Thanks to Friday’s postponement due to severe weather in the Kansas City area, the Royals and Yankees are scheduled to play a day/night doubleheader on Saturday.
If both games are played on Saturday (more rain is in the forecast), it’ll match the number of games the Royals have played in the previous five games combined. Both of those games came in Wednesday’s doubleheader in St. Louis. Monday and Thursday were scheduled off days, and Tuesday and Friday were postponed.
The Wednesday/Saturday doubleheaders would mark the first time Kansas City has played in back-to-back doubleheaders since Aug. 13–14, 1983 at Fenway park, when they split both days vs.