MLB Mulling Postponement Of White Sox vs. Yankees Game Due To Wildfire Smoke

Yankees and White Sox followers may need to attend one other day to look at their groups play … TMZ Sports has confirmed the MLB is contemplating suspending Wednesday’s recreation on account of smoke coming from ongoing wildfires in Canada.

A spokesperson for the league tells us … the competition between the 2 squads continues to be on for now, but when the situations worsen or turn into too harmful for the gamers and followers, they’ll postpone the sport.

The rep additionally instructed us the league is speaking with well being and climate specialists … and can decide based mostly on their suggestions.

As you already know, smoky situations from the Canadian fires have dramatically affected the air high quality in NYC (and the Northeast), prompting the National Weather Service to warn residents that the air high quality is “unhealthy.”

In reality, video shot from inside Yankee Stadium earlier Wednesday exhibits the venue and the sky above it had been hardly recognizable.

An MLB postponement on account of air high quality isn’t unprecedented … again in Sept. 2020, the Mariners vs. Giants recreation in Seattle was moved after wildfire smoke had significantly impacted the Pacific Northwest.