CLEVELAND — Mother Nature just seems to love toying with our baseball team...
Friday night's Guardians game—the scheduled opener of a three-game series against the New York Yankees—has been postponed due to rain and thunderstorms in the area. It's already the eighth home rainout for Cleveland this season, with the bulk of those being made up via doubleheaders.
With this being the Bronx Bombers' only trip to Progressive Field in 2022, that will once again be the case, although perhaps that could be an extra treat for fans this Fourth of July Weekend. As part of a split doubleheader, the opener will instead be played at 12:10 p.m. Saturday, followed by the regularly scheduled game at 6:10.
Those with tickets to tonight's game can either use them for tomorrow afternoon's contest or exchange them for one of 44 additional options the rest of the season. Single-game ticket holders can exchange them by logging on to CLEGuardians.com/mytickets, while season ticket holders must due so through the My Tickets Exchange program on MLB.com.
The Guardians currently sit one game behind the Minnesota Twins for first place in the American League Central Division, while the Yankees lay claim to baseball's best record at 56-21. New York previously swept a three-game series from Cleveland in the Bronx back in April.
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