BALTIMORE – The Yankees-Orioles game Sunday was postponed because of the threat of all-day rain, leaving both teams with yet another doubleheader down the road.
It was the second rainout during the scheduled four-game series, and the start of Saturday's game was delayed by rain for 1 hour, 44 minutes.
The rainout Sunday will be made up in a split doubleheader on Aug. 25. Baltimore and New York also will play a doubleheader July 9 at Camden Yards because of Thursday's postponement.
Sunday's postponement was the 37th of the season, two shy of the total for all of 2017. New York has had seven games postponed or suspended by rain this season, and it will play a doubleheader Monday in Detroit to make up for two scrubbed April games.
"This seems wild," first-year manager Aaron Boone said. "I've never looked at weather reports and radar so much in my life. I am not getting any better at reading them."
Boone said his team just had to make the best of a wasted Sunday.
"I think we handle it pretty well," he said. "You just have to try and appreciate a little bit of the day off now. Recharge the battery a bit. Stay off the legs, knowing we have a doubleheader Monday."
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