A fire alarm at Fenway Park caused the Red Sox game against the Orioles to be briefly delayed in the top of the eighth inning on Tuesday night. 

Dylan Beavers was at the plate for the Orioles with the Red Sox trailing 3-1 when the alarms started blaring inside the famed Boston ballpark and the umpires paused the game. 

The broadcast showed the blinking fire alarm lights going off in parts of the stadium and a message on the video board urging calm. 

Play was delayed due to a fire alarm during the eighth inning of the Red Sox’s 4-3, 11-inning home loss to the Orioles on Aug. 19, 2025. Brian Fluharty-Imagn Images

The Boston Globe’s Tim Healey reported that an automated voice was telling people to evacuate. 

“We are currently experiencing an alarm,” a message on video screens around the stadium read. “Please remain calm as we investigate the source of the alarm. Further instructions will follow as necessary.”

The game was eventually resumed after a brief delay, but the Boston Herald labeled the incident as “notable” since it reported that an alarm “typically” goes off at Fenway numerous times during a season and the games usually aren’t halted. 

Back in 2021, a similar situation occurred when the Red Sox were hosting the Yankees in Boston. 

The blaring alarm and flashing lights started to go off during a September matchup of that season and it caused a four-minute delay in the action. 

Tomoyuki Sugano delivers a pitch to Masataka Yoshida during the first inning of the Orioles’ 11-inning road win over the Red Sox. Getty Images

A team spokesperson later told the Associated Press that the cause of the alarm had been a faulty sprinkler head. 

The delay on Tuesday night seemed to benefit the Red Sox, who ended up getting out of the top of the eighth without giving up a run. 

The Red Sox tied the score at 3-3 off a Nathaniel Lowe two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth, but they ended up falling 4-3 to the Orioles in 11 innings to wrap up the two-game set with their AL East rival.