Timeline: 2010-2019

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The year 2011 marked the end of the initial 10-year investment Red Sox ownership made in implementing major renovations and upgrades to Fenway Park, ensuring the ballpark's viability for generations to come. The cost of that commitment was an estimated $285 million, the largest investment in the history of the soon-to-be 100-year old ballpark (1912). The most dramatic change in 2011 was the installation of three state-of-the-art, high-definition video display and scoring systems, the largest of the three displays a 38-foot-high by 100-foot-wide screen in center field. The main display was flanked by smaller screens in left-center field and above the right-field bleachers. Other major work completed in 2011 included upgrades to the Gate D concourse and the repair, waterproofing and seat replacements of the lower seating bowl in right field, the culmination of the initiative to renovate the entire lower seating bowl begun in 2007.

For the first time since John W. Henry and Tom Werner purchased the club prior to the 2002 season, the Red Sox missed postseason play in consecutive seasons, despite winning 90 or more games for the 14th successive season. The Sox lost their first six games, their worst start since 1945, then rebounded to enter September with a 1 ½-game lead over the New York Yankees in the AL East and a nine-game advantage over the Tampa Bay Rays for the final playoff spot. But a 7-20 September, their .259 winning percentage the worst for September by a first-place team in major-league history, culminated with the Sox being eliminated from the postseason on the final day of the regular season.

Major changes followed, as the Sox parted ways with manager Terry Francona after eight seasons, and general manager Theo Epstein left shortly thereafter to become president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs. Epstein's assistant, Ben Cherington, was promoted to replace him, and Bobby Valentine was hired to manage the club.

Red Sox center-fielder Jacoby Ellsbury finished second in the AL MVP race to Detroit pitcher Justin Verlander. With 32 home runs and 39 stolen bases, Ellsbury became the first Sox player with at least 30 home runs and stolen bases in a season, and the 12th American Leaguer to accomplish that feat.

The Red Sox featured four of the top seven players in batting average in the AL in 2011: Adrian Gonzalez, Ellsbury, David Ortiz and Dustin Pedroia. In his first season with the Sox, first baseman Gonzalez had 75 extra-base hits, including 27 home runs and 45 doubles, and drove in a team-high 117 runs.

The 100th birthday of Fenway Park, the oldest remaining ballpark in the major leagues, was a focal point of the 2012 season. Fenway Park played host to its first major-league game on April 20, 1912, and 100 years to the day, more than 200 alumni converged on the ancient yet vibrant edifice to celebrate the occasion, a sellout crowd of 36,770 roaring its approval as so many familiar fan favorites strode across the diamond in a memorable pregame ceremony. The Red Sox, who had defeated the New York Highlanders, forebears of the current Yankees, 7-6 in Fenway's first game, fell to the Yankees, 6-2, in the anniversary game, with both teams outfitted in throwback uniforms. The day before the game, the Red Sox swung open Fenway's doors, allowing more than 54,000 visitors the free opportunity to explore the ballpark and enjoy exhibits expressly made for the occasion.

The birthday defeat foreshadowed what was a trying season for the Red Sox, who finished in last place for the first time since 1992. The club lost 93 games, their most defeats since the 1965 team lost 100 games. The season was the first under new general manager Ben Cherington, who dismissed manager Bobby Valentine the day after the season ended, but not before engineering an eight-player trade with the Los Angeles Dodgers in August in which the Sox cut ties with stars Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford and versatile infielder Nick Punto. The Red Sox also sent $250 million to the Dodgers as part of the deal, the largest cash transaction involving players in major-league history.

Following Valentine's departure, the club successfully negotiated with the Toronto Blue Jays to hire John Farrell as manager. Farrell was well known to the Sox, having served as pitching coach under former Sox manager Terry Francona from 2007 to 2010 before managing the Blue Jays for two seasons.

Fenway Park demonstrated its ongoing dynamism by hosting two iconic soccer franchises, Liverpool and AC Roma, who met in a friendly match in July; another round of Frozen Fenway, this time featuring collegiate and high school teams; and more concerts featuring some of the world's foremost musical artists, including Roger Waters and a return engagement by Bruce Springsteen.

The 2013 Red Sox season is best understood through the prism of the April 15th Boston Marathon bombing, in which two terrorists planted bombs at the finish line of the iconic race, killing three people and injuring 260 others. One Red Sox home game was postponed while Boston was in lockdown until the bombers were apprehended. In the interim, Red Sox players were instrumental in the promotion of "Boston Strong" as a rallying cry for the city, and in the team's first game at Fenway Park after play was resumed, Red Sox star David Ortiz memorably delivered a message of civic defiance ("This is our... city") that resonated throughout the region. On a daily basis for the balance of the season, Fenway Park, embracing its role as civic gathering place, honored first responders, medical professionals and survivors of the bombing.

