Weather lets Braves rest

ATLANTA — Major League Baseball had its 26th postponement of the season when the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves were washed out Sunday, the most related to weather through April since the commissioner’s officer started keeping records in 1986.

There were also 26 postponements through April in 2007, but one game then was called off after the death of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock.

Rain began falling at SunTrust Park late Sunday morning and was forecast to continue through the afternoon and night. The game will be made up as part of a day-night doubleheader May 28.

Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said the rainout will give his players a well-timed rest — even though he was hoping the Braves could build on momentum gained from Saturday night’s 4-3 last at-bat win. The Braves won two of three against the Mets for their first home series win in the NL East rivalry since June 19-21, 2015, when they won three straight.

“We’ve still got seven days before we have an off day,” Snitker said, “so it will be good to give everybody an extra day.”

Braves right-hander Mike Foltynewicz was pushed back and rescheduled to start tonight’s series opener at Cincinnati. Snitker said others in the rotation will be pushed back one day, too.

The unscheduled day off was welltimed for at least two Mets players. Manager Mickey Callaway already planned to rest slumping right fielder Jay Bruce and third baseman Todd Frazier on Sunday.

Callaway said Frazier “got spiked pretty good” at third base Saturday night and that the player’s toe was “throbbing pretty good.”

Bruce is hitting .194 with one home run, and he was 2-for-12 in the first three games of the series in Atlanta.

“We decided before the game (Saturday) we were going to give him a day off so he could have two in a row,” Callaway said of Bruce.