ATLANTA _ The Braves' game against the Mets on Thursday night at SunTrust Park was postponed by rain in the fourth inning and will be made up at a later date.
Jay Bruce's two-run homer in the fourth gave the Mets a 3-1 lead. But because fewer than five innings were played it was not an official game _ the statistics were wiped away and game will be played again in its entirety rather than resume from the point it was halted.
The Mets return to Atlanta for two more series June 9-11 and Sept. 15-17 and the game will presumably be made up as a doubleheader during one of those series.
The Mets won two of three games in the rain-shortened series. It was the 11th game at SunTrust Park and none of the previous 10 had been delayed by rain.
The two teams were already scheduled to play a Sept. 25 doubleheader in New York to make up a game rained out last week at Citi Field.
The Mets took a 1-0 lead in the first inning after Wilmer Flores hit a leadoff double. T.J. Rivera followed with a single and Jose Reyes grounded into a double play with Flores scoring. Braves left-hander Jaime Garcia struck out Rene Rivera to end the inning.
Consecutive one-out doubles from Brandon Phillips and Freddie Freeman in the third inning tied the score at 1. But after Garcia walked Asdrubal Cabrera to start the fourth inning, Bruce hit a long home run that landed just in front of the second level of the Chop House beyond right field.
Bruce's homer and everything else that happened in the game was erased when it got rained out.
The game was halted two ground-outs later and delayed for two hours before it was officially called.
