Yankee fans will have to wait a little bit longer for the season to start.
With a wet forecast in store for Thursday, when the Yankees were scheduled to play their season opener against the Red Sox in The Bronx, the game was postponed Wednesday morning and will be played Friday at 1:05 p.m. at the Stadium.
Both teams will work out at the Stadium on Thursday.
It comes in a season that was already delayed by a week due to the MLB lockout that lasted over three months, which resulted in a shortened spring training.
The Yankees had been scheduled to begin their season in Texas on March 31, but both that series and the following series in Houston were postponed and will be made up later in the year, with the Yankees taking two trips to visit the Astros to make up those three games and then finishing the year in Texas, where they will play the final four games of the season.
Prior to Wednesday’s announcement of the postponement, Aaron Judge talked about the added excitement about Opening Day this season.
“Especially after the lockout and how crazy the offseason was, not knowing when we were gonna play baseball or if we were gonna play at all this year and finally striking a deal [for a new collective bargaining agreement], making a lot of big moves, this is gonna be a fun year,’’ Judge said in Tampa on Tuesday. “This is gonna be a fun year.”
