Yankees-Guardians rained out; split doubleheader Saturday
New York Yankees starting pitcher Clarke Schmidt reacts after being taken out of the game during the fifth inning of an MLB baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium on Saturday, April 6, 2024. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
CLEVELAND — Maybe the weather will at last stall some of the momentum the Yankees have established two weeks into the season.
Nothing else has.
The Yankees, off to the second-best 13-game start in franchise history at 10-3, did not get a chance to build on that Friday night as their game against the Guardians, off to a 9-3 start of their own, was rained out.
It will be made up as part of a split doubleheader Saturday, the games starting at 12:10 p.m. and 6:10 p.m., respectively.
Clarke Schmidt, Friday night’s scheduled starter, will start the first game and Cody Poteet will start the second game.
It was not immediately clear how the Yankees will juggle the rotation from there. Luis Gil, initially slated to throw Saturday, could be bumped to Sunday, but the club might not want to disrupt the routine of Sunday’s scheduled starter, Nestor Cortes. If the case is the latter, Gil, the fifth starter, instead could slot in during the upcoming series in Toronto, which starts Monday.
