Dennis Eckersley may have been mistreated by David Price, but he certainly wasn’t mistreated by the Fenway Park crowd on Tuesday night.
During a regularly scheduled appearance in the Red Sox legends booth, which hosts a different longtime Sox player to wave to fans with a brief appearance on the video board during each home game, Eckersley was showered with applause from a crowd that appeared to be at capacity.
No matter the ex-player who gets the spotlight in that moment each night, there’s always a big round of applause. But rarely is it as loud or as boisterous as it was on Tuesday, when many fans stood on their feet to salute the Hall of Famer.