The Cleveland Guardians pulled away with the AL Central doof TMwn the stretch and then took care of Tampa bay in the wildcard round. They now will take on the AL East Division champion New York Yankees. Cal Quantrill will take his 15-5 record and 3.38 ERA to the mound. He will face off against the Yankees' Gerrit Cole, who is 13-8, with a 3.50 ERA. The Guardians are 26-4 in their last thirty games and they are an incredible 30-17 in one-run games. In Quantrill's last five starts, he is 3-0 with an ERA of 2.76.


The New York Yankees have had Friday off since they last took the field. The Yankees finished the season as the league's leading home run team, the 2nd highest-scoring offense, and the third-best bullpen ERA in baseball. Gerrit Cole will look to get the Yanks off to a strong start. Cole won 13 games, set a team record with 257 strikeouts but also led the American League in giving up 33 home runs. Cole allowed 10 home runs in just 36 innings in September. He pitched well against the Guardians, posting a 2-0 record in two starts with a 1.42 ERA with 15 strikeouts. In his last five games, however, Cole is 2-1 with a 5.22 ERA.

Cole will need a good start in this one. He is 8-5 in his career in the playoffs with an ERA of 2.93 in 14 career starts. He has allowed 15 home runs in those 14 starts and struck out 11.6 batters per nine innings.

The Yankees can generate runs with their power but if they can't hit the ball out of the park they struggle to manufacture runs. The top of the order can be potent but the bottom part of the lineup does not produce much. Cleveland doesn't hit the long ball, but they do have a couple of people that do have some pop. As they have shown in the Tampa Bay series, the bottom of the lineup is more than capable of getting on base and producing runs. With the Yankees having a few days off, they may be a little slow at the plate. Cleveland has a chance to steal game one ad at this price it is worth a shot.

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