The Yankees were swept by the Rays in the American League Division Series

The Yankees, who were the number one wild card seed, were swept by the Rays three games to zero in the ALDS by the Tampa Bay Rays, who finished in first place by 4.5 games in the AL East. Aaron Boone now has a 27–30 record in the playoffs. He is 18–5 against lower seeded teams but 9–25 against higher seeded teams in the playoffs.

The Yankees lost Game Three 4–3 and went 1–6 with runners in scoring position. Ben Rice’s RBI single in the third inning was the team’s only hit with a runner in scoring position. The Yankees went just 0–1 in each of the first two games of this series, which means the Yankees went a not productive or conducive to scoring many runs 1–8 with runners in scoring position. This was after going 9–20 with runners in scoring position in the two-game Wild Card round sweep over the Red Sox. Max Fried allowed four runs in 5.2 innings in this game. In the first two games of the series, Cam Schlittler (two earned runs allowed) and Gerrit Cole (one earned run allowed) combined to allow three earned runs in 9.2 innings and the Yankees lost both of those games.

The Yankees were inept on offense in this ALDS loss to the Rays. The Yankees had a .130 batting average, a .192 on-base percentage, a .239 slugging percentage (SLG) and a .431 OPS. Those stats are their lowest batting average, OBP, SLG and OPS in any multi-game postseason series in the long and illustrious history of the franchise. The Yankees scored five total runs in the three games during…