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What channel is the New York Yankees vs. Tampa Bay Rays game on today (20-07-24)?

The New York Yankees will play the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday, July 20, 2024 at Yankee Stadium in New York City.

How to watch: Fans can watch the game for FREE via DirecTV Stream and fuboTV.

Here’s what you need to know:

What: Three-game AL East division series

Who: New York Yankees vs. Tampa Bay Rays

When: Saturday, July 20, 2024

Time: 1:30pm ET

Where: Yankee Stadium

TV: YES Network

Transmitter finder: Verizon Fio’s, AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimal/Height, helmsman, DIRECTTV,Dish, Hulu, fuboTV, Garland.

Livestream: DirecTV stream (free trial), fuboTV (free trial)

Here’s a recent MLB story from the AP:

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Major League Baseball could test robot umpires as part of a challenge system during spring training next year, which could lead to regular-season use in 2026.

MLB has been experimenting with the automated ball-striking system in the minor leagues since 2019, but the shape of the strike zone is still being worked on.

“I said at the owners meeting that it’s not likely that we’re going to bring ABS to the major leagues without a test before spring training. OK, so if it’s ’24, that leaves me with ’25 as the year to do your test before spring training if we can work out these issues, which would make ’26 a viable possibility,” baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said Tuesday during a meeting with the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. “But is that going to be the year? I’m not going to be flippant about that.

“We’ve made material progress. I think the technology is good down to a hundredth of an inch. The technology in terms of the path of the ball is complete.”

Triple-A stadiums are using ABS for the second straight season, but there’s been little enthusiasm to call the strike zone the cube it’s written into the rulebook. Plus, MLB has experimented with tweaks during minor league testing.

The ABS currently calls strikes based solely on where the ball crosses the center of the plate, 8.5 inches from the front and back. The top of the strike zone has been increased this year from 51% to 53.5% of batter height, and the bottom remains at 27%.

“We still have technical issues surrounding the definition of the strike zone that need to be resolved,” Manfred said.

After spending the first 2.5 months of the Triple-A season using the robot for only the first three games of each series and the last three games being officiated by a human using a challenge system, MLB switched to a challenge-only system on June 25, in which a human umpire makes nearly all of the calls.

Each team currently has three challenges in the Pacific Coast League and two in the International League. A team keeps its challenge if it is successful, similar to the rules for major league teams with video reviews.

“The challenge system is more likely or more supported, if you will, than the straight ABS system,” Tony Clark, head of the players’ association, said earlier Tuesday during a separate session with the BBWAA. “There are people who have no interest in it at all. There are people who are even concerned about the challenge system, about how the strike zone itself is going to be considered, what that looks like, how consistent it is going to be, what happens in a world where Wi-Fi in the stadium goes down or the technology is not working properly on any given night.

“We see those issues, albeit in minor league stadiums,” Clark added. “We don’t want to end up in a world where we have more questions than answers in a major league stadium about the integrity of that night’s game or the decisions that go into it.”

Changes to the rules are submitted to an 11-member competition committee, consisting of four players, an umpire and six team representatives. For the 2023 season, the committee has adopted a pitch clock and restrictions on defensive shifts without player support.

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