According to several reports throughout the last two seasons, including most recently, Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe, the Red Sox were frustrated with Devers' refusal to do po

Brayan Bello, his good friend and now-former teammate, provided a fastball on the outer third of the plate in the bottom of the third inning. Devers, as he did so many times across nine seasons with the Red Sox, launched it the other way to left field.