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The New York Yankees and Oakland Athletics will face off in the third game of their four-game series with both teams looking to secure at least a series split. The Yankees are coming off a 4-3 win on Tuesday night, while the Athletics lost 2-0 in the series opener on Monday. The Yankees have struggled offensively this season, with the trio of Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge, and Anthony Rizzo hitting a combined .213 with 10 homers and 33 RBIs after combining to hit 198 homers the previous two seasons. The Athletics, on the other hand, have been encouraged by the lack of late-inning hiccups in New York. Oakland, which arrived in New York after being outscored 22-7 while being swept by the Cleveland Guardians in a three-game series, earned the 2-0 win Monday when starter JP Sears and relievers Lucas Erceg and Mason Miller combined to hold the Yankees to three hits.

One day after Yankees manager Aaron Boone was ejected by home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt for something a fan said, another umpire John Tumpane almost did the same. In the top of the fourth inning of the second game against the A’s on Tuesday, Tumpane called a strike on a Marcus Stroman sinker outside of the strike zone. This sparked the ire of Oakland’s manager Mark Kotsay, who barked at Tumpane from the visitor’s dugout. Like deja vu, Tumpane barked back, and the YES Network booth was all over it. Fortunately, Tumpane didn’t toss Kotsay. Unlike the previous day when Boone was accused of lying by blaming the umpire heckling on a fan, even though a live mic from YES backed up the manager.