Yankees' game vs. Blue Jays rained out, to be made up with single-admission doubleheader

Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News on Apr 26, 2025

Published in Baseball

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NEW YORK — Rain prevented Aaron Judge from spending his birthday at the ballpark.

Saturday afternoon’s game between the Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays in the Bronx was postponed due to inclement weather in the forecast and will now be made up as part of a single-admission doubleheader on Sunday.

The makeup game is expected to start 30 minutes after Sunday’s originally scheduled game, which is still set to begin at 1:35 p.m. EDT.

Tickets for Saturday’s game will not be valid for Sunday’s doubleheader, the Yankees said. Instead, tickets for Saturday’s game can be exchanged — online only — for a similar regular-season game.

Max Fried (4-0, 1.42 ERA) is now scheduled to start the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader for the Yankees, while Kevin Gausman (2-2, 3.16 ERA) will pitch for Toronto. That matchup had been set for Saturday.

The second game will feature the Yankees’ Clarke Schmidt (0-1, 7.45 ERA) against the Blue Jays’ Chris Bassitt (2-1, 1.88 ERA), which was Sunday’s original matchup.

Judge turned 33 on Saturday. He has batted .333 with two home runs in six games on his birthday.

The reigning American League MVP entered Saturday leading MLB hitters with a .408 average, a .508 on-base percentage, a .714 slugging percentage and a 1.222 OPS.

The Yankees lost Friday night’s series opener against the Blue Jays, 4-2, after closer Devin Williams blew his first save and fell to 0-2 with a 11.25 ERA this season.

This is the first series of the year between the AL East rivals.

Lo latest

Jonathan Loáisiga took a significant step in his rehab on Saturday.

The right-handed reliever hurled a scoreless inning for the Single-A Tampa Tarpons in his first rehab appearance since undergoing elbow surgery in April of 2024.

Loáisiga retired all three batters he faced against the Dunedin Blue Jays and recorded a strikeout. He threw eight of his 10 pitches for strikes.

He has been targeting a return to the Yankees by late May or early June.

Loáisiga boasts a 3.44 ERA over seven MLB seasons, all with the Yankees, and re-signed with them this winter on a one-year contract with a team option for 2026.

Cousins comeback

Jake Cousins hopes to be back in the Yankees’ bullpen by early-to-mid June.

The right-handed reliever (right elbow flexor strain) is about two weeks away from throwing a live bullpen session, he told the Daily News’ Gary Phillips.

Cousins, 30, believes he will need to throw a few live BPs before he advances to rehab games.

“Things feel pretty good, so just monitoring some normal soreness and adding volume,” Cousins said Friday before a bullpen session, which was set to mark his fifth or sixth time throwing from the mound.

Cousins came into spring training with a forearm strain, then began the season on the 60-day injured list with the flexor strain.

He said he does not know how many rehab starts he will require before he returns to the active roster but likened the work he needs to do to “having a spring training.”

Cousins pitched to a 2.37 ERA and 53 strikeouts over 38 innings with the Yankees last year.