NEW YORK — Saturday night’s Dodgers-Yankees game was postponed because of rain, setting up a split doubleheader Sunday.
Sunday’s first game is scheduled to begin at 12:35 p.m. Eastern (9:35 a.m. Pacific). The series finale is set for Sunday at 7:20 p.m. Eastern (4:20 p.m. Pacific).
The Dodgers did not immediately announce if the rainout would alter their pitching plan. Initially, Emmet Sheehan was scheduled to start Saturday and Yoshinobu Yamamoto on Sunday.
The team will also be allowed to call up an extra player for Sunday because of the doubleheader.
It will be the Dodgers’ first time playing a doubleheader since May 2024, when they got rained out during a visit to the Mets.
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Sunday’s first game will be televised on SportsNet LA after originally being slated for Fox’s national broadcast Saturday night. Sunday night’s game will remain on NBC/Peacock.
Weather always figured to loom large during this current East Coast road trip the Dodgers are on — be it rainy forecasts, muggy summer heat or even poor air quality from Canadian wildfire smoke that cleared up just in time for Friday’s series opener at Yankee Stadium.
After Sunday night’s game, they head to Philadelphia for three games against the Phillies. On Thursday, they will go to Washington for a White House visit to celebrate their 2025 World Series. Next weekend, they wrap the nine-game swing with a series against the Mets.
Now, they can only hope Saturday’s rainout is the only time their schedule is impacted.
