During manager Joe Girardi’s postseason playing career as a Yankee, he doesn’t recall The Bronx ever featuring stormy weather. Yesterday’s cold, rainy day in New York was foreign territory.
“Every year that I had a chance to play in the playoffs here, the weather was great,” Girardi said yesterday. “So I don’t remember having a day like this.”
According to Girardi, the brutal weather conditions expected this weekend prompted general manager Brian Cashman and Angels GM Tony Reagins to speak to Major League Baseball about possible contingency plans should there be a rainout tonight.
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Today’s forecast, according to weather.com, calls for a 90 percent chance of precipitation from 2 p.m. this afternoon straight through to well after midnight. The first pitch is scheduled for 7:57 p.m. If Game 2 gets rained out, it presumably would be made up on tomorrow’s day off, though the forecast doesn’t clear until tomorrow night.
“It’s something that’ll be ongoing as far as contingencies,” Reagins said about what would happen if there’s a rainout. “But it hasn’t been determined as of yet.”
Said Cashman, “MLB will tell us what we’re doing and we’ll just do it.”
If there is a rainout, that dramatically could affect the Yankees rotation plans, since it means A.J. Burnett would either have to pitch Game 5 on three days’ rest, or Chad Gaudin has to start that game.
Cashman wasn’t making any excuses.
“We’ve got 25 guys that are professional, that it’s their job to find a way to win this series,” he told The Post. “And we’ll play when they tell us to play.”
Another issue is the fact that Monday’s Game 3 in Anaheim is scheduled for 4:13 Eastern. But if Game 2 needs to be played tomorrow instead of tonight, then it could be a challenge to play tomorrow, fly cross-country and play Monday afternoon.
“It would be hard to play Sunday night and a day game Monday,” Girardi said.
mark.hale@nypost.com
— Additional reporting by George A. King III