COMMENTARY
There were no surprises to be found out at Fenway Park on Friday night.
As he’s done throughout his decade-long tenure so far in the big leagues, Mookie Betts etched his name all over the box score. The five-tool superstar doubled, scored two runs, and uncorked a rally-ending howitzer from right field in his first game in Boston in 1,425 days.
As Alex Cora predicted, a sellout crowd at Fenway Park welcomed Betts back to Boston with a thunderous ovation — prompting a tip of the helmet and a salute to a fanbase he routinely lifted out of those wooden grandstand seats with a run-robbing catch in right or a timely blast into the Monster seats.