Nasty weather postpones Opening Day at Yankee Stadium
The Yankees and Astros will have to wait one more day for their seasons to begin. Opening Day at Yankee Stadium has been postponed due to rain.
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Mike Axisa
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Yankees and Astros fans will have to wait one more day for the regular season to begin. Monday's season-opener at Yankee Stadium has already been postponed due to inclement weather in New York, the Yankees announced.
MLB builds extra off-days into the April schedule for this exact reason. The Opening Day game will be made up at 1pm ET on Tuesday. They just pushed everything back one day. The last Opening Day rainout in New York was in 2008, the last year of the old Yankee Stadium.
Of course, this season-opening series is a rematch of last year's AL Wild Card game, right down to the pitching matchup: Masahiro Tanaka vs. reigning AL Cy Young award winner Dallas Keuchel. That will indeed be the pitching matchup in Tuesday's makeup game.
A rainout on Opening Day is a total bummer, but Mother Nature is not always accommodating. So it goes. You've made it this far, Yanks and 'Stros fans. One more day won't be the end of the world.
For fans with tickets to Monday's game, the Yankees say you can use your tickets for Tuesday's makeup game or exchange it for another 2016 game.
