{"id":885875,"date":"2026-06-22T23:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/885875\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:11:14","slug":"chicago-cubs-series-opener-against-new-york-mets-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/885875\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs’ series opener against New York Mets postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 Heavy rain and thunderstorms have caused the Chicago Cubs\u2019 series opener on Monday against the Mets at Citi Field to be postponed.<\/p>\n

The game will be made up as part of a split doubleheader on Wednesday, scheduled to start at 12:10 p.m. and 6:10 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n

Steady rain throughout the afternoon and into the evening created uncertainty whether the game could be played. The forecast showed a potential window between 6-8 p.m. CT, but more thunderstorms were on track to arrive at night with rain through Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

The Cubs, coming off Sunday\u2019s rainout at home<\/a> versus the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>, hoped to play Monday to avoid playing a doubleheader this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe forecast is kind of dicey tonight, so we\u2019ll just see what happens,\u201d manager Craig Counsell said Monday afternoon. \u201cBecause we (Sunday\u2019s) rainout didn\u2019t put a doubleheader on the schedule, today\u2019s rainout puts a doubleheader on the schedule, I think that\u2019s what\u2019s pretty different about it just from our perspective, and doubleheaders create pitching challenges, so we hope we can play. If the weather says no, then we\u2019ll figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seiya Suzuki had been in the lineup again at the designated hitter spot. The Cubs had been eying getting him back in right field after dealing with knee soreness<\/a> since June 13 in San Francisco. Instead, Counsell opted for Suzuki as the DH and Matt Shaw in right field.<\/p>\n

\u201cMatt was going to play today, so I just thought, let\u2019s give Seiya another day at DH,\u201d Counsell said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see tomorrow. It\u2019s been a little slower than I would have liked. Obviously, he\u2019s been in there every day, so he\u2019s feeling good enough to do that, but he\u2019s been a little slower being confident, running around and sliding in the outfield than initially expected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Heavy rain and thunderstorms have caused the Chicago Cubs\u2019 series opener on Monday against the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":885876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1271,9305,1816,91950,5386,1818,1822,1305,165681,359499],"class_list":["post-885875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-citi-field","tag-craig-counsell","tag-doubleheader","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-new-york-mets","tag-postponed","tag-rainout"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116796292209531085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}