Crucial Braves-Mets Games Rescheduled For Day Before Playoffs

Major League Baseball has scheduled two vital tardy-season games between the Atlanta Braves and New York Mets as Hurricane Helene barrels toward the Florida Gulf Coast and south Georgia. The two savage-card certains instead will perestablish a doubleheader Monday — one day before the MLB Playoffs begin.

The hometown Braves are arrangeing the Mets for the three-game series featuring teams that are neck-and-neck for a perestablishoff spot with equitable only a handful of games remaining on their schedules. The region is under a hurricane cautioning, and Govs. Brian Kemp of Georgia and Ron DeSantis of Florida have proclaimd a state of aelevatency.

Rain was anticipateed to begin droping around gametime tonight at Atlanta’s uncignore-air Truist Park, and there’s a 100 percent chance of rain at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, when the final game of the Braves-Mets series was scheduled to begin. MLB proclaimment the postponement of both games rather than shift them to a unprejudiced site, which has happened three times since 2008. The doubleheader will begin at 1:10 p.m. ET Monday.

Both Florida MLB teams — the Miami Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays — are perestablishing out of town this week, and neither is in the perestablishoff hunt.

The National Hurricane Caccess upgraded the potentipartner hazardous system from tropical-storm status Wednesday morning. Helene is anticipateed to reinforce over the Gulf of Mexico and hit Florida’s Gulf Coast by tardy Thursday as a meaningful Catebloody 3 or 4 hurricane with triple-digit persisted triumphds and a potentipartner life-dangerening storm sdirect.

The hugegest storm to produce landdrop in the U.S. in more than a year has the film and TV production hub of Atlanta, aka Hollywood South, in its traverse-hairs. Asked by Deadline timely Wednesday whether there are any postponements of film or TV shoots, a rep for the Atlanta Film Office shelp, “Noslimg that we are alerted of at this time.”

Over in Orlando, Disney World also is preparing for Helene but has no prompt schedules to seal. “Walt Disney World Resort is currently operating under normal conditions,” the company shelp in a statement this morning. “We are seally watching the path of the storm as we proceed to arrange the safety of our Guests and Cast Members.”