{"id":186641,"date":"2026-04-05T22:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186641\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T22:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:34:11","slug":"yankees-marlins-still-in-rain-delay-on-sunday-start-time-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/186641\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees, Marlins still in rain delay on Sunday (start time announced)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees are off to a sterling 7-1 start to the 2026 season and have already guaranteed themselves a third consecutive series victory. After sweeping the Giants and taking two out of three from the Mariners in Seattle, they\u2019ve won the first two games of their first homestand of the campaign, beating the Marlins on Friday, 8-2<\/a>, and then 9-7<\/a> last night. They\u2019re eyeing another dusting today with Opening Day starter Max Fried on the mound, as he has yet to allow a run through two starts.<\/p>\n

The Marlins aren\u2019t a pushover, but Fried\u2019s toughest opponent today might actually be the weather. It\u2019s lousy today in the tri-state area and the Double-A Somerset Patriots have already postponed<\/a> their series finale in Bridgewater against the Portland Sea Dogs (the High-A Hudson Valley Renegades have since done the same<\/a>). Similarly, the tarp is on the field in the Bronx, and the Yankees have announced a delay to Sunday\u2019s matinee.<\/p>\n

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Major League Baseball, however, is going to do everything it can to get this game in against the Marlins because it\u2019s difficult to reschedule interleague series postponements. This is the only Yankees\/Marlins series of the year and while the Fish will return to the area for series against the Mets, it would be very annoying to find an offday where they could theoretically play the Yankees.<\/p>\n

MLB has time to wait this out until later, as the forecast says it will indeed stop raining before nightfall. At the very least, this isn\u2019t starting until 3pm ET<\/a>, and later is more likely.<\/p>\n

Hang in there with us, put on some music or something, and we\u2019ll tune into the series finale together when it actually starts!<\/p>\n

Update<\/p>\n

This is not a rain-related update, but it is an interesting wrinkle: The Marlins will no longer be starting Chris Paddack as initially expected. Closer Pete Fairbanks\u2019 wife is pregnant and will be induced tomorrow morning, so he will instead start this game with Paddack following.<\/p>\n

Non-Update Update<\/p>\n

What else can one say but \u201clol.\u201d Hang in there, folks.<\/p>\n

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Actual Update<\/p>\n

All right, now we\u2019re in business. See you fine folks a little after five o\u2019clock! It only took \u2026 a breezy three and a half hours or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees are off to a sterling 7-1 start to the 2026 season and have already guaranteed themselves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[128,74759,71058,74842,34720,9,24,55,54,321,56,36893,74865,1842,74864,53809,820],"class_list":{"0":"post-186641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-chris-paddack","10":"tag-mariners","11":"tag-marlins","12":"tag-max-fried","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-city-news","17":"tag-new-york-yankees","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-pete-fairbanks","20":"tag-rain-delayed-start","21":"tag-seattle","22":"tag-series-finale","23":"tag-the-mets","24":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}