The White Sox and Braves will have to wait until August 20 to finish their series after Thursday night's finale was postponed by rain, giving Chicago an unexpected day of rest before a daunting stretch against the Dodgers and Yankees.
One of the beautiful things about the game of baseball is the fact that there's always tomorrow. Over the course of a 162-game season, baseball fans only have to wait one day before they can watch their team try to redeem itself after a tough loss. And when your team is playing well, there's never a break in the action.
There's a lot going right for the Chicago White Sox right now. As they currently sit at 36-31 and in first place in the AL Central, the White Sox are becoming appointment television on a nightly basis. Sox fans everywhere wait all day and genuinely look forward to watching this team play.
That was especially the case on Thursday night as the White Sox looked for a series sweep against the Atlanta Braves. It's not every day that you have an opportunity to sweep the best team in baseball at your home ballpark.
Unfortunately, the weather had other ideas and forced a break in the action. Thursday night's game between the White Sox and Braves was officially postponed due to rain.
The game will be made up on Thursday, August 20, with first pitch scheduled for 1:10 p.m. CT. That's a significantly bigger inconvenience for the Braves than it is for the White Sox.
Chicago will already be in town after wrapping up a series at Wrigley Field against the Cubs. Rather than traveling, the White Sox will simply head across town and add one more game to their schedule before continuing the rest of their homestand.
The Braves, meanwhile, will have to make a special trip to Chicago in the middle of a road swing. Atlanta is scheduled to be in Minnesota before the makeup game and will head to Milwaukee immediately afterward, creating an awkward travel day that the White Sox won't have to deal with.
In the meantime, it might be good for the White Sox to get some rest. They'll host the Los Angeles Dodgers over the weekend before heading to New York for a date with the Yankees. This remains the most difficult stretch of the schedule for the White Sox thus far, and possibly the most challenging stretch they'll face all year.
So having an additional off day, along with some built-in rest and a chance to break up these games, is a welcome sight. Colson Montgomery is still nursing a back injury and Everson Pereira was just returned from a rehab stint in Charlotte.
The main question is how this will affect Chicago's starting rotation. Anthony Kay was scheduled to get the ball on Thursday, but now he could take the hill for the White Sox against the Dodgers on Friday evening.
At the very least, it's another day in first place and another day of riding the positive vibes that the Atlanta series brought to Chicago.
