NEW YORK — The Rays open their three-game series at Yankee Stadium tonight, hoping the weather cooperates and allows the teams to get in all three games.Rain is expected all three days. The tarp was on the field at Yankee Stadium earlier Monday, but the showers have subsided enough for both teams to have batting practice on the field.This will be Edwin Encarnacion’s first game with the Yankees. He is batting fifth as the Yankees’ starting DH.Encarnacion, who hit a league-leading 21 homers with the Mariners, is no stranger to the AL East after playing in Toronto for so many years.He has 18 career homers at Yankee Stadium, Encarnacion's most in any opposing ballpark, and is hitting .263/.330/.510 in 69 games at Yankee Stadium. But he's hitting just .209/.305/.422 in 130 career games against the Rays.Yankees starter Masahiro Tanaka has a 0.69 ERA in two starts against the Rays this season, allowing just one earned run over 13 innings with 13 strikeouts and no walks.Here are tonight's starting lineups RAYS Austin Meadows DHTommy Pham LFBrandon Lowe 2BAvisail Garcia RFJi-Man Choi 1BKevin Kiermaier CFWilly Adames SSJoey Wendle 3BMike Zunino CYonny Chirinos RHP YANKEES DJ LeMahieu 3BLuke Voit 1BAaron Hicks CFGary Sanchez CEdwin Encarnacion DHDidi Gregorius SSGleyber Torres 2BCameron Maybin RFBrett Gardner LFMasahiro Tanaka RHP Contact Eduardo A. Encina at eencina@tampabay.com. Follow @EddieInTheYard.
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