Major League Baseball and the Red Sox may suffer the consequences of the rampant escalation of the Coronavirus that has already impacted the schedule of South Korea and Japanese leagues. MLB has a history of schedule disruptions, but those were primarily labor issues and war, but baseball did suffer in another pandemic.
In 1918 the horrific Spanish Flu Epidemic was a worldwide death plague with an estimated 50-100 million deaths across the globe and 650,000 in America. The specter of death did not leave baseball unscathed as several players, a noted umpire, and a sportswriter all succumbed.