Saturday was a whirlwind day for Marcelo Mayer, who found out he was being called up for his MLB debut just a few hours before the game was scheduled to begin. That made it impossible for his family to make the cross-country flight from southern California,

Unlike the chaos of his debut on Saturday, Red Sox phenom Marcelo Mayer had a chance to get settled on Sunday. And with his family on hand to watch him play in the Majors for the first time, Mayer cam

While the first hit is always special, it was made even more so for Mayer because his family was in attendance at Fenway Park. With very little notice prior to his debut on Saturday, they took a red-eye flight from California to get to Boston time for Mayer’s second MLB game.