thursday at Tropicana Field. 

That is a prompt eventual outcome of the conceivable unsettling influence of having four social affairs going into the last day with an opportunity to appear. The Yankees and Red Sox, who play at the Nationals, are 91-70; the Blue Jays, who have the Orioles, and Mariners, who have the Angels, are 90-71. 

The most un-requesting result: If the Yankees and Red Sox both win, they will be the secret weapons and play Tuesday in Boston. The most over the top savage: If the Yankees and Red Sox lose and Jays and Mariners win, there will be a four-way tie that would require two Games 163 on Monday. 

A three-way tie would be broadly more tangled, requiring two days to figure out and push the secret weapon game back to Wednesday, which would be to the Rays' benefit as whoever endures would have utilized their top pitchers. 

Going into the current game, Rays second baseman Brandon Lowe has 39 homers and 99 RBIs and is hoping to appear at the going with round numbers. Outfielder Randy Arozarena is looking for his twentieth taken base to appear at the 20-20 club and would be the third Ray to do in light of everything, joining Tommy Pham and B.J., Upton. 

Here is the Rays approach: 

Moreover, for the Yankees, who on Sunday put infielder D.J. LeMahieu on the hurt once-over with a games hernia: