NEW YORK — The Braves’ scheduled series opener against the Mets on Tuesday night was rained out and will be made up as part of a doubleheader Sept. 25, with the first game set for 4:10 p.m. at Citi Field.
Julio Teheran, who was set to pitch Tuesday, will instead start Wednesday against the Mets’ Noah Syndergaard. The Mets planned to start Robert Gsellman on Tuesday, but will instead skip his turn.
The Braves, who made a roster move Tuesday to add some power to their bench, will simply move back all their starting pitchers and keep their rotation in order with an extra day of rest for each. R.A. Dickey will face the Mets' Matt Harvey on Thursday afternoon in the finale of a shortened two-game series.
Bartolo Colon had been scheduled to face his former Mets team that day, but Colon will now start Friday’s series opener against the Brewers in Milwaukee.
The Sept. 25 makeup game will be played on the first day of the Braves’ season-ending road trip, which is now an eight-games-in-seven-days trip to New York and Miami. They’ll play four games against the Mets and then close the season with a four-game series at Marlins Park on Sept. 28-Oct. 1.
Meanwhile, the skidding Braves will face the Mets in two games Wednesday and Thursday before continuing on to Milwaukee on a three-city trip that began with Atlanta being swept in three games at Philadelphia.
