Tuesday night’s game between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds was suspended after heavy storms blanketed Fenway Park in rain and lightning for an hour and 20 minutes before the fourth inning could begin.
The game will resume at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the point of suspension. Tickets for Tuesday’s game will be good for admission.
Wednesday’s regularly scheduled contest remains set for 7:10 p.m. ET.
Both games will be televised on NESN and broadcast on the radio in English (WEEI 93.7 FM) and Spanish (WESX 1230/WCCM 1490 AM).
Where we left off
Richard Fitts was at an efficient 38 pitches when Fenway Park grounds crew began unfurling the tarp before the top of the fourth inning.
The Red Sox right-hander had worked around a leadoff walk to TJ Friedl in the first to retire the next three Reds in order, and induced a pair of lineouts with a flyout in between in a 1-2-3 second.
Terry Francona’s new team led off the third with back-to-back singles by Will Benson and Christian Encarnacion-Strand, and the runners advanced on a Friedl sacrifice bunt. Matt McClain’s RBI groundout got the Reds on the board before Fitts induced Elly De La Cruz to fly out.
Boston jumped out to an immediate 2-0 lead against Brady Singer. Jarren Duran and Roman Anthony opened the bottom of the first with back-to-back doubles, and Carlos Narváez’s one-out RBI single brought Anthony home to score. Singer walked Wilyer Abreu to put two men on, but struck out Trevor Story and Marcelo Mayer to escape further damage.
The Red Sox could do no further damage against Singer before Mother Nature pressed pause on the game.
NESN’s groovy game
In honor of this week’s rematch between the 1975 World Series teams, NESN took viewers back in time on Tuesday.
Broadcasters Dave O’Brien, Lou Merloni, Jahmai Webster, Tom Caron and Jim Rice were clad in retro apparel: boldly-hued sport coats with wide lapels, loud neckties, and psychedelic prints. Webster donned a pair of round sunglasses.
Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk, who famously willed his Game 6-winning home run to stay fair, through sheer force of wave, inside the left field foul pole that now bears his name, waved from the Legends Suite.
Then, the NESN cameras turned back the clock. They colorized the broadcast to match contests of the era, and paired the footage with retro graphics.
It was only supposed to be for the third and fourth innings. But Game 6 of the World Series was famously delayed three days due to heavy rain in Boston, so it was fitting that Tuesday’s game went into a lengthy rain delay between the third and fourth, extending the 1975-style broadcast for over an hour.
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