Tonight's Blue Jays-Orioles game has been postponed due to ongoing inclement weather.

Toronto and Baltimore will instead play a doubleheader Wednesday, with Game 1 starting at 1:35 p.m. ET and Game 2 following at 6:35 p.m. ET.

That's not the news the Blue Jays wanted with just a handful of games left in a season hanging by a thread in the wild-card race.

Every postponement this late in September compresses the schedule further, and a doubleheader adds real strain to a pitching staff that's already been stretched thin all year.

Toronto has leaned on bullpen games and shuffled rotation pieces for weeks, and now two games in one day means finding length from multiple arms in a single afternoon and evening.

Why the timing makes this particularly tricky

With the Blue Jays on the brink of playoff elimination depending on other results around the league, losing a normal off-day or a single-game pace adds extra pressure to an already tense stretch.

Manager John Schneider will need to sort out how to divide pitching responsibilities across both games, likely leaning further on bullpen length rather than committing two traditional starters to back-to-back full outings.

Doubleheaders also test position players physically, especially late in a long season when fatigue has already been a factor for players managing nagging injuries.

There's no word yet on the exact pitching plan for either game, though that should become clearer as Wednesday approaches.

For a Blue Jays team with almost no margin left, playing two meaningful games in one day adds one more variable to a playoff push that's already down to the wire.