BOSTON — Fernando Tatis Jr. is 27 years old, still capable of running 66 feet and leaping high enough to get most of his body on top of a five-foot wall to almost come away with a home run robbery.

He is just four years older than Marcelo Mayer, the Red Sox rookie whose home run sailed just beyond Tatis’ outstretched glove to seal his team’s 5-2 victory over the Padres on Friday.

Fernando Tatis Jr just missed that one and Marcelo Mayer has his first home run of the season!

(Via @RedSox) pic.twitter.com/UpU7fRpNlK

— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) April 3, 2026

But this will make Tatis feel a lot older:

“He’s a tremendous athlete, so he was one of my favorite players growing up,” said Mayer, who was born in Chula Vista and graduated from Eastlake High. “If he would have caught that, I probably would have changed my mind. But he’s a great player.”

Tatis held his thumb and index finger no more than two inches apart when asked how close he came to making the catch.

It really never should have been a question. The ball, hit 385 feet, was judged by Statcast as having been far enough to have been a home run in any of the major leagues’ 30 ballparks.

Tatis said he didn’t think he had a chance until he made the leap at the end.

Hitless no more

Luis Campusano might have been a hero if his RBI double in the fifth inning was not the Padres’ final hit of Friday’s game.

Nonetheless, the hit had an undeniable significance.

It was the Padres catcher’s first since Aug. 31, 2024, a span of 35 at-bats that comprised what was the major leagues’ longest active hitless streak.

“We can go now,” Campusano said. “It’d be nice if we had the win with it, but I think just for now, we just go.”

Campusano had grounded out in the third inning to fall to 0-for-6 this season.

In the fifth inning, with Gavin Sheets on first base and the Padres down 2-1, Campusano belted a full-count sinker 388 feet to left-center field, where it clanked off the Green Monster.

As he stood on second base, he said his first thought was, “Thank God.”

Still a fan favorite

Xander Bogaerts had been here before, but not like this.

The first time he returned to Fenway Park as a Padre, in 2024, Bogaerts was on the injured list. The Red Sox played a video tribute, and Bogaerts received a standing ovation before the first game of that series.

And on Friday, the cheers before his first at-bat in the top of the first inning were long enough that both plate umpire Chris Segal and Red Sox catcher Carlos Narvaez stepped away from the plate to allow a sellout crowd of 36,233 to show its appreciation.

The applause grew louder and louder as Bogaerts was announced, so much so that he had to take a step back from the plate, remove his helmet and tip toward all corners of the ballpark.

Xander Bogaerts gets a standing ovation in the first game he has played at Fenway since leaving the Red Sox 👏 pic.twitter.com/rF0ZAS1VJi

— MLB (@MLB) April 3, 2026

Bogaerts wondered before the game what the reception might be like.

“It’s been a couple years now,” Bogaerts said before the game. “So hopefully they still remember once they hear my name.”

They did. As if they would forget

Bogaerts was part of Boston’s World Series championship teams in 2013 and 2018. He also was a four-time All-Star and a five-time Silver Slugger before signing with the Padres in December 2022.

Bogaerts popped out to third base on the first pitch after his first-inning standing ovation and finished 0-for-4.

Change of plans

Inclement weather in Tulsa, Okla., shifted the rehab plans for reliever Jason Adam (quad) and starter Griffin Canning (Achilles) from Double-A San Antonio to Triple-A El Paso.

Adam was scheduled for back-to-back appearances on Friday and Saturday in Tacoma. He can come off the injured list as soon as Wednesday. Canning will start Game 1 of a doubleheader on Saturday at Tacoma. He’s continuing to build his pitch count after last throwing three simulated innings on Monday at low Single-A Lake Elsinore.