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Red Sox place Xander Bogaerts, Matt Barnes on bereavement leave

A rain out couldn’t have come at a better time for the Boston Red Sox.

Thursday’s series finale against the Pittsburgh Pirates has been pushed back a week due to inclement weather in Boston, buying the Red Sox some extra time to get some of their missing players back. Mookie Betts, Brock Holt and Robbie Ross missed last night’s thrilling extra-innings affair with flue like symptoms and may not have been available if there had been a game today. Now the team is down two more players.