A wet forecast for Saturday night forced the Yankees into a single-admission doubleheader that day.
The regularly scheduled game against the Blue Jays will start at 1:05 p.m. and the makeup tilt which was washed out Thursday night will start 30 minutes after the first one ends.
The decision to not play a split-gate twinbill will cost the Yankees financially, but they couldn’t run the risk of the second game, which likely would have started at 7:05 pm, being rained out.
Because Sunday is a getaway day for both teams a doubleheader can’t be played.
Because the Yankees average 40,008 tickets sold at home through 69 games, they are taking a considerable hit at the gate.
Paid tickets for Thursday’s night rainout can be exchanged for any regular-season game at Yankee Stadium through the end of the 2016 season subject to availability. Thursday night’s Babe Ruth Bobblehead giveaway will be rescheduled in 2016.
The Yankees played single-admission doubleheaders at Yankee Stadium in each of the past two seasons — May 18, 2014 and May 13, 2013.