BOSTON — Sunday will forever be remembered in Red Sox history as the day David Ortiz was inducted into the Hall of Fame, as the franchise icon officially became baseball royalty in Cooperstown.
A couple hundred miles away in Boston, though, his former team was finishing off a weekend to forget.
In three troubling days at Fenway Park, this Red Sox season – if not already – became concerning, with their short and long-term futures suddenly in limbo as the trade deadline approaches in one week.