With heavy rains in the forecast for the Fenway Park area this afternoon, the Boston Red Sox have postponed today’s opener against the Tampa Bay Rays until 4:05 PM tomorrow afternoon.
“After consulting with our weather service and other professional meteorologists, it became apparent it would be extremely unlikely, if not impossible, that we could get a complete game in today so the decision was made to postpone until Tuesday,” said Larry Lucchino, President/CEO. “Our fans look forward to this unofficial Red Sox Nation holiday each year, and we want to make sure that they are able to enjoy the full experience including both the special pregame ceremonies and a full nine innings of play. We reserved an alternate rain date for tomorrow for just such adverse circumstances as present themselves today.”
Tickets from today’s game will be good for tomorrow’s game and the gates will open at 2:05 PM.
As far as the Red Sox pitching goes, Josh Beckett will still be on the mound for the Red Sox and instead of pitching on Saturday in Anaheim against the Los Angeles Angels, he’ll now pitch on Sunday. Brad Penny will not go down to Florida as expected and he’ll now pitch Saturday against the Angels.
Good job schedule makers, you could have had the Red Sox play down in Tampa so we could be watching the Red Sox play some baseball today.
