Rafaela comes to Homer shorter in the statcast era in Fenway Park

Ceddanne Rafaela may be thanking his stars of luck, play his games at home in Fenway Park.

Rafaela used the Pesky post for his advantage on Wednesday afternoon to take his Boston Red Sox to a 11-9 victory over Los Angeles Angeles.

In the first launch he saw at the bottom of the novena, a fast 97 mph ball, Rafaela swing and flew by the right field line.

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But with the foul post only 302 feet of the plate, it was enough to be a two -run homer.

The ball traveled to only 308 feet, the shortest shot in the Statcast era (since 2015). Obviously, it would only have been a home run in Fenway.

The three shortest homers ever traced by Statcast have been in Fenway Park, and Rafaela’s taking is the third lower registered.

Brockton fans sit next to the annoying post during their game against Bridgewater-Raynham in Fenway Park on Wednesday, November 23, 2022. (Marc Vasconcellos / The Enterprise / USA Today Network)

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The Angels blew 4-0, 7-5, 8-7 and 9-8 cables, with Rafael Devers bouncing a helicopter among the gloves of the second base Chris Taylor and the Shortstop Zach Net behind the second base to link it 9-9 in the eighth.

The Angels moved to 28-33, while the Sox now have 30-34.

Each of the first three times that the red socks scored, Los Angeles responded with their own races. But after walking to Mike Trout to lead the ninth, Cooper Criswell (1-0) took the next three batters to give Boston the opportunity to walk.

The gardener of the Red Sox of Boston, Ceddanne Rafaela, hits a winning home run against Los Angeles de Los Angeles in the ninth entry in Fenway Park. (David Butler II-Imagn images)

The post, of course, bears the name of Johnny Pesky, who reached only 17 career homers, but six of them occurred around the post.