AI SPORTSANALYTICSCleveland took two of three this week, but Tampa Bay leads the last eight meetings 5-3 — Sunday can shift it.
Cleveland and Tampa Bay close the week where they started it: against each other. Sunday's game at Progressive Field is the fourth meeting in less than a week, and the Guardians arrive having won two of the last three — a 7-3 romp on Oct. 13 and a 3-2 edge on Oct. 15, split by a 3-1 Rays win on Oct. 14.
The form lines mirror each other — Cleveland W-L-W, Tampa Bay L-W-L — and every October meeting has changed hands, with no repeat winner yet this week. The wider ledger leans Tampa Bay's way by a single game, and that margin is exactly what Sunday can move.
BéisbolDíaz homered and Aranda drove in two as Tampa Bay's 11-hit road win mirrored Cleveland's 7-3 from five days earlier.
BéisbolFour meetings in six days have split these clubs 2-2; the longer head-to-head tilts Tampa Bay's way.
BéisbolOhtani struck first, but two homers and a bullpen that held firm flipped October's script in Los Angeles.