{"id":616471,"date":"2026-04-19T05:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616471\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:13:17","slug":"rain-threat-forces-red-sox-to-change-time-of-sundays-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616471\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain threat forces Red Sox to change time of Sunday&#8217;s game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6df06f6-785d-3900-4935-5fd13742e2ee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> pushed back the start of Sunday&#8217;s game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b27c64bf-4f18-f713-ba06-db1bce2394e7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> by three hours because of a forecast of rain.<\/p>\n<p>The first pitch at Fenway Park is now scheduled for 4:35 p.m. The original schedule had the game at 1:35 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The team said it consulted with Major League Baseball because of a forecast for rain from mid-day into the afternoon. The later start could take advantage of better weather expected later in the afternoon &#8220;and provides the best opportunity to play the game on Sunday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The teams have split the first two games of the four-game series, with the finale the traditional Patriots&#8217; Day morning start in Boston on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON &#8212; The Boston Red Sox pushed back the start of Sunday&#8217;s game against the Detroit Tigers by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-616471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}