“Patriots Day takes Fenway to a whole different level.” How the Red Sox helped heal Boston in wake of the Marathon attack. TimBritton from the archives.
Five years ago today, Patriots Day in Boston dawned sunny with a chill still in the air. An institution in Maine and Massachusetts, the holiday honors the first battles of the Revolutionary War and hosts both the Boston Marathon and the traditional 11 a.m.
After a woeful 2012 season, the Red Sox had changed managers and overhauled their personnel. Cherington emphasized the importance of a strong start, and Boston’s walk-off win over the Rays on Patriots Day lifted the team’s record to 8-4. Spirits were high as the team boarded its buses, waiting to head to the airport and a three-game series in Cleveland.: All of a sudden, our three police escorts on motorcycles turned on their sirens and sped away.: We’re so used to those guys.
The Red Sox hung a jersey paying tribute to the victims in the Marathon attack when they took the field in Cleveland for the first series after the bombs went off. By Saturday, Fenway Park had been swept for bombs three times in the last four days. It was actively patrolled by bomb-sniffing dogs all Saturday.: I remember being a little nervous, honestly. We are in a public place. Fenway Park becomes a place where you have to start thinking about security. That was on the minds of some of our players.: Everyone was on edge. Even though they had caught him, you still are living with this sort of uncertainty of what’s going on around your city.
The pregame ceremony culminated in a brief, improvised speech from David Ortiz. On the disabled list to start the season, Ortiz was in Boston instead of in Cleveland during that week — “staying in New England [that week] changed me,” he wrote in his autobiography. “Those four days told me a lot about where I lived, and just how deep my connection was to the city that adopted me.”: There was nothing planned about that from our perspective. It wasn’t like, ‘We’re going to give David the mike.
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