Red Sox's chance to match historic 15-game win streak postponed to Wednesday due to rain

The Boston Red Sox will have to wait to try and match the longest win streak in franchise history. 

The Red Sox's game with the Baltimore Orioles was postponed on Tuesday due to significant rain and thunderstorms in the Boston area, the team announced. Instead, the two teams will play a doubleheader on Wednesday to wrap up the three-game series.

That means that the Red Sox will have a chance to push their win streak to 16 games with a pair of victories on Wednesday. If they can pull that off, it'll mark the longest win streak in franchise history.

Caleb Durbin hit a late home run to lift the Red Sox past the Orioles 6-5 on Monday night. The comeback victory extended Boston's run of 14 straight wins, and snapped Baltimore's seven-game win streak in the process. The contest was also just the second in MLB history in which both teams had win streaks of at least seven games and combined for at least 20 consecutive wins played each other. The last time that happened was back in 1884. 

Boston's 15-game win streak was set back in 1946. The team came close to breaking that record most recently in 2006, but the streak snapped at 12 wins.

The Red Sox will take a 51-48 record into Wednesday afternoon's contest with the Orioles, which has them in third in the AL East standings. Their last defeat came back on July 1 in a 10-2 loss to the Washington Nationals.