BOSTON -- Pesky Pole homers are rare as it is. There are maybe a handful of them each season. The man the pole is named after – the late Johnny Pesky -- hit all of six home runs in his career, and there’s no official record of how many of them were hit into that odd corner that is 302 feet from home plate.

However, Trevor Story ’s Pesky special -- which helped the Red Sox to a 6-4 victory over the Guardians in Monday’s matinee at Fenway Park -- might go into a quirky class all of its own.

Confusion dominated when Story’s fly ball down the line in the bottom of the sixth inning was pursued by Guardians right fielder Jhonkensy Noel. As Noel reached over the short wall to try to catch it, the ball hit his glove, clanged off the pole, hit his glove a second time and then hit a fan.

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