Rainy Monday in Florida leads to all but one Grapefruit League spring training game being canceled

A rainy day in Florida resulted in all but one Grapefruit League game being canceled Monday, including the Detroit Tigers having a rainout at their spring training home for the first time since 2016.

The only one of the seven scheduled spring games in Florida that was played Monday was in Jupiter, where St. Louis won 7-4 at home against the New York Mets.

A New York Yankees squad traveled to Fort Myers for a game against Boston that was preemptively altered in hopes of being played later in the afternoon. But that game was canceled only minutes after the revised start time because of the forecast for an extended period of sustained rain that was expected throughout the evening.

The Yankees stayed in Fort Myers, where they are scheduled to play the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday.

Because of the forecast for rain Monday that proved accurate, two schedule changes were announced Sunday. The first pitch for the Yankees-Red Sox game and Atlanta's game against Baltimore in Sarasota had both been pushed back three hours to 4:05 p.m. EST.

The Orioles ended up announcing the cancellation of their game against Atlanta on Monday around 1:05 p.m., which had been the game’s original start time.

Detroit was supposed to play Toronto in Lakeland, but the game was called off several hours before the scheduled first pitch at 1:05 p.m.

Other games canceled Monday because of inclement weather were Miami and Houston in West Palm Beach; Pittsburgh against Philadelphia in Clearwater; and Minnesota against Tampa Bay in Port Charlotte.

None of the canceled games will be made up.

Weather issues during spring training are a reminder to the Tampa Bay Rays of what they may have to deal with when playing their regular-season home games outside this year.

The Rays will play their games this season at Tampa’s Steinbrenner Field, the spring training base of the Yankees. Hurricane Milton ripped the roof off St. Petersburg’s Tropicana Field on Oct. 9, leaving the Rays’ usual home stadium unusable for at least 2025.

Steinbrenner Field, which has about 11,000 seats, is exposed to weather, unlike the Trop. Florida summers are known for thunderstorms in the afternoon and early evening, and that even happens sometimes during spring training.

Major League Baseball in November switched a pair of series involving the Rays in the first two months of the season in an attempt to avoid summer rain at their temporary home.

Tampa Bay is scheduled to play 19 of its first 22 games at home and 37 of 54 through May 28, then 64 of its last 108 games on the road. The Rays are home for eight games each in July and August, when weeknight games will start later in an effort to avoid potential weather issues.

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St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Willson Contreras talks with teammates in the dugout during the fourth inning of a spring training baseball game against the New York Mets Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, in Jupiter, Fla. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Houston Astros center fielder Pedro Leon catches a fly ball by New York Mets' Jose Azocar to end the third inning of a spring training baseball game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Port St. Lucie, Fla. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. throws the ball to first base during spring training baseball workouts in Dunedin Fla., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

A worker holds an umbrella and walks around the empty concourse after a spring training baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies was canceled due to weather, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, in Clearwater, Fla. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh, local officials said Sunday.

A young woman died overnight in a hospital intensive care unit after debris from a drone fell on a house during the attack on Saturday, regional Gov. Alexander Gusev said on Telegram.

Three other people were wounded and more than 10 apartment buildings, private houses and a high school were damaged, he said, adding that air defenses shot down 17 drones over Voronezh. The city is home to just over 1 million people and lies some 250 kilometers (155 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

The attack came the day after Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles overnight into Friday, killing at least four people in the capital Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.

For only the second time in the nearly four-year war, Russia used a powerful new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in a clear warning to Kyiv and NATO.

The intense barrage and the launch of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile followed reports of major progress in talks between Ukraine and its allies on how to defend the country from further aggression by Moscow if a U.S.-led peace deal is struck.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday in his nightly address that Ukrainian negotiators “continue to communicate with the American side.”

Chief negotiator Rustem Umerov was in contact with U.S. partners Saturday, he said.

Separately, Ukraine’s General Staff said Russia targeted Ukraine with 154 drones overnight into Sunday and 125 were shot down.

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This photo provided by the Ukrainian Security Service on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, shows a fragment believed to be a part of a Russian Oreshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile that hit the Lviv region. (Ukrainian Security Service via AP)

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, listens to British Defense Secretary John Healey during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)