To understand how seriously the Yankees have taken games against their division rivals, the Tampa Bay Rays, this season, consider Manager Aaron Boone's second-inning outburst in the first game of his team's doubleheader sweep on Thursday. After a called strike by the rookie umpire Brennan Miller, who had already .... And the Yankees, who hold an eight-game lead, are 12-5 against the Rays this season, compared with 6-1 against the Red Sox. Several times this season and last, tensions have flared during a ...