Atlanta Braves game with SF Giants suspended due to rain, resumes Thursday
The Atlanta Braves returned home to Truist Park with the best record in baseball and played a rain-delayed game against the San Francisco Giants, which was suspended in the bottom of the second inning with the Giants leading 3-2. The post Atlanta Braves game with SF Giants suspended due to rain, resumes Thursday appeared first on The Atlanta Voice.
Black News 
The Atlanta Braves brought the best overall record in baseball, 46-25 (The Los Angeles Dodgers are 46-27), back home to Truist Park. Atlanta will play six straight against the San Francisco Giants and Milwaukee Brewers over the next six days. Things got started with Braves right-hander Grant Holmes on the mound under grey skies on Tuesday night. The game was delayed by more than an hour due to rain.
The game was ultimately suspended. It will resume at 2 p.m. on Thursday with the Braves up to bat in the bottom of the second inning and the score 3-2 in favor of the Giants. The regularly scheduled 7:15 p.m. game on Thursday night is still on.
Holmes’ last start was a no-decision in Chicago against the White Sox. He pitched 3.2 innings, gave up four hits, and three earned runs.
On Tuesday, he only lasted two innings and gave up three earned runs before being replaced on the mound following the delay.
The Giants were 5-5 in their last 10 games before starting this series, but they didn’t start the game like a team struggling to win games. With two runners on, Giants right fielder Jung Hoo Lee drove in the game’s first run with a first-inning sacrifice fly. To that point in the first, Holmes had already given me up a double, single, walk, and thrown a wild pitch. The fact that the Braves got out of that inning with the Giants scoring just one run says a lot more about the team from San Francisco than it does Holmes and Atlanta.
Drake Baldwin was back in the lineup for Atlanta and wasted no time getting back in the good graces of Braves Country. His game-tying 473-foot solo home run to lead off the game was his 14th of the season. The home run was the longest in Major League Baseball this season. Mauricio Dubon drove in the second run of the game and the 38th of the season to put Atlanta ahead 2-1 before Austin Riley struck out to end the inning.
With the bases loaded in the second, Giants designated hitter Bryce Eldridge walked to drive in the tying. Matt Chapman’s sac fly to centerfield put the Giants ahead 3-2. The ball was hit on a low line, and Braves center field replacement Eli White made a great play to keep it from being a double. White was in the game to replace Michael Harris II, who was removed from the game after the first inning due to lower back tightness. Harris II (.306, 14 HR, 41 RBI, 35 runs) is in the middle of an All-Star caliber season.
The post Atlanta Braves game with SF Giants suspended due to rain, resumes Thursday appeared first on The Atlanta Voice.
