{"id":720261,"date":"2026-06-07T03:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720261\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T03:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:22:21","slug":"yankees-red-sox-in-rain-delay-on-saturday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720261\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees, Red Sox in rain delay on Saturday night"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees are in a bit of an odd state heading into play on Saturday against the Red Sox<\/a> at Yankee Stadium. They already know that they\u2019re going to be without Aaron Judge<\/a> for at least the better part of two months (if not more) due to a stress fracture<\/a> in his rib. They\u2019ve lost four of their last six games, including a home series loss to the Guardians that saw the AL Central leaders rough up two previously unflustered aces in Cam Schlittler<\/a> and Gerrit Cole<\/a>. They lost the series opener against Boston<\/a> last night thanks to some gopher-ball antics from Ryan Weathers<\/a> and some defense and approaches at the plate that certainly left fans wanting.<\/p>\n

The latest weirdness includes the catching situation. They\u2019ve received very little production at the plate from the Austin Wells\/J.C. Escarra tandem, and they decided to demote Escarra<\/a> after last night\u2019s game, seemingly with the desire to at least get a right-handed hitter in there in former big leaguer Ali S\u00e1nchez<\/a>. He will start behind the plate on Saturday night. Then at 6:45pm ET \u2014 a little under an hour before first pitch \u2014 they reactivated Escarra because Wells needs to go on the IL<\/a> with cervical headaches that sound downright painful, per the Cleveland Clinic<\/a>. What a joy.<\/p>\n

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Oh, and the relish on top of this bizarre sandwich is that there are thunderstorms in the Tri-State Area and the game won\u2019t begin on time. The Yankees announced this at about the same time as the Wells IL move, and they confirmed the rain delay<\/a> at 7:17pm ET. Reports indicate that they expect to play before too long<\/a> and that the storms will pass soon, but that\u2019s where we are.<\/p>\n

Hang in there and take care of yourself, especially if you\u2019re dealing with neck pain like Wells.<\/p>\n

Update<\/p>\n

They banged it. The doubleheader won\u2019t be until August though, they\u2019ll just have a normal game tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees are in a bit of an odd state heading into play on Saturday against the Red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[6097,60092,64,63,483,7305,29667,591,1025,2704,30138,25618,16088,89961,85,5161,170730,125339],"class_list":["post-720261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-judge","tag-ali-sanchez","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boston","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-ny","tag-rain-delay","tag-red-sox","tag-ryan-weathers","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-wells","tag-yankee-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}