Jake Peavy’s emotional return to Boston

We hear the cliches after every championship. “We came together as a team.” “We overcame adversity.” “This is for the city.”

For the 2013 Red Sox, who rode a community to a World Series title like no other team in history, these weren’t cliches. These were realities.

Jake Peavy was part of a group that supported and rallied around New Englanders after the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombings, and the Red Sox’s unlikely road to the championship was the backdrop of the grieving and caring citizenry that reached out for one another in the wake of the attacks.

“A lot of people made the comment, ‘Oh, man, you guys really put the city on your back,’” said Peavy, looking down on his arms. “I’m…