It’s not quite the single red painted seat in the sea of green of Fenway Park’s right field seating area. That bright red marker commemorates Ted Williams’ legendary blast on June 9, 1946, which is said to be the longest in the stadium’s storied history, reportedly measuring 502 feet.
But Mariners players and coaching staff decided to jokingly commemorate Daniel Vogelbach’s towering two-run homer into the third deck of T-Mobile Park in Monday night’s 6-2 victory over the Rangers that snapped a six-game losing streak.
A bright orange cone was placed on the first row seat of section 310 where the ball landed with yellow “caution” tape wrapped around the seat and marking off the area.