{"id":411116,"date":"2026-09-26T07:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T07:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/411116\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T07:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T07:16:20","slug":"cubs-red-sox-series-finale-moved-to-tampa-amid-storm-threat-in-boston-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/411116\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs-Red Sox series finale moved to Tampa amid storm threat in Boston &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Major League Baseball moved a regular-season series finale between the Red Sox and Chicago Cubs from Fenway Park to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, because of a weekend storm threat in the Boston area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original schedule had a three-game series between the playoff-bound teams with games Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Because of the forecast of heavy rains and high wind gusts, MLB on Wednesday rescheduled Sunday\u2019s game as part of a doubleheader Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the Red Sox won the first game of the doubleheader 4-3, MLB announced Saturday\u2019s game had been moved to the home of the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both teams planned to travel to Florida after Friday\u2019s second game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Red Sox manager Chad Tracy told his team on Thursday to pack for an 11-day trip, just to be sure. Boston plays at the New York Yankees in a best-of-three Wild Card Series starting Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPack for the next week and a half and be ready to roll,\u201d Tracy recalled telling his players. \u201cIt\u2019s strange. You usually know who you\u2019re going to play and when you\u2019re going to lay them. \u2026 At least we\u2019re prepared to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Major League Baseball moved a regular-season series finale between the Red Sox and Chicago Cubs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-411116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411116","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=411116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}