Cross your fingers, boys and girls

Posted Sep 12, 2008 by Marc Lancaster

Updated Sep 12, 2008 at 03:15 PM

NEW YORK—Well, the tarp is on the field here at Yankee Stadium and we’ve been under a light but steady rain for a while now.

The forecast doesn’t look real good and neither does the radar. If they end up calling it, I imagine we’d be looking at a split doubleheader tomorrow. Everything’s sold out for the final 10 games at the stadium (you’ve heard, haven’t you?) and no one wants to come back and play on the 29th or something silly like that.

I usually end up wrong when I worry about a rainout, but stay tuned.

In other news, Joel Guzman has cleared waivers and accepted an outright assignment to Durham.

And finally, in case you haven’t heard, Elijah Dukes finally had a Moment for the Nats the other night. The eminent Thomas Boswell discusses.

UPDATING with lineups:

Rays
Iwamura 2B
Zobrist SS
Pena 1B
Floyd DH
Aybar 3B
Hinske LF
Navarro C
Gross RF
Perez CF
Garza P

Yankees
Damon CF
Jeter SS
Abreu RF
A. Rodriguez 3B
Giambi 1B
Nady LF
Matsui DH
Cano 2B
Molina C
Ponson P