Rays wait for ALCS opponent after winning 101 games playing any brand of baseball needed to win

The Tampa Bays Rays showed they can play any brand of baseball during a sweep of the New York Yankees.They mixed power from likely and unlikely sources and their usual small-ball style along with dominant pitching, excellent fielding and strong fundamentals.That was the formula that led to 98 wins in the regular season, three more against the Yankees and has the Rays waiting for their opponent in the AL Championship Series.Tampa Bay faces either the Cleveland Guardians or Chicago White Sox. Game 5 of that series is Saturday night.“I think what the guys have done so incredibly well is shown the ability to kind of adjust on the fly and some of that is reactive,” manager Kevin Cash said Friday. “Like, we got a starter that’s rolling against us or some tough matchups for us, to have the ability to shift gears and say, alright, we’re gonna see if we can get a leadoff runner on or get a guy at second base and move him over, or we put pressure on the defense when you got a high strikeout guy