Red Sox fan Jazmin Lopez takes a group selfie while waiting for the start Sunday’s game against the Miami Marlins, which was eventually postponed. Steven Senne/Associated Press
BOSTON — The Miami Marlins started a lengthy road trip in rainy, chilly Boston.
Now, they’ll close it back at Fenway Park after Sunday’s game was rained out.
The game was called after about a 20-minute delay. The makeup is scheduled for Monday, June 7, at 5:10 p.m.
Miami lost the first two games of a nine-game, dealing with weather both days against the Red Sox.
“It’s been a frustrating series with the rain and how things have gone,” Miami Manager Don Mattingly said.
As for the makeup date and extending it to an 11-day trip now, he said: “It was not a date that we really wanted, but obviously it was out of our control.”
Being an interleague game, the Marlins make only one trip to Boston this season, so the teams had to look for a mutual day off.
Miami will be heading back to Boston after an afternoon game on June 6 in Pittsburgh, and the Red Sox will be returning home following a Sunday night matchup against the rival New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
On Friday, the Red Sox won 5-2 in a game that was called after 5 1/2 innings because of heavy rain. Boston also won Saturday’s game, 3-1, in chilly and sometimes drizzly conditions.
Saturday’s game marked the first time that the Red Sox were allowed full capacity after the state removed limits on crowd sizes during the pandemic. There was a paid attendance of 25,089 with the ballpark about two-thirds full because of the weather.
Boston has won the last nine games at Fenway between the teams and is 18-6 lifetime against the Marlins.
The forecast for Sunday afternoon called for steady rain late into the night and wasn’t expected to subside until early Monday morning.
Boston Manager Alex Cora, who returned to the team after missing Saturday’s win to attend the high school graduation of his daughter, Camila, in Puerto Rico figured that if Sunday’s game had been played, it could have been a lot like Friday night.
“It’s going to be another grind,” he said, about three hours before the game was called.
Mattingly wasn’t looking forward to another game that could get started and stopped. He said the team even had a discussion about whom to start, with the possibly of not burning out regular starting pitcher.
“Really the forecast was: You’re probably not playing nine,” Mattingly said.
“The off day will be good for us,” Mattingly said of Monday. “With things opening up, guys can go out for dinner.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Marlins: Mattingly thinks shortstop Jazz Chisholm, who was not in Sunday’s posted lineup and has missed the last four games because of a sprained right ankle, could be ready on Tuesday.
Red Sox: J.D. Martinez was not going to start Sunday after he fouled a ball off his left foot on Saturday.
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