Classic weekend in Major Leagues
Yankees vs. Red Sox and Dodgers vs. Parents face the weekend with great at stake.
Two of the most attractive rivalries of the major leagues of American baseball (MLB) They cool on the weekend, with the aggregate that in dispute they are squares for the postseason of October.
Los Angeles Dodgers (73-55) visit the San Diego Padres (72-56) in Petco Park for the last series between the two of the regular season, separated only by a game at the top of the West division of the National League.
The New York Yankees (69-58) receive in the last three games, from a series of four that began on Thursday, their eternal enemies Boston Red Sox (69-59), in a battle for the first wildcard and the preeminence of playing at home in the first round of the postseason of the American League.
The Dodgers swept the parents last weekend to take advantage 8-2 in the private series, which ensures the advantage of the blue in the first tiebreaker criteria to end up matched with the brown.
This means that while the angels just tie to win the division for the fourth consecutive season and for twelfth time in 13 years, San Diego is obliged to win more games than the current champions of the major leagues to catch his first flag since 2006.
While San Diego won three of four clashes at home to the San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles divided his series of four clashes against the Colorado Rockies in Denver, which reduced in half the advantage of two games that the Dodgers took out last weekend.
The opening launchers for the super series in San Diego will be Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, for the Dodgers, and Yu Darvish, Néstor Cortés and Nick Pivetta, for the parents.
Los Angeles, who have barely played above .500 (32-31) on the road, plans to add reinforcements to their bullpen bullpen (#21 of MLB with EFE of 4.20) during the stay in San Diego.
He Manager Dave Roberts He said that Tanner Scott, who has an effectiveness of 4.14 in the first year of his $ 72 million contract, will be enabled since Friday, and Kirby Yates (4.31 in his debut in Los Angeles) on Saturday.
San Diego (41-21, the third best MLB brand at home) exhibits a great advantage over the rest of baseball in the final part of the games. The relief of the parents, headed by Mason Miller, the Venezuelan Robert Suárez and the Cuban Adrián Morejón, lead the season effectively 2.89 and on 28 occasions they have achieved at least four blank innings in a game.
The Red Sox beat the Yankees on Thursday with a home run of Roman Anthony and 4.1 innings blank of the Bullpen. With the victory, Boston stuck half a New York game in the second place of the East division of the young circuit, but more important, of the first wild card.
In the postseason, the team with the first wild card receives at home the second for a light lightning series in three games, while the third Wild Card travels to the house of the worst division winner.
Hence the importance of what Boston and New York fight, beyond that they also try to stay close to divisional leaders, the Toronto Blue Jays (74-54).
On Friday, Dominican Brayan Bello will face left -handed Max Fried, who is the leader of the Yankees rotation; On Saturday Boston’s horse, left -handed Sunday, at 7 pm per AM850Dustin May will measure Carlos Rodón.
East beasts will have a last regular season series on the weekend from September 12 to 14 at Fenway Park. The Red Sox dominate the private series 5-1 and with two more wins they would obtain the advantage to decide a potential tie with the Yankees in a postseason classification stand.
