Pedro Martinez spends another rainy day waiting for his chance to take the mound.

"I think it's romantic. It's nice to cuddle in," he said Sunday after his start was rained out for the fourth consecutive game. "I like cloudy days and storms when I'm sleeping. But that's if I'm sleeping -- not to play baseball."

The Red Sox and Cleveland Indians postponed their entire series this weekend because of a storm that drenched Boston. The same storm postponed Martinez' originally scheduled start Thursday night, in Detroit.

Because of the long layoff, Martinez warmed up in the outfield Sunday for about 12 minutes and pushed his start back to Tuesday in Texas. His brother Ramon will pitch the series opener against the Rangers, and Jeff Fassero will pitch Wednesday.

"I know, being a power pitcher, you normally lose your touch if

Three times the Red Sox and Indians came to the ballpark, and three times they left without a pitch being thrown. Sunday was a double-dip: The team postponed a doubleheader that had to be scheduled because of Saturday's rainout.

"It's almost like an All-Star break," said Indians first baseman Richie Sexson. "But I don't think anybody really cares. You get banged and you move on, jump on a plane and head to Seattle."

Sunday's game was rescheduled for 6:05 p.m. on June 8, which had been an off-day for both teams. Cleveland will stop in on its way home from a road trip in Milwaukee, and the Red Sox will come home for one day between series at Florida and Atlanta.

To make up the other games, the teams will play a pair of split doubleheaders on Sept. 20 and 21. Both days will have separate admission games at 1:05 and 7:05 p.m.

The Indians left after Sunday's rainout for Seattle. Chuck Finley, Charles Nagy and Jaret Wright will pitch for Cleveland there.

Finley said he sat in the dugout until about 3:30 p.m., when they told him the game was called. The announcement wasn't made to the fans or press until 4:27 p.m.

"I didn't want to come out there and start letting my guard down," he said. "I sat there and watched the video about six times."

Other players said they did anything they could to pass the time. But after three days, they were running out of ways to kill time.

"Ate breakfast. Ate lunch. Played cards. Played cribbage. Guys worked out. Guys watched TV," Red Sox first baseman Mike Stanley said. "What else could there have been to do in the confines of the clubhouse. We pretty much exasperated all of it."