MLB division collection Sunday: Highlights, scores, takeaways

Three matchups within the division collection spherical of the 2022 MLB playoffs ended Saturday, however one sport stays on Sunday — and one among baseball’s most historic franchises is taking part in for its season.

The New York Yankees have a must-win American League Division Sequence Recreation 4 in opposition to the Cleveland Guardians, who gained on a walk-off Saturday within the first sport at Progressive Discipline. Will New York prolong its season by forcing a Monday showdown within the Bronx, or will Cleveland transfer on to face the Houston Astros within the American League Championship Sequence?

We have got you lined for each intense second with lineups, beginning pitchers, what to look at for and predictions earlier than the sport after which reside updates and takeaways as soon as the motion begins.

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New York Yankees at Cleveland Guardians (7:07 ET on TBS)

Guardians lead collection 2-1

Yankees starter: Gerrit Cole (13-8, 3.50 ERA, 257 Ok)

Guardians starter: Cal Quantrill (15-5, 3.38 ERA, 128 Ok)

Beginning lineups:

YANKEES

TBD

GUARDIANS

TBD

What to look at for: Terry Francona mentioned the Guardians’ hope all through Recreation 3 was to place the Yankees ready the place they’d to make use of their main relievers whereas additionally having the ability to avoid utilizing their very own key firemen akin to Emmanuel Clase, James Karinchak and Trevor Stephan. Mission completed. Now the Guardians get an elimination at house with a rested bullpen in entrance of a crowd that guarantees to be much more raucous than it was Saturday, and it was awfully raucous Saturday. For New York, the primary factor that may make the highlight on Aaron Boone dim just a bit is for Gerrit Cole to return out and dominate deep into Recreation 4. — Bradford Doolittle

Predictions:

Joon Lee: Yankees 5-2. Cole comes by for the Yankees on the mound as New York forces a decisive Recreation 5 again within the Bronx.

Alden Gonzalez: Yankees 4-1. Cole has pitched very nicely in opposition to the Guardians this season, giving up solely three runs in 19 innings by three begins, together with Recreation 1 of this collection. That may proceed with the Yankees’ season on the road in Recreation 4.

Bradford Doolittle: Guardians 3-1. The Yankees are Gulliver and the Guardians are the Lilliputians — and if I bear in mind the story proper, the Lilliputians did a fairly good job of conserving Gulliver underneath wraps. Additionally, the Guardians’ bullpen is rested and able to shut this factor out.

Jeff Passan: Yankees 3, Guardians 2. Cal Quantrill by no means has misplaced a sport at Progressive Discipline, however the Yankees, behind one other nice pitching efficiency from Gerrit Cole, claw out a win and pressure a decisive Recreation 5 on Monday at Yankee Stadium.