Where to Watch Yankees vs Guardians: TV Channel, ALCS Game 2 Live Stream for MLB Playoffs, Odds, Time

Major League Baseball’s postseason continues Tuesday with Game 2 of the American League Championship Series between the Cleveland Guardians and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees earned a 5-2 victory in Game 1 on Monday. Each team will start their ace in Game 2 when Gerrit Cole and Tanner Bibee take the mound.

Now here is the streaming information for Tuesday night’s game as well as a question for each team.

Where to watch Yankees vs. Guardians?

Date: Tuesday, Oct. 15 | Time: 7:38 p.m. ET
Location: Yankee Stadium (New York)
TV channels: TBS, TruTV | Live stream: Max
Likely throwers: RHP Gerrit Cole (NYY) vs. RHP Tanner Bibee (CLE)
Opportunities: CLE +143, NYY -170 | O/U: 7

Guardians: Can they take an early lead?

Cleveland has the best bullpen in baseball and truly one of the best bullpens of all time. However, it’s always a little difficult when the best part of your team is the bullpen because the bullpen relies on the other parts of the roster. The starting rotation and offense must give the bullpen leads to protect it, otherwise your great bullpen doesn’t do much more than try to keep games close in the late innings. That was the case in the first game when the Guardians fell behind 3-0 in the third game.

Setup men Hunter Gaddis and Cade Smith, lefty Tim Herrin and closer Emmanuel Clase each had two days off before Game 2. I expect all of them to be good for at least four outs, maybe even six. It’s conceivable that those four could cover up to six innings on Tuesday night. Bibee is Cleveland’s ace and they would like to get seven shutout innings from him. But with a looming 2-0 deficit in the series, I doubt Bibee will have a long leash. The Guardians will get into that bullpen at some point.

The question is whether the offense can put some runs on the line early and play from the front and give the bullpen a lead in protection. The Guardians have scored a total of six runs in the first four innings of games this postseason, including five in the first inning of Game 1 against the Detroit Tigers in the Division Series. They scored most of their points in the middle and late innings. Not so much early. That’s a trend they’d like to buck in Game 2.

Cole is the best starting pitcher left in the postseason, and he was great in the deciding Division Series game against the Kansas City Royals, allowing just one run in 6 2/3 innings. It won’t be easy to get a few early runs against Cole in Game 2, but if their bullpen is rested and ready to go, something like this could really swing the game in Cleveland’s favor.

Yankees: Will they start hitting?

Certainly an odd question for a team that is 4-1 this postseason, but the Yankees are hitting .218 with a .353 slugging percentage in those five games. That’s the lowest batting average among the seven teams that played at least five games this October. They are 6-for-41 (.146) with runners in scoring position and 16-for-84 (.190) with runners on base in the postseason. The Yankees have stranded a lot of runners in their five games.

And yet New York wins because they displayed absurd plate discipline – 37 strikeouts and 34 walks in five games – and hit timely home runs and timely wild pitches. The Yankees scored their five runs on Monday night with two solo homers, a sacrifice fly and two run-scoring wild pitches. They are the first team ever to throw multiple run-scoring wild pitches in a postseason game, all in the same inning (and across six pitches).

Aaron Judge is 2-of-15 (.133) this postseason. his October problems continue. Austin Wells is 2 for 20 (.100). That’s a combined 4 for 35 (.114) for the 3-4 hitters. The Yankees were anchored by the greats Juan Soto and Giancarlo Stanton. who gets back to the point in the postseason. Gleyber Torres was also a force up front.

At some point, however, the Yankees will need Judge (and Wells) to hit and more offense in general. They continue to wear down pitchers – only one of the five starters they faced this postseason has gone five innings – and draw walks and build rallies, but they don’t convert those rallies into enough runs. Three times in five postseason games, the Yankees put two runners on with no outs in the first inning but failed to score. The possibilities are there. Can they start making money and really take control of the games?