A not-quite beautiful day for baseball

Update, 4:13 The tarp is off and the game seems to be definitely be on. The Rays lineup looks a lot like it was going to Thursday, with Willy Aybar off and Eric Hinske making his first start at third since July 22, 2006, with Toronto. That puts Jonny Gomes - likely to be subject of Yankees' fans ire - in rightfield, right in front of the bleacher creatures.

Also, Thursday's rained out game in Baltimore will be made up on Sept. 23 at 5:05 p.m. as what will be part of a twilight doubleheader.

The full Rays lineup:
Iwamura, 2b
Crawford, lf
Pena, 1b
Upton, cf
Floyd, dh
Gomes, rf
Hinske, 3b
Navarro, c
Bartlett, ss
Andy Sonnanstine makes the start.

As dire as the forecast was the last two days, it sounded like Yankee Stadium would be floating by now. But it's a little after 3 and - thought the tarp was just put back on the infield - the sense is that that there will be baseball tonight, though perhaps with a few showers along the way.
As recently as this morning, the forecast was for it to start raining about noon and keep going until mid-day Saturday. But so far, not a drop.
That said, Andy Sonnanstine is scheduled to start for the Rays against Ian Kennedy, one of the Yankees' young guns.

Comments

[Bodog]

Well, you got your wish Raysfan....The boys from 16th St. came thru, what a win! Riggans made a believer out of me.....Looks like he'll get some days behind the plate. Navarro will be out for several days. Sonny pitched very well....Damn! Hope Jackson can give a good 5 - 6 inning tomorrow. 1:00 start. GO RAYS!

Update:
Navarro on 15 day DL

[raysfan]

cmon, NO rain. i want to see them play.