No word yet on the fate of tonight’s game, but the rain has been much lighter in the city today and things appear to be drying up a tad on the streets. Having postponed yesterday’s contest and with double headers scheduled in both of their remaining series with the Sox (five games in four days in Fenway in August and four games in three days in the Bronx in September), you know the Yankees want to get this one in. If so, we’ll see the matchup we were supposed to get last night with Jaret Wright taking on Curt Schilling.

A mismatch on paper given that the Yanks are throwing their fifth starter against Boston’s ace, I have an odd feeling that the Yankees have a decen shot tonight. Part of that is that Jaret Wright has impressed of late, at least by fifth starter standards. His aggregate line over his last six starts is now:

33 2/3 IP, 36 H, 13 R (12 ER), 2 HR, 8 BB, 17 K, 1.31 WHIP, 3.21 ERA, 3-1

That’s plenty solid given the Yankees major league best offense. Jaret’s remaining bugaboo is length. He’s finished the sixth inning in just half of those starts and hasn’t answered the bell for the seventh in any of them. That seems unlikely to change against the Red Sox. Then again, Wright’s shortest outing in those six turns was five full and he left that game due not to poor performance (he had kept the Red Sox scoreless on 73 pitches), but because of a tweaked groin.

That was the only time Wright has faced the Sox thus far this year. Schilling, meanwhile, has faced the Yankees in two of his last five turns with markedly different results. Most significant about Schilling is that he hasn’t walked a single batter in his last four starts, which is a mighty powerful way to counter the Yankees historic on-base pace. That said, save for his last outing against the Yankees in Fenway, he hasn’t been particularly efficient in any of those outings, so while they might not get to ball four, there’s little reason for the Yankees not to continue to work the count tonight.