{"id":819,"date":"2024-06-29T20:40:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T15:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=453168"},"modified":"2024-06-29T20:18:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T14:48:27","slug":"former-red-sox-xander-bogaerts-gets-standing-ovation-in-return-to-fenway-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/former-red-sox-xander-bogaerts-gets-standing-ovation-in-return-to-fenway-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Red Sox Xander Bogaerts gets standing ovation in return to Fenway Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last offseason, the Boston Red Sox bid adieu to star shortstop Xander Bogaerts, who found greener pastures with the San Diego Padres after the Sox failed to pony up a suitable contract offer. Instead, the Padres swooped in with a jaw-dropping $280 million deal spread over 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>While the front office may have fumbled in expressing their appreciation through a contract, Red Sox faithful made sure to shower Bogaerts with love on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>During his first return to Fenway Park since donning the Padres jersey, the Red Sox rolled out the red carpet. A heartfelt video tribute lit up the center field board, accompanied by thunderous applause and a standing ovation from the fans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Xander Bogaerts standing ovation and video tribute In his return to Fenway <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/padres?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#padres<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BSpwDVNJ0x\">pic.twitter.com\/BSpwDVNJ0x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Allison Edmonds (@aedmondstv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aedmondstv\/status\/1806832147891638343?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s hoping next time Bogaerts swings by Fenway, he\u2019s in tip-top shape to hit the field, giving fans another chance to show their gratitude in full force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last offseason, the Boston Red Sox bid adieu to star shortstop Xander Bogaerts, who found greener pastures with the San\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":23956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2818,3850],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-mlb","tag-red-sox"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}