Monday Rain Out

[Frayed Knot]

At least according to the same people who told me this morning that the BoSox were rained out.

[Guest sharpie]

ESPN agrees with them this time.

[TransMonk]

Will be made up on June 29th as a day-night double header.

As if that stretch of schedule between June 5th and the All Star Break wasn't tough enough.

[Guest SI Metman]

The Mets other rainout from Sunday will be made up on Saturday July 28th at 12:10 PM as part of another Day/Night DH. The regularly scheduled game is at 7:10 that evening.

[Frayed Knot]

Y'know, rather than a day/night DH how about Memorial Day?

The Mets & the Nationals are two of the few teams NOT schecduled for a game that day.
The Mets are coming home from a Sunday day game in Florida; the Nats coming off a day game in St. Louis are also headed home.
The Mets have both the previous Monday and the following Monday off so you don't run into that 'no more than 19 days in a row' rule. Washington has the next Monday off.

Sounds like a no-brainer to me. Wonder why they didn't go that route.
Maybe the players wanted the day off instead but players generally hate day-night DHs.

[G-Fafif]

This will be, I'm fairly certain, the first true day-night doubleheader the Mets have ever hosted. The 2000 and 2003 Subway Series monstrosities were, of course, two-stadium affairs. The Mets held a bit of a lag-in-between twinbill in 2005, a four o'clock makeup start and then an 8:05 ESPN game versus the Giants on a Sunday night. That was one admission.

Ticket availability (or perhaps management greed) is worse than I'd imagined.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Damn, June is going to suck for us. 6 games against the Phillies, and series against Arizona, Detroit, MFY, Minnesota, Oakland, and a four-game set against St. Louis. Those are a whole lot of pretty good to great teams, all of whom are playoff contenders.

Trial by fire, I suppose.

[Gwreck]

G-Fafif wrote: This will be, I'm fairly certain, the first true day-night doubleheader the Mets have ever hosted. The 2000 and 2003 Subway Series monstrosities were, of course, two-stadium affairs. The Mets held a bit of a lag-in-between twinbill in 2005, a four o'clock makeup start and then an 8:05 ESPN game versus the Giants on a Sunday night. That was one admission.

Today's official press notes say "we are currently researching the last day-night doubleheader at Shea."

]Ticket availability (or perhaps management greed) is worse than I'd imagined.

I think it may actually be the former. Did you see that in the press announcement regarding the Jackie Robinson ceremony that they had already sold 40,000 tickets to that game (before the ceremonies were rescheduled to that date)?

40,000 advance sales for a game in April? Not bad.