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Yankees Avoid Scheduling Conflict With ESPN, Won’t Have To Play 3 July Games In 24-Hour Span

The New York Yankees won’t have to play three games in a 24-hour span next month, after avoiding a scheduling conflict with ESPN on Tuesday.

Yankees Have One Of Three July Games Rescheduled

The Bombers had voiced frustration with ESPN’ recent attempts to reschedule their games, many of which have been postponed for weather-related reasons.

On Tuesday, MLB said the Yanks’ scheduled game against the Blue Jays in Toronto on Sunday, July 8 will be moved to 1:07 p.m. EST from its original 8 p.m. EST start time.

Aaron Boone‘s team will then play a doubleheader in Baltimore on July 9. The Sunday night game on ESPN on July 8 will now be a Angels-Dodgers game in Anaheim.

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On Sunday, Boone told ESPN that such a schedule is “just not good for the product on the field, for the safety of our guys to be having to go night game then fly into a doubleheader. That’s ridiculous, and anyone that would argue with that is not being truthful.”

Thus far this season, the Yankees have had seven contests postponed or suspended due to rain. The team played a day-night doubleheader in Detroit on Monday to make up one of those games.

 

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