It’s that time of morning again with the annual Patriots Day AM Red Sox game. Rich Hill, still grieving the loss of his father just a few days ago, will make the start at the always-emotional Patriots’ Day game this morning against Dylan Bundy and the Twins (11:10 a.m., NESN, MLBN out-of-market).
There’s almost too much going on with this particular Patriots’ Day game to keep track of. First off, Hill—the local guy making the start at the singularly local game—is mourning his dad, who was a Boston Marathon runner. Second, after 2013, the Patriots’ Day game took on an entirely new level of significance, not leastwise because of David Ortiz’s speech a few days later, which I will always post on this day:
Third, this is the first time since 2019 that the Boston Marathon is taking place on Patriots’ Day.