{"id":344726,"date":"2026-07-18T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344726\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:24:11","slug":"saturdays-red-sox-rays-game-delayed-due-to-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344726\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday&#8217;s Red Sox-Rays game delayed due to heavy rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of Saturday\u2019s 4:10 p.m. ET game between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park has been delayed due to heavy rain in the Fenway area, the home team announced at a quarter past three.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2026\/07\/09\/red-sox-patrick-sandoval-debut-injury-tommy-john-surgery-chicago-white-sox-caleb-durbin-willson-contreras-andrew-benintendi-jordan-hicks-anthony-kay-mlb-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Patrick Sandoval<\/a> (0-0, 2.08 ERA, 5 K) is scheduled to start for the Red Sox, opposite fellow left-hander Ian Seymour (6-2, 4.59 ERA, 75 K).<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox are 48-48 after winning their 11th consecutive game in the latter half of Friday\u2019s split doubleheader. The Rays are 56-40 and in first place in the American League East, two and a half games ahead of the Yankees and eight ahead of the third-place Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Fittingly, the Red Sox and Rays were forced to open the second half of the season with a split doubleheader because their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2026\/05\/09\/red-sox-rays-postponed-heavy-rain-boston-weather-split-doubleheader-july-17-mlb-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">May 9 game at Fenway got rained out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The start of Saturday\u2019s 4:10 p.m. ET game between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6647,77317,141307,96743,141308,26392,3817,135,3815,137,136],"class_list":["post-344726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-boston-weather","tag-fenway-park","tag-fenway-weather","tag-massachusetts","tag-mlb","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}