The Yankees had their 11-game winning streak snapped by the Blue Jays on Wednesday night in Toronto, then returned home to get further cooled off by the rain. 

Now they’ll have to get back on track amid a brutal schedule. 

After a game against the Rangers was washed out for a second-straight day Saturday, the Yankees will have to play 23 games over the course of 22 days, beginning with a doubleheader Sunday at Yankee Stadium. 

The game postponed Saturday will be made up at 1:05 p.m. on Monday, which was supposed to be a day off for both teams. But that was wiped out because this is the Rangers’ only trip to The Bronx this season. 

Before their next day off, on May 30, the Yankees’ pitching depth will be put to the test after a strong start to the season. That group entered Saturday with a 2.60 ERA, the second-best mark in MLB. 

Gerrit Cole, who was initially scheduled to start Friday, will get the ball for Game 1 on Sunday with Jordan Montgomery starting Game 2. Luis Severino had been in line to follow Cole in the rotation, but the Yankees are pushing him back to allow the left-handed Montgomery to start on five days’ rest against a Rangers lineup that has five left-handed regulars. 

Severino, who had thrown a total of 18 innings over the last three seasons because of injuries including Tommy John surgery, has posted a 3.75 ERA across his first five starts (24 innings) of the season. The Yankees will be mindful of his workload this season. 

Burning two regular starters on Sunday means the Yankees will need another starter, or use a bullpen game, by Thursday at the latest. Throwing a bullpen game in the midst of this busy stretch would be a difficult ask with no off days in sight. 

The Yankees could have opted to call up a pitcher from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to start the second game of Sunday’s doubleheader as the 27th man, but tipped their hand otherwise on Saturday. Clarke Schmidt would have been the top candidate, but instead he made his first start of the season with SWB on Saturday. The right-hander had pitched well out of the Yankees bullpen (1.08 ERA over 8 ¹/₃ innings) before being optioned last Sunday night ahead of Monday’s roster cutdown. He is now being stretched out as a starter again. 

A struggling Deivi Garcia also started Saturday in the RailRiders’ doubleheader, while JP Sears and Luis Gil both pitched on Thursday, taking them out of the picture as call-up candidates for Sunday. But each of those arms, including Schmidt, could potentially be options to start for the Yankees by Thursday. 

Either way, the Yankees will be leaning on their pitching staff to deliver more of the same during the upcoming stretch, with starters pitching deeper into games taking on added importance. Through the first month of their schedule, with extra arms in their bullpen, the busiest stretch the Yankees had was playing 10 straight days to open the season. 

Before the rain threw a wrench in their weekend series, the most games the Yankees were scheduled to play without a day off this season was 20 straight in mid-June to early-July. 

Ben Rortvedt began a rehab assignment on Saturday with Single-A Tampa. The catcher had been dealing with a strained oblique since the Yankees acquired him from the Twins (along with Josh Donaldson and Isiah Kiner-Falefa) during spring training. His prolonged absence led to the Yankees trading for Jose Trevino, who has formed a catching tandem with Kyle Higashioka through the first month of the season. 

Rortvedt has minor league options remaining, meaning once he is healthy, the Yankees could send him to Triple-A.