Mets-Braves postponement sets MLB record for April
ATLANTA » Major League Baseball had its 26th postponement of the season when the 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 following the death of St. Louis 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 on May 28.
Braves manager Brian Snitker said the rainout will give his players a well-timed rest — even though he was hoping his team could build on momentum gained from Saturday night’s 4-3 last atbat win.
“We’ve still got seven days before we have an off day, so it will be good to give everybody an extra day,” Snitker said.
Braves right-hander Mike Foltynewicz was pushed back and rescheduled to start Monday’s series opener at Cincinnati. Snitker said others in the rotation also will be pushed back one day.
Mets starter Zack Wheeler will start Tuesday’s series opener at St. Louis, following an off day.
Right-hander Noah Syndergaard will start against the Cardinals on Wednesday, filling the rotation spot originally planned for Matt Harvey. The Mets announced on Saturday that Harvey, struggling with a 6.00 ERA, is moving to the bullpen.
Sunday’s games
Cleveland 7, Baltimore 3 N.Y. Yankees 5, Toronto 1 Kansas City 8, Detroit 5 Tampa Bay 8, Minnesota 6 Houston 7, Chicago White Sox 1 Texas 7, Seattle 4 Oakland 4, Boston 1
San Francisco 4, L.A. Angels 2
Monday’s games
Cleveland (Carrasco 3-0) at Baltimore (Gausman 1-1), 7:05 p.m. Minnesota (Odorizzi 1-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 2-2), 7:05 p.m.
Oakland (Cahill 1-0) at Texas (Moore 1-3), 8:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Skaggs 2-1) at Houston (Cole 2-0), 8:10 p.m.
Seattle (Leake 2-1) at Chicago White Sox (TBD), 8:10 p.m.
The unscheduled day off was well-timed 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 on Saturday night. Callaway said Frazier’s toe was “throbbing pretty good.”
Bruce is hitting only .194 with one homer.
“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. “Just let him relax a little bit for a couple days.”
Bruce was 2 for 12 in the first three games of the series.
“He’s in a spot right now where he’s trying to figure things out and that’s never a comfortable spot to be in,” Arizona Colorado Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego
Saturday’s games
St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 3 Philadelphia 6, Pittsburgh 2 Atlanta 4, N.Y. Mets 3 Milwaukee 6, Miami 5 Arizona 6, San Diego 2 Colorado 5, Chicago Cubs 2 L.A. Angels 4, San Francisco 3 L.A. Dodgers 4, Washington 0
Sunday’s games
N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, ppd. Philadelphia 3, Pittsburgh 2, 11 innings Milwaukee 4, Miami 2
St. Louis 9, Cincinnati 2 Chicago Cubs 9, Colorado 7
San Francisco 4, L.A. Angels 2 Arizona 4, San Diego 2 Washington at L.A. Dodgers
Monday’s games
Atlanta (Foltynewicz 1-1) at Cincinnati (Romano 0-2), 6:40 p.m.
San Diego (Mitchell 0-2) at Colorado (Bettis 3-0), 8:40 p.m.
Miami (Garcia 1-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Buehler 0-0), 10:10 p.m. Washington (Gonzalez 2-1) at San Francisco (Stratton 1-1), 10:15 p.m.
R H BIBBSO
0 1 0 0 0
W
15 12 9 9 8 0 2 1 0 0 6 11 10 12 15 0 1 0 0 0
L
.714 .522 .474 .429 .348 0 0 1 0 1
Pct
3 0 1 2 0
GB
_ 4 5 6 8
Avg
.294 .343 .237 .250 .130 Callaway said. “... Jay Bruce is a really good player. He’ll Morales dh Pillar cf Travis 2b Gurriel ss
Totals New York
Hicks cf Judge rf Gregorius ss Stanton lf Sanchez dh Austin 1b Andujar 3b Torres 2b Romine c
Totals Toronto New York E: 2B:
Martin (2); Toronto 7, New York 6; Smoak (6), Sanchez (5), Andujar 2 (7), Romine (1); Hernandez (3), off Severino, Gregorius (6), off Garcia;
Hernandez (10), Gregorius 2 (20), Andujar (10), Romine 2 (6); Pillar (4), Hicks (1); Gregorius;
Toronto 5 (Hernandez 2, Morales, Travis 2), New York 3 (Hicks, Romine 2); Toronto 0 for 9, New York 3 for 8; Granderson; Solarte, Torres; Toronto 1 (Solarte, Travis, Smoak), New York 1 (Torres, Gregorius, Austin);
Home, Tom Woodring, First, Ted Barrett, Second, Lance Barksdale, Third, Will Little; 2:47; 43,628 (54,251).
