The Boston Red Sox have been scheduled to play at home in Fenway Park on Patriots ' Day every year since 1959 . The game was postponed due to weather in 1959 , 1961 , 1965 , 1967 , 1984 , and 2018 , and was canceled in 1995 because of the baseball strike . The game was played in 2013 despite the Boston Marathon bombing because it had finished before the bombs went off . From 1968 to 2006 the games started early , in the morning , around 11:00 am . The early start to these games usually resulted in the game ending just as the marathon is heading through Kenmore Square . However , since 2007 the marathon has started between 9:30 am and 10:00 am , resulting in the racers going through Kenmore towards the middle of the Red Sox game
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