The Giants and Tigers played 22 innings of baseball this weekend in Detroit, but that would be all.
After an over five-hour rain delay, the Giants and Tigers’ series finale got officially postponed. The teams will make the game up on July 24, which was scheduled to be a San Francisco off day.
According to reporters on-scene in Detroit, the rain that brought the tarp out before the scheduled 10:10 a.m. PT first pitch subsided quickly and consistently. The weather was dry for at least three hours — longer than the average duration of MLB games this year with the pitch timer.
But the tarp remained, and the game hung in limbo even as the skies were relatively clear.
Giants starter Alex Cobb told Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle that the situation was handled terribly.
“It was terrible, we’ve been here since 10 a.m.,” Cobb told reporters. “Really no information was given to us. I think that ideally we would have handled that little rain delay early and then played. I know the threat was there but MLB’s making that decision, not us, so you try to stay locked in as long as you can.
“They give you a 45 minute heads up that you’re about to play and then it’s raining.”
The Giants, who have lost six of their last 8 games, were one more defeat away from getting swept by a Tigers team that finished last season 66-96. On Friday, the Giants lost, 7-5, in 11 innings. The next night, they dropped another to the Tigers, 7-6, again in 11 innings after blowing an early five-run lead.
Giants ace Logan Webb was supposed to make his first start after signing a five-year, $90 million extension. He’ll likely get a chance to show why he’s the Giants’ face of the franchise this week in Miami.
The July 24 make-up game extends the Giants’ post All-Star Break road trip from 10 games to 11.