Yankees vs. Twins: New York will face Minnesota for a 4-game home series
Update: Game Postponed
The New York Yankees vs the Minnesota Twins at 7:05 p.m. EDT on a Tuesday at Yankee Stadium will see a close contest between pitchers Gerrit Cole and Joe Ryan.
The Yankees lead the AL East with 81-54, while the Twins are second in AL Central with 68-65.
Yankees vs. Twins: Gerrit Cole competes with Joe Ryan
Joe Ryan of the Twins, who has a 10-7 record, a 3.88 earned run average, a 1.14 walk-to-hit ratio, and 121 strikeouts; Gerrit Cole of the Yankees who has a 10-7 record, a 3.28 earned run average, a 1.01 walk-to-hit ratio, and 204 strikeouts are the likely starting pitchers.
Minnesota enters the Yankees vs. Twins series in New York riding on a four-game winning streak.
Yankees vs. Twins: All eyes on Aaron Judge
When it comes to batting, Anthony Rizzo has 19 doubles, one triple, 30 home runs, and 71 runs batted in. The Yankees have a score of 225. In the last ten games, Aaron Judge has a batting average of 12-for-32 with two doubles and six home runs.
Judge hit his 54th home run against the Twins on Monday afternoon. It was his third home run in as many games. Judge also has the most walks, runs scored, RBI, total bases, slugging percentage, OPS+, OPS, as well as the FanGraphs & Baseball-Reference versions of WAR. The race for the most home runs isn’t very close.
On Monday Judge was up to bat in the sixth inning of a game that was tied at the time, right-handed pitcher Trevor Megill allowed Judge to hit his 54th home run of the season into the left-field second deck.
Yankees are favorites
Overall, New York has a record of 81-54, and they are 46-20 at home. When the Yankees have at least five runs scored on them, they have a record of 52-9 in those games.
On Tuesday, the two clubs will meet for the fifth time this season. The Yankees vs Twins series will start with a 3-1 advantage in favor of New York this season.
In their last ten games, the Yankees went 4-6, had a batting average of .167, an earned run average of 3.14, and were outscored by eight runs.
INJURIES: Giancarlo Stanton, Luis Gil, Andrew Benintendi, Anthony Rizzo, Aroldis Chapman, Harrison Bader, Nestor Cortes Jr., Scott Effross, Albert Abreu, Matt Carpenter, Luis Severino, Miguel Castro, Michael King, Chad Green, Stephen Ridings, Zack Britton.
Will the Yankees return to winning ways or continue their summer slump? Who will be the best player in the Yankees vs Twins series?
