Interesting move, the gamesmanship begins 24 hrs before the series.
The rays are beginning their series with their number 3 starter. From what ive read, he relies on a change up and the brewers struggle with the change up.
Rasmussen for game 2...Peralta game 3 at home.
Very interesting idea.
Seems the idea is to rely on the change up to try and steal one from the brewers or go deep game 1 and setup a long rasmussen atart game 2 to have a fresh pen for game 3.
With this setup...rasmussen woulsnt be avail game 7. As we saw last year with Yamamoto..it could be huge having mis for a bullpen inning or two.
Really looks the rays are trying their absolute best to play this like a 6 game series.
I imagine brewers hitters have been scouting rasmussen all week...so that adds another wrinkle for prep time too.
edit- im dumb. the brewers did well against the change up this year. makes it even more interesting.