When Aaron Boone had his ALDS Game 5 pregame media conference just after 4 p.m. on Monday, he noted he was scheduled to be on a call with MLB around 4:30 about the weather situation in New York – which he heard was “not great.”
Indeed, rain is in the forecast for the Yankee Stadium area for much of the evening, although how intense it will be seems to vary from forecast to forecast, so what happens (or happened, now) on that call will determine how much, if any, baseball is played in the Bronx tonight.
“I know I'll probably be on a Zoom call with the league and with Cleveland, representatives from us, and they will probably walk through what the latest forecast is, and the couple of different experts they will have on to talk through that; this is what we're looking at,” Boone said. “So we’ll see.”
Ultimately, any decision on the game is up to Major League Baseball, although the Yankees’ skipper noted that “I think everyone kind of has a say.”
If they can’t play tonight, it will be tomorrow – likely an early-afternoon game to give whichever team wins more time to get to Houston for ALCS Game 1 Wednesday night – but Boone is hopeful that MLB doesn’t try to slog through something that could affect both teams, even in a game where losing the starter isn’t necessarily an issue.
“Even in the regular season, I don’t love (playing through rain); I don’t want to do that,” he said. “If weather is an issue, like I don't want to be powering through that necessarily.”
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