Archer has a 7.29 ERA in seven career starts at Fenway. "It's going to change how people relate to the team but also to each other a little bit," Gondelman said. Pomeranz (15-5) went six innings and allowed two runs on two hits with two walks and seven strikeouts.

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In some ways, the emotional volatility of the Betts trade, which included a false start as a three-team deal before becoming a straight-up swap between the Red Sox and L.A., prepared many fans for the emotions that would come when Brady posted his goodbye to Instagram. For the first time in 20 years, Brady will not be the Pats' quarterback, marking the end of an era in a city whose primary cultural claim to fame the past two decades has been the success of its sports teams.

“We’re seeing just tremendous defensive plays. “Once it starts coming down, they get out of the way,” Betts said. Among the multiple MVPs who have played their final games for a team in the same city within the span of a year, according to the Elias Sport Bureau, are Hall of Famers Ryne Sandberg and Michael Jordan in Chicago, and Wayne Gretzky and Magic Johnson in Los Angeles. “I’m out there trying to make pitches and our defense is so good out there behind me,” Pomeranz said. It's so stupid because somebody was winning the World Series and Super Bowl and the Stanley Cup all of those years, but it was like a weird thing, not in a self-pitying way, but it didn't occur to me that you could be on the side that wins," Gondelman said.

Before Brady, Boston sports fans hadn't celebrated a championship among their four local teams since the Celtics in 1986. "People are going to have to learn the new thing and the next thing.

In what has been a season of inconsistent offensive performance, Betts remains one of the top 10 players in the league as defined by WAR and other advanced statistical measures. The departure of Brady, who owns six Super Bowl rings, comes less than two months after Mookie Betts, the second-most popular athlete in town, was traded away by the Red Sox. with Brady and Mookie gone, Jayson Tatum takes the Crown of Beantown pic.twitter.com/Shp5Cj8TMZ. He then lined a three-run home run in the bottom of the inning that further propelled the Sox to a 9-3 victory against the Tampa Bay Rays.

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When the news broke Tuesday morning, "Mookie" began trending on Twitter along with "Brady" -- a linking of two athletes that marks a major transition in Boston sports. "If the Red Sox are in the World Series and you have a headline weekend at a local club, it's like you have to prepare for 50% attendance," Gondelman said. But Friday night offered a reminder just how valuable Betts can be to the Red Sox and where that could take them.

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"Both guys brought championships to the city in very key points of Boston's history," said Chris Suazo, 24, a project safety manager at a contracting firm in Hudson, Massachusetts.

“I knew I got it pretty good. Although I'm very sad to see them both go, I'm excited to see what's next. Nobody will ever have the same run that Brady had," Suazo said. "That's not to take anything away from the other hard-working Red Sox and Patriots players, but it's like the 'Fast and Furious' movies when Vin Diesel was gone for a little while. When Christian Vazquez followed with a sinking liner down the line in right, Steven Souza Jr. gave chase and caught the ball on a hop. The trade of Betts and the departure of Brady represents a rare but not unprecedented parting of a city with two of its icons in such a brief period. Nobody will ever have the same run that Brady had," Suazo said. The fans signaled it was a home run before umpire Quinn Wolcott did. If it’s anywhere in the vicinity, our guys are going to make the play.”.

His batting average will be significantly lower, as will his OPS. For the first time in 20 years, though, the most famous athlete in Boston will not be Tom Brady, and how that alters the city's relationship with its teams remains to be seen. With two outs and a runner on in the ninth inning, Kevin Kiermaier hit a ball deep to center. I couldn't even have imagined that happening even just a week ago, but here we are.". Facing the White Sox, he threw only seven pitches and two were hit for home runs. At the time, we thought that was the worst that could happen, but now it's actually Brady. With the title-less Pats an afterthought and the Bruins in a dry spell since 1972, there was little to be optimistic about. Benintendi followed with an RBI single and that ended the game for Archer (9-9). How we lose Brady & Mookie in one year, let alone one month? It permeates everything.". Tom Brady was a 20-year standing cultural reference and point of fascination in a way that it just won't be for the next quarterback of the Patriots. "On one level, I understand that these are adult humans making choices for their own lives and they are entitled to that, but when you become engaged and accustomed to someone being the face of the franchise, when that human face goes away, it's harder to engage with the franchise when they have meant so much to their cities and their teams," Gondelman said.

"It's really wild. "At least with Brady, there were reasons to expect it and it had built up for 20 years. For Boston sports fans, Brady was a symbol of a seismic shift, dating to his first Super Bowl title in 2002. “Mookie, he makes such an impact,” Red Sox manager John Farrell said. It was Betts’s first home run since Aug. 3 and only his second since the All-Star break. The Sox have won three straight. The first 15 years of my sports life were characterized by, 'You think you're better than me?' Meanwhile, chatter about the Curse of the Bambino dogged the Red Sox daily on sports talk radio. I can't imagine it ever feeling the same without him.".

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The departure of Brady, who owns six Super Bowl rings, comes less than two months after Mookie Betts, the second-most popular athlete in town, was traded away by the Red Sox. By those standards, Betts will have taken a step back.

"To grow up a New England sports fan in the time I grew up was to not know that things could be good, and I think Tom Brady's ascent was like, 'Oh, you can win.' That was the first of 12 championships by the city's four major pro teams since, including the 2004 World Series title won by the Red Sox to break an 86-year drought -- and another won by Betts' Red Sox in 2018.

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"To grow up a New England sports fan in the time I grew up was to not know that things could be good, and I think Tom Brady's ascent was like, 'Oh, you can win.' The sports world has seen so much change in the past week, as the coronavirus flips human existence on its head.

Pomeranz to that point had not allowed a hit.

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It pivoted right to, 'We think we're better than you.'". "Not in a fair-weather fan way, but so much of my connection to the team since I was a teenager was watching Brady play.

So who will be the next face of Boston sports? Kiermaier, a two-time Gold Glove winner in center field, tipped his cap.

Gondelman, who now lives in New York, grew up in Stoneham, Massachusetts, and attended Brandeis University in Waltham, said that comedians knew to expect a smaller crowd at Boston shows when the sports teams were in the middle of a playoff run, something that became a year-round experience. Many fans in Boston were still getting over the emotional void left by the 2018 AL MVP when they learned Brady would be gone, too. Many saw Betts as the torchbearer after Brady, but without him the spotlight could turn to Jayson Tatum or Jaylen Brown, rising young stars on the Celtics. …

With the Yankees losing in Texas, 11-5, the Red Sox now lead the American League East by 4½ games. Farrell has seen Betts adjust to a heavy diet of sliders by letting the ball get deeper.

Still, when Tom Brady announced he would not be returning to the New England Patriots, he sent shockwaves through Boston.

For Boston sports fans, Brady was a symbol of a seismic shift, dating to his first Super Bowl title in 2002.