How Many Makeup Games Do The Yankees Have

NEW YORK (AP) — The series opener betwixt the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees was postponed for a second…

NEW YORK (AP) — The series opener between the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees was postponed for a second direct day on Sat because of a forecast for sustained rain in the expanse.

The postponement was announced near four hours earlier game fourth dimension. The Rangers and Yankees will make up the game Monday at one:05 p.thousand.

They had been scheduled to play Friday night, a game that was rained out about eight hours earlier the scheduled outset pitch. That game will at present exist played Sunday as office of a single-admission doubleheader beginning at ane:35 p.m.

This weekend marks Texas' only scheduled trip to Yankee Stadium this flavour.

The Yankees lead the majors with an 18-seven record after their 11-game winning streak was snapped Wednesday night with a ii-ane loss in Toronto. The Rangers are 10-xiv only have a flavor-all-time iv-game winning streak afterward taking both games in their interleague serial at Philadelphia.

Yankees ace Gerrit Cole (2-0, 3.00 ERA) is set up to pitch the commencement game of Sunday's doubleheader against correct-hander Dane Dunning (1-1, three.81). Cole had been scheduled to commencement Friday night, and Dunning was prepare for Texas on Saturday.

Glenn Otto (1-0, ii.89), who was initially ready to go for Texas in the serial opener against Cole, volition instead pitch the second game of Sunday's doubleheader against left-hander Jordan Montgomery (0-1, 2.88). The scheduled starters for Monday are right-hander Jon Gray (0-1, seven.50) for the Rangers and lefty Nestor Cortes (1-one, 1.82) for the Yankees.

New York is now scheduled to play 23 games in 22 days and volition accept only one mean solar day off while playing 29 games over 29 days through June 5.

The last time Texas had dorsum-to-back games postponed was in May 2006 in Boston. The Rangers are now scheduled for 16 games in 15 days from Lord's day through May 22 and 32 games in 32 days with only i day off through June viii.

Including Thursday'southward off day, this is the kickoff fourth dimension the Rangers have gone iii days in a row due to weather-related issues since the commencement of the 1982 season. The first two games that season — April six and April eight at Yankee Stadium — were snowed out, and Texas didn't play its opener until April 10 at Cleveland.

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