In the aftermath of wildfires that hit across Canada, a string of U.S. professional sports games have been canceled or postponed.스포츠토토
The US Professional Baseball Major League (MLB) Secretariat announced on the 8th (Korean time) that the Philadelphia Phillies and Detroit Tigers game, which was scheduled to be held at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, will be played at Yankee Stadium in New York, USA, due to deteriorating air quality due to forest fires in Canada on the 8th (Korean time). The scheduled game between the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox has been postponed.
The Yankees-White Sox match was postponed to a double header on the 9th, and the Philadelphia-Detroit match was postponed to the rest day on the 9th.
MLB isn’t the only game canceled due to deteriorating air quality caused by wildfires.
The U.S. women’s professional basketball game between Orlando Pride and Gotham FC, which was scheduled to be held in New Jersey, and the U.S. women’s professional basketball game between Minnesota Lynx and New York Liberty, which was scheduled to be played in Brooklyn, New York, was also canceled.
Recently, cities in the eastern part of the United States, such as New York and Philadelphia, have suffered very poor air quality in the aftermath of the Canadian wildfires.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued air quality alerts to more than 100 million residents.