Friday afternoon, Fenway Park should once again be the home of the Boston Red Sox as the team hosts the Baltimore Orioles for Opening Day after a brief postponement due to rain.
A lucky few thousand fans will even become the first to witness a Boston home baseball game since the fall of 2019 — a sign of how far the state has come since the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year.
Fenway’s work as a mass vaccination site for the last few months played a big role in achieving that milestone, with workers administering more than 56,000 COVID-19 vaccines to eligible recipients there since opening in January.