Giants-Braves rained out for second time, makeup set for Aug. 31

ATLANTA — The Giants spent four days here and played baseball once.

With the worst of a tropical storm set to arrive Thursday afternoon, the three-game set between the Giants and Braves ended the same way it began — in a rainout.

The game will be made up Aug. 31 in Atlanta with first pitch set for 6:05 p.m. ET.

The Giants-Braves game was rained out Thursday. MLB Photos via Getty Images

The date is one of three off days the teams share for the remainder of the season.

The Giants were scheduled to have a travel day on their way from San Francisco to begin a road trip against the Pirates and Mets, while the Braves will be in the middle of a home stand with another day off two days later.

The series finale was postponed well before the scheduled 7:15 first pitch, unlike the first game of the series, which was allowed to start in a downpour and ended up being suspended after only an inning and a half and a weather delay of nearly two hours.

In that case, the teams were easily able to squeeze in a doubleheader Wednesday, with the Giants sweeping both games. Making up the getaway day game won’t be so easy.

While the Braves visit San Francisco next weekend, agreeing to play a doubleheader there would have robbed Atlanta of one of 81 lucrative home dates. But making it up in Atlanta will come at a competitive cost for the Giants.

The make-up date will result in the Giants playing 23 games in 23 days, potentially putting a strain on an already-thin pitching staff. 

As far as the immediate impacts of the rainout, the Giants will push back everyone in their rotation by a day. Landen Roupp, scheduled to start the series finale Thursday, will instead pitch the first game against the Marlins on Friday, followed by Trevor McDonald and Logan Webb.

Somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 inches of rain was forecasted to fall in Atlanta between Tuesday afternoon and Friday evening, per the National Hurricane Center.

The worst of it was expected to arrive Thursday afternoon and last through the night, however when word came of the cancellation, only a few drops had begun to fall.