As many anticipated, Thursday’s game between the San Francisco Giants and Atlanta Braves has been postponed. A storm has been tearing through the southeast, and it put all three games of the series in jeopardy: Tuesday’s game began during rainstorms, and was postponed in the second inning, though it was finished on Wednesday as part of a doubleheader when the rain calmed down. But the weather picked up again on Thursday, so severely that the game was scrapped nearly five hours before it was scheduled
to begin.
The Giants (who won the first two games of the series) caught a bad break with the rescheduling process. Rather than schedule a doubleheader for when the Braves visit the Bay Area in a week, MLB opted to maintain the home/road setup, as they always try to do (so that all teams can have the revenue of 81 home games). As such, the game has been rescheduled for Monday, August 31 in Atlanta, at 3:05 p.m. PT. That was originally a travel day for the Giants, after finishing a string of 13 games in as many days. Now, with the rescheduled contest (which comes after a home game on Sunday afternoon against the Arizona Diamondbacks, and before a Tuesday night game on the road against the Pittsburgh Pirates), the Giants will play on 23 consecutive days, from August 18 through September 9. That will be quite a test, though thankfully rosters will expand on September 1.
San Francisco is not using the unscheduled off day to adjust their rotation, and will instead just push everyone back. Their weekend series against the Miami Marlins will now feature Landen Roupp on Friday, Logan Webb on Saturday, and Trevor McDonald on Sunday.
