Rain prevented Aaron Decide from spending his birthday on the ballpark.
Saturday afternoon’s recreation between the Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays within the Bronx was postponed as a consequence of inclement climate within the forecast and can now be made up as a part of a single-admission doubleheader on Sunday.
The make-up recreation is predicted to start out half-hour after Sunday’s initially scheduled recreation, which continues to be set to start at 1:35 p.m. EDT.
Tickets for Saturday’s recreation won’t be legitimate for Sunday’s doubleheader, the Yankees mentioned. As an alternative, tickets for Saturday’s recreation will be exchanged — on-line solely — for the same common season recreation.
Max Fried (4-0, 1.42 ERA) is now scheduled to start out the primary recreation of Sunday’s doubleheader for the Yankees, whereas Kevin Gausman (2-2, 3.16 ERA) will pitch for Toronto. That matchup had been set for Saturday.
The second recreation will function the Yankees’ Clarke Schmidt (0-1, 7.45 ERA) towards the Blue Jays’ Chris Bassitt (2-1, 1.88 ERA), which was Sunday’s authentic matchup.
Decide turned 33 on Saturday. He has batted .333 with two house runs in six video games on his birthday.
The reigning American League MVP entered Saturday main MLB hitters with a .408 common, a .508 on-base share, a .714 slugging share and a 1.222 OPS.
The Yankees misplaced Friday evening’s collection opener towards the Blue Jays, 4-2, after nearer Devin Williams blew his first save and fell to 0-2 with a 11.25 ERA this season.
That is the primary collection of the yr between the AL East rivals.
COUSINS UPDATE
Jake Cousins hopes to be again within the Yankees’ bullpen by early-to-mid June.
Cousins, 30, believes he might want to throw a couple of stay BPs earlier than he advances to rehab video games.
“Things feel pretty good, so just monitoring some normal soreness and adding volume,” Cousins mentioned Friday earlier than a bullpen session, which was set to mark his fifth or sixth time throwing from the mound.
Cousins got here into spring coaching with a forearm pressure, then started the season on the 60-day injured checklist with the flexor pressure.
He mentioned he doesn’t know what number of rehab begins he would require earlier than he returns to the energetic roster however likened the work he must do to “having a spring training.”
Cousins pitched to a 2.37 ERA and 53 strikeouts over 38.0 innings with the Yankees final yr.
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