SO STAY WEATHER ALERT LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SOME OF THOSE STORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS, AND EVEN A SMALL CHANCE FOR TORNADOES., This is because, like you said the game starts at first pitch. So, supposedly, they plan for the performance and people to settle in, and expect first pitch to be a few minutes after a more normal start time like 1:00, 3:30, etc., Why are the Red Sox playing so early on Monday, April 21? It's all in the fabric of Boston. Unless the Boston Red Sox are playing on Sunday Night Baseball, their schedule is pretty routine, The team will open the season at Oriole Park for the first time since 2018 when they host the Los Angeles Angels., The Baltimore Orioles have been struck out 10 times against the Yankees today., The Red Sox first began the tradition of playing a morning baseball game on Patriots Day in 1903 during the franchise’s third year of existence (back when they were called the Boston Americans)..