There were a lot of firsts at Fenway Park Tuesday night.
The evening marked the initial meeting between the Red Sox and another team during this version a Major League Baseball season, taking on the Blue Jays at Fenway Park. There was fake crowd noise, no crowd (except for a few cardboard cutouts in left field) and baseball being played with masked men hovering in both dugouts.
Just don't have the same ring to it --
— Carly Tefft (@CarlyTefft) July 22, 2020And then came the introduction to the bottom of the eighth inning.
As is the case with any home Red Sox game, the conclusion of the visitors half of the frame means one thing: the playing of Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline," accompanied by a 30,000-person sing-a-long.
This time? There was still the song. But this time, that was it.
'Sweet Caroline' is on its own pic.twitter.com/PbsgYMfHO6
— Rob Bradford (@bradfo) July 22, 2020The scene elicited some unique emotions from those fans who otherwise might be sitting those seats, singing along ...
Funny and sad at the same time! In the 1967 words of Jim Morrison, "Strange Days have found us!" https://t.co/VbrwgveJjr
— Marc DeLorenzo (@MarcDeLorenzo) July 22, 2020Creepy https://t.co/HsBdYXIzId
— Andrew Ba Tran (@abtran) July 22, 2020A true post-apocalyptic vibe. https://t.co/STzES2ipeh
— Amy Derjue (@derjue) July 22, 2020This is so upsetting -- https://t.co/iUcPLg9y6o
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) July 22, 2020I am equal parts sad and disturbed https://t.co/seNavZDgr2
— Gabrielle (@gfstarr1) July 22, 2020Depressing content warning. https://t.co/z21TbLdguS
— Nicholas Mott (@Mottslayer) July 22, 2020Just when I thought Sweet Caroline couldn't get any worse, 2020 happens https://t.co/4roePNZxXY
— Blake (@BostonBlakeTBH) July 22, 2020Just don't have the same ring to it --
— Carly Tefft (@CarlyTefft) July 22, 2020



