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Red Sox vs. Yankees, AL Wild Card Game live stream, TV channel, start time, watch online, 2021 odds MLB Playoffs

The Red Sox will meet the Yankees in the AL Wild Card Game on Tuesday night from Fenway Park, stream the MLB action live here.

The New York Yankees will face the Boston Red Sox in the American League Wild Card Game on Tuesday night from Fenway Park. The winner of this game will meet the Tampa Bay Rays in a best of five series in Tampa.

The Yankees will send out Gerrit Cole to the mound tonight and the Red Sox will counter with Nathan Eovaldi. If history tells us anything it’s that games between these two clubs will be long and will certainly be hectic.

This will be a great matchup, here is everything you need to know to catch the action tonight.

How to watch

New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox

  • When: Tuesday, October 5
  • Time: 8:08 p.m. ET
  • TV Channel: ESPN
  • Live Stream: fuboTV (try for free)
  • Starting Pitchers: Gerrit Cole vs. Nathan Eovaldi

AL Wild Card Odds and Betting Lines

AL Wild Card odds courtesy of Tipico Sportsbook. Odds last updated Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. ET.

New York Yankees (-135) vs. San Diego Padres (+110)

O/U: 8

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Top 5 Fantasy Baseball sleeper pitchers

Previewing the fantasy baseball landscape and highlighting the top 5 sleeper pitchers for the 2020 MLB season.

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Fantasy baseball managers will need to act quickly in the shortened 2020 MLB season. The 60-game campaign will mean smaller sample sizes of both successes and struggles will carry more weight, and fantasy owners will need to be ready to pounce on the waiver wire and cut ties sooner than usual. Below, we’ll help you get a head start on the 2020 fantasy baseball season with a look at the top-five sleeper pitchers to target in drafts.

Fantasy baseball: Top 5 sleeper pitchers

Kenta Maeda, SP, Minnesota Twins

Average Draft Position (ADP): 171

Acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers this offseason, Maeda joins Jose Berrios and Jake Odorizzi at the front of the Twins’ rotation. Maeda went 10-8 over 37 games (26 starts) and 153 2/3 innings last year while pitching to a 4.04 ERA and 1.07 WHIP with 169 strikeouts against just 51 walks.

Maeda will benefit greatly from the change of scenery. He’ll no longer need to pitch in the hitter-friendly confines of Coors Field and Chase Field, and will instead get to feast on the expected cellar-dwelling Kansas City Royals and Detroit Tigers.

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Steven Matz, SP, New York Mets

ADP: 277

Matz went 11-10 in 32 games (30 starts) while throwing a career-high 160 1/3 innings in 2019. He posted a lackluster 4.21 ERA and 1.34 WHIP, but both those figures improved greatly in the second half of the season, as did his K-BB percentage. The Mets lineup should be much stronger this season and can help provide more win opportunities with improved run support.

Andrew Heaney, SP, Los Angeles Angels

ADP: 198

Heaney was limited to 18 starts and 95 1/3 innings in 2019. He averaged more than 11 strikeouts per nine innings for the second time in his career and walked fewer than three batters per nine for the second straight year. The 29-year-old has been named the Angels’ Opening Day starter and will front a new-look rotation.

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Kyle Hendricks, SP, Chicago Cubs

ADP: 144

Hendricks hasn’t been able to replicate his breakout 2016 campaign in which he pitched to a 2.13 ERA, while going 16-8, but a regression to a 3.44 ERA in 2018 and a 3.46 ERA in 2019 are being viewed too unfavorably. He won’t steal matchups with strikeout totals, but his reliability and consistency will pay off nicely in an otherwise unpredictable season.

Ken Giles, RP, Toronto Blue Jays

ADP: 128

Giles recorded just 23 saves over 53 games last season, but pitched to a sparkling 1.87 ERA with a career-best 14.09 strikeouts per nine innings. He may still struggle to get save opportunities while backing the middling Blue Jays, but should get into games more regularly with teams expected to limit the usage of their top starters in 2020.

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Angels pitcher’s fiery rant offers glimpse of what the Astros should expect this season

“I hope they feel like (expletive).”

MLB spring training opened this week with pitchers and catchers reporting to camps across Arizona and Florida. And predictably, the Astros cheating scandal was at the forefront of everyone’s mind.

The Astros, of course, were punished by MLB for their technology-aided, sign-stealing tactics that definitely included beating up a trash can and maybe-but-maybe-not included wearable buzzers. Either way, the Astros lost their manager, GM, a bunch of draft picks and faced a maximum fine. They didn’t, however, lose their 2017 World Series championship.

And if Angels pitcher Andrew Heaney’s comments are any indication, the Astros should probably expect some brutal treatment from opposing pitchers this season. Speaking to reporters in Tempe, Heaney unloaded on the Astros and took issue on how the players seemingly showed no remorse after getting caught cheating.

He said via The Athletic’s Fabian Ardaya:

“I’m not going to make excuses for those guys. I know how it is. You get caught up in something. I’m sure they look back now and say, ‘Oh (expletive), we really took that overboard.’ But I think somebody in that locker room had to have enough insight to say this is not OK. I haven’t read all the latest (expletive) to know what everybody’s writing about. I don’t know how much is true. But somebody in that locker room had to say, ‘This is (expletive) up. We shouldn’t be doing this.’ For nobody to stand up and nobody to say ‘we’re cheating other players,’ that sucks. That’s a (expletive) feeling for everybody. I hope they feel like (expletive).”

He continued about the Astros’ lack of remorse:

“They sure as (expletive) need to do more than what they already did. That was terrible. I understand they are going to get their (expletive) in order, and they are going to have their thing to say, and they are going to hide behind the commissioner’s report and whatever, but I don’t think that’s good enough.”

And chances are that Heaney isn’t alone with this sentiment. After all, the Astros’ cheating hurt careers. Former Dodgers pitcher Mike Bolsinger even filed a lawsuit over Houston’s cheating. Pitchers were evaluated based on their inability to get the Astros out, and it turned out the Astros knew what pitch was coming.

If one pitcher from the Angels — a team that hasn’t made the playoffs since 2014 — is that angry, just imagine how every other pitcher feels about the Astros’ cheating. In a sport that polices its etiquette by hurling 98 mph projectiles at people, opposing teams aren’t going to go easy on brazen cheaters who weren’t individually punished.

Heaney didn’t explicitly say it, but you can almost expect for opposing pitchers to take discipline into their own hands — and it’s not going to be pleasant for the Astros.

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