The Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees are playing a rain makeup game on Monday night at Yankee Stadium, as Felix Hernandez gets back his skipped start in the matchup that starts at 7:05 pm ET and is streaming live from the MLB.com website as NY tries to get things back on track this season and the M's and Robinson Cano come back one more time to the Bronx.
Cano surely will get booed again, because no Yankees player ever took the money in the history of baseball, so the fans aren't being hypocrites or anything like that, while King Felix will try and continue his march to a Cy Young when he faces off against David Phelps in the matchup. Hernandez previously was set to start in the game at Yankee Stadium that was rained out last month and now he will be back on the mound for the game as he tries to win a fifth straight start. Hernandez has had a fantastic season and he now is 7-1 with a 2.57 ERA and he will try and win against Phelps, who is in the rotation while Michael Pineda, CC Sabathia and Ivan Nova are out.
The Mariners are right at .500 at 28-28 while the Yankees are three games over and both teams have had up and down stretches this season and the M's are looking for their first winning season in a decade. The Mariners ended up sweeping the Yankees in Cano's two game return to the Bronx and now he will come back again after missing his first slate of games for the Mariners with an illness and he should be back for this game after missing the last four and was hitting .409 over the last 17 games before getting hurt and while the home runs have not been coming yet, Cano is bringing in RBIs and also hitting the lights out and is one of the leaders in the league.
The Mariners just had their longest homestand of the season and now they look to hit the road for seven games and they will have the chance to get back over .500 for the first time since mid-May. The Mariners come into the game after Roenis Elias had a complete game shutout against the Detroit Tigers and that was a great performance from the Cuban star and he previously had a great game in New York and is looking like the real deal. The Mariners rotation will get a boost when James Paxton and Taijuan Walker join and they will have Erasmo Ramirez starting against the Braves on Tuesday and he has mostly been terrible this season.
The Yankees lost two of three to the Twins this weekend and are second in the AL East behind the Toronto Blue Jays. The Mariners are ranked 17th in runs this season and they are fourth in the AL West and hanging around there and in the wild card startings at 28-28 on the year in the first season with Cano in the fold and he surely will get booed again and it rings of jealousy, because all Yankee fans love Brian roberts over Cano right?