First, the good news: this afternoon’s game was not on the YES Network’s original Spring Training broadcast schedule, but they picked it up at some point, so we’ll be able to watch. Hooray for that.
Now, the bad news: it’s raining in Tampa. The weather forecast doesn’t look particularly promising either. The internet tells me it’s going to continue raining pretty heavily until about 5pm ET. This is only a Spring Training game, so they’re not going to wait out a rain storm. They’ll cancel the game sooner rather than later and let the players do their work inside.
The Braves made the 70-mile trip down from Disney for this afternoon’s game. Hopefully the weather clears up and they can play a few innings. I could really use some baseball today. Here is the Braves’ lineup and here is the Yankees’ lineup:
- CF Jacoby Ellsbury
- SS Didi Gregorius
- DH Alex Rodriguez
- 1B Mark Teixeira
- RF Carlos Beltran
- 3B Chase Headley
- 2B Starlin Castro
- C Carlos Corporan
- LF Chris Denorfia
RHP Michael Pineda
Available Pitchers & Position Players: Not sure, sorry. Probably not going to matter anyway with the rain.
This afternoon’s game is scheduled to begin a bit after 1pm ET. If they do manage to play at some point, you’ll be able to watch on YES locally and MLB.tv everywhere. This is no MLB Network broadcast. Not even on tape delay. Enjoy hoping it doesn’t rain.
Update (12:54pm ET): The Yankees say the game will begin at 1:30pm ET.
Update (1:28pm ET): The start time is now 2:10pm ET.
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