Dodgers, Angels reschedule Sunday games due to Hurricane Hilary

Mother Nature has thrown the Dodgers and Angels a rare August curveball, and they are adjusting accordingly.

Both teams – and the San Diego Padres – have rescheduled their Sunday games due to the forecast related to Hurricane Hilary. All three teams will now play their Sunday home games as the earlier games of split doubleheaders on Saturday.

The changes were announced by MLB as Hilary churned off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Friday as a powerful Category 4 storm.

The Dodgers will now play the Miami Marlins at noon and 6:10 p.m. on Saturday at Dodger Stadium.

The Angels and the Tampa Bay Rays will play their games at 1:07 p.m. and 6:07 p.m. on Saturday at Angel Stadium.

The Padres and the Arizona Diamondbacks will square off at 12:10 p.m. and 5:40 p.m. on Saturday at Petco Park in San Diego.

For ticket holders, MLB says all of Sunday’s rescheduled games will now become the early afternoon games of Saturday’s split doubleheaders. Saturday’s originally scheduled games remain intact.

Hilary grew in strength early Friday before losing some steam in the afternoon, with sustained winds falling from 145 mph to 130 mph. It was forecast to still be a hurricane when approaching Mexico’s Baja California peninsula on Saturday night, and a tropical storm when approaching Southern California on Sunday.

No tropical storm has made landfall in Southern California since Sept. 25, 1939, according to the National Weather Service.