Yankees Game Postponed Because of Smoke From Wildfires
With air quality in the Bronx registering at “hazardous” levels because of smoke from wildfires in Canada, Major League Baseball postponed a game between the Yankees and the Chicago White Sox, which had been scheduled for 7:05 p.m. on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium.
The game is scheduled to be made up on Thursday as the first game of a single-admission doubleheader, the Yankees said. That could change if the air quality continues to be unhealthy. Manager Aaron Boone said he had been told that conditions were expected to improve, but “obviously we’ll get here and see.”
A game between the Phillies and the Detroit Tigers in Philadelphia was also postponed on Wednesday, as were a W.N.B.A. game between the Minnesota Lynx and the Liberty in Brooklyn and a National Women’s Soccer League contest between the Orlando Pride and Gotham F.C. in Harrison, N.J.
The decision to postpone the M.L.B. games — made at the league level with input from the teams, the players’ union and weather experts — came at 4:30 p.m. Eastern, with the air quality in the Bronx registering at 413 on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality Index, according to AirNow. Philadelphia’s A.Q.I. was at 233.
Source: The New York Times
