Boston Red Sox defeat Seattle Mariners, 7-6

This was all new to him, the visitor from Southern California said, this quirky regional holiday known as Patriots Day (''Got to have something to do with the Revolution, right?"), a ballgame that started before lunchtime and a walkoff home run by his son, Mark Loretta, who in nearly three decades of playing baseball -- Little League, high school, Northwestern, the big leagues -- never had ended a game like this.

''I just asked him right now," Dave Loretta said, moments...

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