Yankees-Red Sox game postponed; split doubleheader set for Sunday

June 17th, 2023

BOSTON -- The Red Sox and Yankees, baseball’s most storied rivals, will play a split doubleheader on Father’s Day.

This, after Saturday night’s game at Fenway Park was postponed due to a forecast of moderate to heavy rainfall in the Fenway area throughout the evening.

Tickets for Saturday’s game can be used for the rescheduled contest at 1:35 p.m. ET on Sunday.

Game 2, as originally scheduled for Sunday Night baseball, is at 7:10 p.m. on ESPN. Each team’s cable outlet will carry Game 1 -- NESN for the Red Sox and YES for the Yankees.

Brayan Bello, who would have pitched on Saturday night for Boston, will start Game 2 of the doubleheader. The Red Sox have listed TBD for Game 1, and it will likely be a callup from the Minor Leagues. MLB teams are eligible to call up a 27th player for doubleheaders.

The Yankees are going with Clarke Schmidt in Game 1 and Luis Severino for the nightcap. James Paxton had originally been scheduled to start for the Red Sox on Sunday, but he will presumably pitch the opener of a four-game series in Minneapolis on Monday.

If the Sox had started both Bello and Paxton on Sunday, they would have needed a starter for Thursday. Instead, the Sox will call up a starter for Game 1 of the doubleheader and push the other starters back a day in the rotation.

After taking two out of three at Yankee Stadium last weekend, the Red Sox routed the Yankees, 15-5, in Friday night’s opener of this three-game series at Fenway Park.