YANKS, RAYS TO PLAY AT CITI FIELD
Major League Baseball announced that the upcoming Rays-Yankees series has been moved from Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg to Citi Field, home of the Mets, as Hurricane Irma bears down on Florida.
The games will be played on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday as originally scheduled.
Two weeks ago the Rays hosted a three-game series between the Astros and Rangers after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston.
“After much consideration, our games against the Yankees will be moved to Citi Field as Hurricane Irma approaches Florida,” said Rays President Brian Auld. “We are grateful to the Mets for opening their doors to us. We are most concerned with the safety of our fans, our families, friends and neighbors.”
The Mets are off on Monday and then begin a series at Wrigley Field against the Cubs on Tuesday.
Saturday’s games
Baltimore (Tillman 1-7) at Cleveland (Tomlin 8-9), 1:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Severino 12-6) at Texas (Griffin 6-5), 1:05 p.m.
Houston (Morton 11-6) at Oakland (Mengden 0-1), 4:05 p.m.
Detroit (Sanchez 3-3) at Toronto (Anderson 2-3), 4:07 p.m.
San Francisco (Samardzija 9-12) at Chicago White Sox (Shields 2-6), 7:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (Andriese 5-2) at Boston (Sale 15-7), 7:10 p.m. Minnesota (Berrios 12-7) at Kansas City (Junis 7-2), 7:15 p.m.
Houston (Peacock 10-2) at Oakland (Gossett 3-8), 7:35 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Heaney 1-1) at Seattle (Albers 3-1), 9:10 p.m. Washington Miami Atlanta New York Philadelphia Chicago St. Louis Milwaukee Pittsburgh Cincinnati Los Angeles Arizona Colorado San Diego San Francisco
Thursday’s games
Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh 2 Washington 4, Philadelphia 3 N.Y. Mets 7, Cincinnati 2 Atlanta 6, Miami 5
San Diego 3, St. Louis 0 Colorado 9, L.A. Dodgers 1
Friday’s games
Philadelphia at Washington Cincinnati at N.Y. Mets.
Miami at Atlanta Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs
San Francisco at Chicago White Sox Pittsburgh at St. Louis
San Diego at Arizona Colorado at L.A. Dodgers
Saturday’s games
Milwaukee (Anderson 8-3) at Chicago Cubs (Montgomery 5-7), 4:05 p.m. Philadelphia (Leiter Jr. 2-5) at Washington (Jackson 5-4), 7:05 p.m. Cincinnati (Bailey 4-7) at N.Y. Mets (Flexen 3-4), 7:10 p.m.
Miami (Conley 6-7) at Atlanta (Fried 1-0), 7:10 p.m.
San Francisco (Samardzija 9-12) at Chicago White Sox (Shields 2-6), 7:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Kuhl 7-10) at St. Louis (Martinez 11-10), 7:15 p.m.
San Diego (Chacin 12-10) at Arizona (Godley 7-7), 8:10 p.m.
Colorado (Bettis 0-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Wood 14-2), 9:10 p.m.