If you're a New
York Yankees fan eager for the return of Brett Gardner to the lineup, you'll have
to wait perhaps a day longer for the left fielder to test his injured right
elbow. Gardner's scheduled rehab game with Tripe-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre, know
this year as the Empire State Yankees, was rained out last night. The team is
scheduled to play a double header today against Columbus in Rochester.
(Confused yet?) Gardner has been out of the New York lineup since April 18 with
a strained right elbow.
Rochester is
far away from The Rainout Blog headquarters, but the trusty Weather.com tells
me it's raining right now in Rochester, just as it is at TRoB HQ. However, the
forecast calls for rain to cease a few hours before the 5:05 first pitch and
for a 30 percent chance of rain the rest of the night.
The image at right was posted Monday on the Empire State Yankees Facebook page.
