Next week's New York Yankees-Tampa Bay Rays series will be played at Citi Field in Queens _ home of the Mets _ because of Hurricane Irma.
The series was scheduled to be played at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, Monday through Wednesday.
The Mets are on the road next week with stops in Chicago and Atlanta, making Citi Field available to host the Yankees-Rays series.
NYCFC has a game at Yankees Stadium late this afternoon, and it takes 72 hours to resod the field for baseball. In addition, the Stadium will host a food convention and trade show Tuesday and Wednesday.
"It will be a little odd playing at a neutral site where it's not anybody's home field," Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner said. "But obviously they're games that we have to play and the season doesn't wait around for anybody, so we have to figure out a way to play them."
The Rays will be the home team for all three games. The Monday and Tuesday games will start at 7:10 p.m. EDT. Wednesday's game will begin at 1:10 p.m.
