Another April rain out for the Yankees

So for the third time this season the Yankees will have play at a later date. Tonight's game against the Baltimore Orioles was rained out, and while no make up date was announced it is not a major issue since the division rivals play each other so often.

But the rain outs are a major issue in a different aspect for the Yankees. The rain out could be made up either this weekend (no issue, but very unlikely), in mid May or late August (both issues).



Jorge Posada can run as far as he wants,
but won't be able to avoid a rain out.

If the Orioles were to elect to make up the game in the middle of May (May 18th and 19th), it would come when the Yankees are already set to play 17 straight days. The Yanks might not mind this option as much as expected since most of the games during that stretch are at home, and right before they go to Baltimore they play the Rays in Tampa, only a short trip away. But the Orioles might not opt for this option,most teams would rather get the most money they could from selling tickets and concessions and the two game set is during the middle of the week (Weds/Thurs) and the teams would be forced to play a double header, so one game would be during the day, another loss at the gate since school is still in session and people would be at work.

The other option would be to battle it out at the end of August, the bombers are currently set to play 12 straight games during that time. Of course the temperatures would be much warmer and as an older team the Yanks probably would not want to have to play 13 games in 12 days. The four series against the Orioles is on the weekend and a Monday, so as long as the make up was during the weekend the Orioles would be making their money back.

What's with players running before rain outs? This
time before the O's got rained out at the stadium.

The likely make up date will be sometime in August since the weekends would satisfy Peter Angelo and the O's, and it would be more flexible of what day the game could be made up.

Of course the Yankees still need to make up a game against the Twins and Orioles at the stadium sometime before the season ends, so the end of the season could be rough for the bombers.