RBIs: 30 AB 31 1 4 8 BI BB SO 000 001 000 120 001 10x LOB: SF: scoring position: SB: Runners left in RISP: Runners moved up: GIDP: DP: T: A:
3 3 3 3 4 3 3 4 3 3 4 4 3 Garcia, L, 2-1 51⁄3 Oh 2⁄3 Barnes 1 Axford 1
Severino, W, 4-17 Robertson 1
HR:
6 1 1 1
3 1 0 0 0 0
1 R
1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0
5
4 0 1 0
1 0 0 1 0 0
4 H
1 0 1 0 1 1 4 0 1
9
4 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 2
5 — —
.290 .324 .333 .185 .188 .286 .308 .000 .292
41 90 Umpires:
3 0 0 0
2 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
3
6 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0
6 1 5
.235 .304 .140 .273
Avg
95 4.57 17 2.08 16 0.77 12 2.70
6 112 2.32 1 14 3.86 bounce back. He’s been through this before as ev- Chapman
Inherited runners-scored:
Severino (Pillar).
Pittsburgh
Rodriguez 2b-ss Polanco rf Marte cf Dickerson lf Freese 1b Moran 3b Mercer ss Rodriguez p Diaz c T.Williams p Feliz p a-Frazier ph Kontos p E.Santana p c-Bell ph Crick p Moroff 2b
Totals Philadelphia
Hernandez 2b C.Santana 1b Herrera cf Hoskins lf N.Williams rf Ramos p Hunter p b-Florimon ph Arano p d-Franco ph Rios p Kingery 3b Knapp c Pivetta p Altherr rf Crawford ss 1
AB
4 4 5 4 5 4 5 0 5 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
40 AB
3 4 5 4 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 5 4 2 3 3 0
R
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 R
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 21 2.00 Oh 2-1;
H BI BB SO
0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
7 H
1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 4 11 BI BB SO
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
HBP:
2 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 0 1
Avg
.194 .197 .274 .303 .226 .270 .239
— .409 .111
— .224
—
— .253
— .333
Avg
.280 .151 .329 .323 .217
—
— .182
— .241
— .229 .216 .273 .157 .185 erybody has. He’ll end up turning it around.”
Totals
One out when winning run scored; agrounded out for Feliz in the 8th; b-flied out for Hunter in the 8th; c-tripled for E.Santana in the 10th; d-out on fielder’s choice for Arano in the 10th.
T.Williams (1), Crick (1), Kingery (2), Crawford (3); Pittsburgh 9, Philadelphia 10; Mercer (7), Pivetta (1); Bell (1), Knapp (1), Altherr (1);
Diaz (2), off Pivetta; Diaz 2 (4), Hernandez (9), Pivetta (1), Altherr (10);
Marte (7); Hoskins (2); Hernandez;
Pittsburgh 5 (Marte, Freese, Mercer 2, Diaz), Philadelphia 4 (C.Santana, Crawford, Florimon, Franco); Pittsburgh 1 for 10, Philadelphia 1 for 6;
Freese; Dickerson; Pittsburgh 1 (Diaz, Mercer), Philadelphia 2 (Knapp, Hernandez), (Hernandez, C.Santana); Home, Nic Lentz, First, Bill Welke, Second, Tony Randazzo, Third, Lance Barrett; 3:35; 29,199 (43,647).
E: 3B: HR: SB: CS: SF: Runners left in scoring position: moved up: LOB: 2B: LIDP: Umpires:
T.Williams 6 1 Feliz 1 1 Kontos 1 2 E.Santana 1 1 Crick 1 1 Rodriguez, L, 0-11⁄3 2
Pivetta Ramos Hunter Arano Rios, W, 3-0
61⁄3 2⁄3 1 2 1
RBIs: RISP: Runners DP:
2 2 7 93 2.57 0 0 1 10 0.96 0 0 1 8 0.00 0 2 1 30 0.00 0 0 1 16 1.29
Ramos 1-0;
Inherited runners-scored: WP:
T.Williams.
38
5 0 0 1 1
3 T:
2 0 0 0 0 1
2 0 0 0 0
8
2 0 0 0 0 1
3
5 0 0 0 0 0
5 12 A:
7 3 0 1 1 0
92 2.15 20 5.00 14 4.50 13 5.62 19 0.00
9 2.25