BOSTON — Game 2 of the Red Sox and Orioles doubleheader Friday has been postponed due to rain. It will be played Saturday at 1:05 p.m. as part of a day-night doubleheader. The second game tomorrow will start at 6:35 p.m. after it initially was scheduled for 4:10 p.m.

Jarren Duran and the Boston Red Sox will play Ryan O'Hearn and the Baltimore Orioles at Fenway Park in the second of a four-game series, on Saturday at 1:05 p.m. ET. The Red Sox pitching staff ranks 14th in the majors with a collective 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings. The Orioles have the 29th-ranked ERA (5.75) in the majors this season.

The Red Sox and Orioles had planned on playing a split doubleheader on Friday, but Mother Nature had other ideas. After Boston routed Baltimore, 19-5, in Game 1, the scheduled second game was postponed due to an extended period of rain in the Fenway Park area.

BOSTON — Red Sox manager Alex Cora used a position player, Pablo Reyes, to pitch the ninth inning with a 17-0 lead against the Cubs on April 27, 2024. Cora then said after the game that he “hates” the idea of ever using a position player to pitch with any lead.

Rafael Devers hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning a grand slam in the eighth to lead the Red Sox over the Orioles 19-5.

Seranthony Domínguez and Gregory Soto struggled mightily and the Orioles allowed 13 runs in the 8th inning to open a doubleheader in Boston.

Rafael Devers hit a grand slam to help the Red Sox rout the Orioles 19-5 in Game 1 of Friday's doubleheader. Read more on Boston.com.

The second game of a doubleheader between the Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles was postponed because of a rain and rescheduled as part of a day-night twin-bill on Saturday.