A slight mist hung in the air as Brett and Crystal Sherman, a married couple from Florida who had flown into town for Opening Day at Yankee Stadium, climbed the stairs at the no. 4 subway station at 86th Street after yesterday’s game was canceled.

“The Marlins play when it drizzles,” Mrs. Sherman, a lifetime Yankees fan, said of her local baseball team, sounding more than a bit perturbed. “So do the Red Sox,” Mr. Sherman said with a devilish smile.

The Shermans had traveled from Boca Raton to be a part of what was slated to be the final Opening Day ever played at the House Ruth Built, but the 1:05 p.m. game was canceled due to fear of rain. It was rescheduled for tonight at 7:05 p.m.

“We’d been planning go to the game for three months, but we can’t stay for the makeup. We have to make our flight,” Mr. Sherman said.

Even while acknowledging that rain delays and weather cancellations are an inherent part of the nation’s pastime, a number of Yankees fans with tickets for the game termed brash the team’s decision to pull the plug on the game against the Toronto Blue Jays an hour and a half into a rain delay. Christopher Ambrosia, a police officer from Jersey City who said he paid $100 for $12 bleacher seats, was livid about the cancellation, saying he had traded a shift to attend Opening Day and likely wouldn’t be able to make it for the game tonight. He said the handsomely compensated athletes should play in a light drizzle.

“It barely rained the entire time we were there,” Mr. Ambrosia said. “I’d work at the foot of a volcano for $20 million a year.”

The team, which will begin playing in a new stadium next year, did not return an e-mail message seeking comment.

Although inclement weather engulfed a majority of the Atlantic seaboard and the Midwest yesterday, most Opening Day games were played. The Baltimore Orioles managed to get their first game in against the Tampa Bay Rays even tough their stadium, Camden Yards, appeared to stand in the path of the same storm that passed over the Bronx.

A spokeswoman for Major League Baseball would not comment on the cancellation.

Scott Marwin, an orthopedic surgeon who said he canceled a surgical procedure to attend the game, was less upset than most about the decision. He said there was a discussion in the middle of the diamond that included the Yankees general manager, Brian Cashman, the team’s manager, Joe Girardi, and the Blue Jays manager, John Gibbons, before an announcement came over the loudspeaker that the game would be canceled due to an ominous forecast from the National Weather Service.

For those ticket holders who can’t attend the makeup game, there may be a profit to be made, the head of corporate communications for StubHub.com, Sean Pate, said. The market for Opening Day tickets had been flooded leading up to yesterday’s game, dropping ticket prices, he said. However, ticket prices will likely be driven up for the makeup game because fewer will be available and the game is at night, he said.