{"id":292623,"date":"2026-07-10T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292623\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:08:08","slug":"red-sox-team-plane-finally-airborne-en-route-to-new-york-after-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292623\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox team plane finally airborne, en route to New York after delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox are supposed to open their three-game weekend series with the New York Mets on Friday night at 7:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to numerous flight delays, the team likely won\u2019t arrive at Citi Field until less than three hours before the scheduled first pitch.<\/p>\n<p>A Red Sox source confirmed that the team plane is finally airborne after nearly a day\u2019s worth of delays leaving Chicago. The team was originally scheduled to fly from Chicago to New York on Thursday night following the club\u2019s series finale against the White Sox, but according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7436948\/2026\/07\/10\/red-sox-travel-delay\/?unlocked_article_code=1.wlA.H_02.Aj4pKDgZE_x_&amp;source=athletic_user_shared_gift_article_copylink&amp;smid=url-share-ta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiple reports<\/a> the club\u2019s flight was grounded due to plane issues, which stranded the Red Sox in Chicago into Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Typically MLB teams arrive at the ballpark roughly five hours before first pitch for pregame meetings and activities. As of this writing it\u2019s not clear if Friday\u2019s game will start on time or if it will need to be pushed back.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second time in three weeks the Red Sox have faced significant travel disruptions. Following the club\u2019s June 24 series finale in Denver the Red Sox\u2019s flight home was forced to turn around and land due to a plane issue, and the team didn\u2019t make it back to Boston until 5 a.m. the following morning.<\/p>\n<p>Since that nightmare flight the Red Sox have seen their fortunes turn around, winning 11 of their last 13 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox are supposed to open their three-game weekend series with the New York Mets on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3472,1188,111752,2032,20,9,11,320,10,111753,16811],"class_list":["post-292623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-delays","tag-flight-issues","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-plane-issues","tag-red-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}