Yankees and Mets rained out on Friday night, will play July 4th doubleheader

The Yankees were supposed to begin their annual Subway Series showdown at Yankee Stadium on Friday night, but instead, the fans in attendance were treated to only warmups and later, running exercises from the grounds crew. The tarp came off the field in the Bronx a couple times before the scheduled start time, but once the delay began, it never ended.

It took until a little after 8:30pm ET for the Yankees to make any kind of announcement on length of delay, and when they did, they just announced the rainout. The two teams will make it up on Sunday as part of a July 4th doubleheader with the first game beginning at 2:05pm ET and the second at the normally scheduled time of 7:08pm ET. A later report revealed that the Mets declined a suggested two-stadium doubleheader in September.

Jordan Montgomery will pitch tomorrow and Gerrit Cole will go Sunday. The third starter has yet to be announced (Michael King and Nestor Cortes are possibilities), though it will not be Jameson Taillon, who is set for Tuesday in Seattle after the Monday off-day.

Because the Yankees are the Yankees and can’t make anything with their fans easy, it will be a split-admission doubleheader and tickets tonight will only be valid for the matinee (and this is all happening on July 4th, when they may have had other plans anyway). Additionally, these two games will of course only vaguely be real, as they’ll be seven innings each.

The fans were not pleased and chose to just hang out at Yankee Stadium after the announcement.

We love baseball in 2021, don’t we folks? See you tomorrow.