On Monday night at the Stadium, the Yankees open a four-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays. Here is the lineup.

The Tampa Bay Rays visit the New York Yankees, as a pair of AL East foes clash in the Monday lid-lifter of a 4-game series in the Bronx.

TAMPA — Daniel Pierce was hundreds of miles from home, but he quickly found a slice of it at Steinbrenner Field on Friday. The Atlanta metro area high school community, it turns out, is a closely-connected one. Rays rightfielder Josh Lowe, a fellow metro area product, was quick to engage Pierce in a welcoming conversation and share mutual ties.