Total solar eclipse delays Yankees-Marlins series opener (4/8/2024): Time, channel, how to watch

The New York Yankees are set to host the Miami Marlins to start a three-game series on Monday, April 8 (4/8/2024) at Yankee Stadium in New York City. But the start time for the game has been pushed back by four hours due to the total solar eclipse set to cast a shadow over the region on Monday afternoon.

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Here’s what you need to know:

What: MLB Regular Season game

Who: Marlins @ Yankees

When: Monday, Apr. 8, 2024

Time: 6:05 p.m. EDT

Where: Yankee Stadium, New York City, New York

TV: YES Network, Bally Sports Florida, MLB Network (out of market)

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The game was originally slated for 2:05 p.m., but with the 2024 total solar eclipse set to cast a shadow over New York City beginning at 2:10 p.m. ET, the Yankees and MLB decided to push the game back due to “challenges of playing through Monday’s solar eclipse, including potential in-game delays.” The team still plans to give away promotional solar eclipse t-shirts to the first 15,000 fans that day.

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The Yankees are 8-2 to start the season, sharing the top record in the MLB with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and leading the AL East. They beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 on Sunday, hammering Bowden Francis with a five-run third inning in which Giancarlo Stanton smashed a 417-foot Grand Slam, and his second home run in as many days.

The Yankees will look to stay in the win column against the league-worst Marlins (1-9), who finally earned their first win of the season after 10 games when they beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10-3 on Sunday.

Here’s the full series schedule:

• Mon., Apr. 8: MIA @ NYY, 6:05 p.m. on YES, Bally Sports, MLBN (out of market) (STREAM)
• Tue., Apr. 9: MIA @ NYY, 7:05 p.m. on YES, Bally Sports (STREAM)
• Wed., Apr. 10: MIA @ NYY, 7:05 p.m. on Prime Video

Yankees gear, including new hats for the 2024 season, can be found on Fanatics.com.

Can I bet on the game?

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The Yankees are -155 to win on Monday, according to DraftKings.

Here’s a recent AP Yankees story:

NEW YORK (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton hit a loud tiebreaking grand slam in the third inning, and the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 on Sunday for their eighth win in 10 games to start the season.

Stanton gave the Yankees a 5-1 lead with a 417-foot drive off Bowden Francis (0-2) that clanked against the facing of an advertisement below the second deck in left field.

Stanton fell behind 0-2 in the count before turning on a 2-2 inside fastball and driving the ball 110.6 mph for his 11th career slam, his first since September 2022. He took a couple steps as he watched the ball, then flipped his bat.

“It’s just a good spot and you know it off the bat,” Stanton said.

Stanton also homered Saturday in a three-hit game that followed a 3-for-24 start. He homered in consecutive games for the first time since going deep in three straight games last Aug. 2-4.

“It was a jolt,” manager Aaron Boone said. “One of those you know right away, and I know I reacted to it. Just a really good at-bat and obviously an inning that we built, and guys just had really good at-bats in front of him to set that situation up.”

The Yankees have won their first three series and are off to their best 10-game start since 2020. New York has won its first three series in consecutive seasons for the first time since the 162-game schedule began in 1961.

“We’ve been able to win games in a lot of different ways,” Boone said.

Anthony Volpe had three singles and stole two bases in the eighth before scoring on a base hit by Oswaldo Cabrera. Juan Soto added a sacrifice fly in the eighth.

New York starter Luis Gil walked Alejandro Kirk with the bases loaded in the third and Anthony Rizzo preceded Stanton’s drive with a tying walk.

Fans in the crowd of 40,569 chanted derisively at plate umpire Ángel Hernández over some of his ball-strike calls. Gil was upset with the bases-loaded walk to Bo Bichette in the third and Gleyber Torres with a called third strike in the first after Francis appeared to step off.

“That he got back, had time and completed his move,” Boone said. “Definitely one of those that I want to look into and get the exact explanation of what is allowed there.”

Jake Cousins (1-0) got his first Yankees win and first major league victory since 2022, giving up Bichette’s RBI double in the fifth, a run charged to Gil, and an unearned run in the sixth after third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera misplayed George Springer’s grounder for an error.

Francis gave up five runs in three innings.

“The walks hurt, especially against that kind of lineup,” Toronto manager John Schneider said. “So he just lost the zone and a middle-middle two-strike pitch to Stanton.”

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