Cubs and Red Sox Finale Moved to Tropicana Field

Major League Baseball announced that the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox will play their regular-season finale Sunday, September 27, at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, instead of Fenway Park. The game is scheduled to start at 3:05 p.m. Eastern Time, after a nor’easter forecast to bring hazardous weather to the Boston area prompted the relocation. The change followed several adjustments to the teams’ weekend schedule. The finale had been shifted from Sunday to Friday as part of a doubleheader, but the league later set it for Sunday in Florida. Reports differ on the intermediate schedule: one account says the finale had been placed on Friday, while another says it remained scheduled for Saturday. The supplied reports do not resolve that discrepancy. The storm also led officials to move up the start time of Friday’s second game. The National Weather Service forecast coastal flooding and high winds in the Boston area, as well as hazardous surf. The league and teams arranged the relocation to avoid playing the finale at Fenway during the forecast conditions.