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As New York, Tampa Bay Are Starting Three Game Series Tonight In St. Petersburg Florida Gerrit Cole, Zach Eflin Are Starting

As New York the team that wears the pinstripes, Tampa Bay are starting three game series tonight in St. Petersburg Florida Gerrit Cole, Zach Eflin are starting.

Where?

On the mound!

Gerrit Cole, Zach Eflin are alike because they’re both right handed starting pitchers!

Gerrit Cole comes into the game with a record of 10-4 with an earn run average of 3.03 because on Saturday August 19, 2023 verses Boston in Bronx New York Gerrit Cole pitched 4.0 surrendering 7 hits, 6 runs, 6 earned runs , 2 home runs, 1 walk while striking out 4 Boston batters.

Zach Eflin comes into the game with record of 13-7 with an earn run average of 3.58 because on Saturday August 19, 2023 at Los Angeles (Angels) pitched 6.0 innings surrendering 4 hits, 1 earned run , 1 home run hit a batter , walked a batter struck out 4 Los Angeles (Angels) batters.

Though,

Could mother nature prevent Gerrit Cole, Zach Eflin from making their starts as scheduled?

There is not a possibility of that happening though its partly sunny with 7% at first pitch , 5 % chance 30 minutes following first pitch, 0 % chance at 8:00pm, 9:00pm, 10:00pm when the game is supposed to be over because Tampa Bay plays in a dome.

According to mlb.com

New York the team that wears the pinstripes comes into the game with record of 61-66 is last in the American League East 18.0 games back of Baltimore who is in first place in the American League East Tampa Bay who is in second place in the American League East with record of 78-51 is 10.0 games back in Wild Card standings because they lost two out of three games to Washington who unlike them is a member of the National League East including the finale 6-5 Thursday in Bronx New York where Tommy Kahnle surrendering home runs to Alex Call, CJ Abrams in top of 7th inning Thursday afternoon led to New York the team that wears the pinstripes sustaining 6-5 loss to Washington in Bronx New York.

Before sustaining 6-5 loss to Washington Thursday in Bronx New York New York the team that wears the pinstripes took a 1-0 lead as court was in session as Aaron Judge homered to center 421 feet before Jake Alu scored on error, Joey Meneses was safe on fielding error by Anthony Volpe tying game 1-1 in top of 3rd inning before New York the team that wears the pinstripes countered in the bottom of 3rd inning as Gleyber Torres homered to left 344 feet scoring DJ Lemahieu . In the top of 7th Jake Alu singled scoring Carter Kieboom getting Washington within 2-3 before taking 4-3 5-3 leads on home runs by Alex Call, CJ Abrams off New York the team that wears the pinstripes reliever Tommy Kahnle. In bottom of 8th Giancarlo Stanton homered to center 5-4 to get New York the team that wears the pinstripes within 1 run before Joey Meneses reached on infield single to New York the team that wears the pinstripes reliever Clay Holmes scoring Alex Call in top of 9th inning before Giancarlo Stanton singled to left scoring Oswald Peraza getting New York the team that wears the pinstripes within 6-5.

Following New York the team that wears the pinstripes 6-5 loss to Washington New York the team that wears the pinstripes Aaron Boone had this to say had this to say about reliever Tommy Kahnle who surrendered home runs to Alex Call, CJ Abrams!

It looked like he just lacked some depth to his pitches; that's what I noticed today,”When he's really good, he's got great arm speed and great deception with his changeup. … I thought his pitches looked a little vulnerable.”

Talk about winning a series -- for nine games there, we couldn’t win a game,”“I thought we swung the bats well today. Made a couple mistakes that show up in this game. … So, yeah, it's frustrating you couldn’t finish it off, especially when you got a lead and you know the back end of the bullpen’s coming. But we've got to move on.”

Following New York the team that wears the pinstripes 6-5 loss to Washington New York the team that wears the pinstripes reliever Tommy Kahnle who relieved Jhony Brito who pitched 0.2 innings surrendering 3 hits, 3 earned runs while striking out 2 Washington batters had this to say!

It’s basically just location,” said the 34-year-old right-hander. “I mean, they're right over the middle. And it seems that guys are starting to catch on that that's my go-to pitch, and [it] seems I need to make an adjustment and go from there.”

Following New York the team that wears the pinstripes 6-5 loss to Washington New York the team that wears the pinstripes starting pitcher Michael King who usually comes out of bullpen as a reliever who pitched 2.2 innings surrendering 1 hit, 2 walks while striking out 3 Washington batters had this to say about New York the team that wears the pinstripes!

I feel like we've been frustrated a lot this year,”We're doing our work. We're trying to stick with our routine, trying to turn this thing around. … It just didn't all come together, and that's when you know you're going through it. When the pitchers do well, the hitters aren't; when the hitters are doing well, the pitchers aren’t. It's tough that way.”

According to Betelhem Ashame article on mlb.com

Tampa Bay who is second in the American League East comes into the game with record of 78-51 is 2.0 games back of Baltimore who is leading the American League East though they swept Colorado who unlike them are a member of the National League West including winning the finale 5-3 Thursday in St. Petersburg Florida where home runs were the name of the game as Luke Raley homered to right center 428 feet in bottom of 2nd inning giving Tampa Bay a 2-0 lead . In the bottom of 6th inning Issac Paredes homered to left center 387 feet tying up game 3-3. In bottom of 8th inning Josh Lowe homered to right 452 feet scoring Randy Arozarena giving Tampa Bay 5-3 lead.

Following Tampa Bay’s 5-3 win over Colorado Thursday in St. Petersburg Florida Tampa Bay Jason Adam who relieved Erasmo Ramirez who pitched 2.0 innings surrendering 0 hits, 0 earned runs , 0 walks while striking out 5 Colorado batters had this to say!

“It's a great time of year to be doing that. This is the time we want to be peaking. We want to be peaking into September and October,”

We know we had a not-great stretch for a bit, but that's baseball, the ups and downs. So we want to try to replicate [games] like this as often as we can.”

Following Tampa Bay’s 5-3 win over Colorado Thursday in St. Petersburg Florida Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash had this to say about his third baseman Issac Paredes who homered to left center 387 feet tying up the game 3-3 in bottom of 6th inning following Nolan Jones giving Colorado the brief 3-2 lead as he homered to right center 376 feet scoring Brenton Doyle, Charlie Blackmon What a season he's putting together,“Man, he's got a knack for getting big hits and big home runs for us.”

According to Adam Berry article on mlb.com

First pitch is set for 6:40pm from Tropicana Field!

The game is going to be televised on Yes, Bally Sports Sun!