New York Yankees (75-64) at Tampa Bay Rays (84-53) MLB Prediction: Tonight, starting at 7:10 PM ET from the Trop in St. Petersburg, FL, the New York Yankees will try to sweep the Tampa Bay Rays in their season series finale. The Yankees are starting to heat up, but is it a case of too little too late? New York starts tonight’s game 10 behind the Rays in the AL East, and 7 games behind Boston (5 behind second place Twins) in the American League Wild Card.

BetUS.com has the desperate, New York Yankees as +163 betting odds underdogs against the Tampa Bay Rays (-173) in the series finale.

In the first two games of this series, the Bronx Bombers have played how everyone expected them to, at the beginning of the season.

New York has won the first two games of this series with great pitching and great situational hitting. In two games they have allowed just 6 runs, and have scored 15 themselves.

Last night, Yankees 3B Alex Rodriguez placed his name in yet another category in the history books. A-Rod became the first to make use of the recently installed instant replay, in last night’s game in the top of the 9th inning.

The OVER/UNDER in this New York Yankees at Tampa Bay Rays MLB Prediction has been set at a total of 9 runs. Tonight, Darrell Rasner (5-9, 5.08) will try to hold off the Rays' Scott Kazmir (10-6, 3.13) as he hopes to get his team a much-needed W.

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