Improbably, a team that had been accorded little chance of competing in the spring — GM Ben Cherington having acquired a handful of veterans supposedly on the downside of their careers — instead exceeded all forecasts. With newcomers Mike Napoli, Shane Victorino, Jonny Gomes, David Ross and Ryan Dempster playing pivotal roles, the Red Sox won 97 games, a stunning improvement of 28 wins from the year before, to win the AL East by 5 ½ games over the Toronto Blue Jays, then defeated the Rays, Tigers and Cardinals in the postseason to claim their third World Series title in 10 seasons. They became the first team since the 1991 Twins to go from worst in their division to winning the World Series the following season. In the finale, the Sox defeated the Cardinals, 6-1, closing out St. Louis in six games and winning a World Series at Fenway Park for the first time in 95 years. Ortiz, who hit a catalyzing grand slam in Game 2 of the ALCS, had a World Series performance for the ages, batting .688 (11 for 16), scoring seven runs and driving in six more.

Another summer of concerts was highlighted by a performance by Sir Paul McCartney, and the newest addition to the Fenway Park space was the Champions Club in the Big Concourse, used primarily as a pregame function space and for event rentals.

Duplicating World Series titles has proven to be an elusive feat in the 21st century — the last team to win back-to-back World Series titles were the New York Yankees (1999-2000) — and in 2014 the Red Sox were the latest team unable to repeat as champions. The Red Sox went in the opposite direction, finishing in last place in the American League East, 25 games behind division champion Baltimore, to become the first team to go from last (2012) to first (2013) to worst (2014) in major league history. Well out of contention by the trading deadline, the Sox traded pitcher Jon Lester, the second winningest left-hander in club history, and John Lackey, the winning pitcher in the deciding Game 6 of the World Series.

A new generation of Sox players surfaced, as the Sox used 19 rookies in 2014, a class headlined by Mookie Betts, Xander Bogaerts, Jackie Bradley Jr., and Brock Holt. It was the most rookies to debut for the Sox since 21 players made their debut in 1926.

Non-baseball highlights at Fenway Park included a return engagement by soccer powers Liverpool FC and AS Roma, another round of college and high school hockey in Frozen Fenway, and a star-studded concert lineup that included the Zac Brown Band and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Former Boston College baseball captain and star first baseman also brought his "Ice Bucket Challenge" — the extraordinarily successful initiative he began to raise money for ALS research — to Fenway Park, where Sox players doused front-office staff members with buckets of ice.

A changing of the guard took place in the Red Sox executive offices in 2015. Larry Lucchino, credited by owner John W. Henry for masterfully overseeing the day-to-day operations of the club since Henry's group took control in 2002 and won three World Series titles in a 10-season span, announced in August he was stepping down as the team's president and CEO and assuming an emeritus role after the season. Named to take Lucchino's place as club president was Sam Kennedy, a native of nearby Brookline who grew up within walking distance of Fenway Park and had distinguished himself early in his term with the Red Sox by helping in the creation of Fenway Sports Management, which grew from a startup to a world class sports marketing agency.

Sixteen days after Kennedy's promotion, the club announced that it had hired Dave Dombrowski, the architect of winning teams in Montreal, Florida and Detroit, as the team's president of baseball operations. Dombrowski's hiring led to the departure of Ben Cherington as the team's GM; in September, Cherington's assistant, Mike Hazen, was promoted to GM. In the midst of the transition, the Red Sox were shaken by the announcement on Aug. 14 by manager John Farrell that he had been diagnosed with cancer. Bench coach Torey Lovullo served as manager for the balance of the season.

On the field, the team finished in last place in the AL East for the third time in four years, and in consecutive seasons for the first time since they finished last in six straight seasons (1925-30). A moment worth celebrating came on Sept. 12, when David Ortiz hit the 500th home run of his career.

College football, a staple at Fenway Park through the '50s, returned in 2015 with the Shamrock Classic, in which the University of Notre Dame, serving as the "home" team, defeated Boston College, 19-16. Two high school football double-headers also were played, while teams from Dublin and Galway squared off in the Fenway Hurling Classic and Irish Festival.

Fenway Park added two distinctive new features: "The Kids Concourse" at Gate K, and on the suites level on the third-base line, the green initiative "Fenway Farms," whose vegetables and herbs are used throughout the ballpark, with additional produce donated to food banks in the region.

The Red Sox returned to the playoffs in 2016 by winning the American League East, giving star slugger David Ortiz a fitting sendoff in the final season of his 20-year, big-league career, 14 seasons of which were spent in a Sox uniform. The Sox were unable to get past the first round, losing three straight to the Cleveland Indians.

Ortiz, who long before had been proclaimed the greatest clutch hitter in Red Sox history by owner John W. Henry, was celebrated in three days of farewells at Fenway Park on the season's final weekend, when the state of Massachusetts named a bridge after him, the city of Boston renamed a street, and the ballclub retired his No. 34, among other honors. Ortiz completed his 10th season with 30 home runs and 100 RBIs, a club record. Another high achiever in 2016 was pitcher Rick Porcello, voted the American League's Cy Young Award winner after a season in which he went 22-4 with a 3.15 ERA.

Fenway Park added one of the most unique events it has ever hosted in January: Polartec Big Air, a skiing and snowboarding competition that required the construction of a 140-foot high, 430-foot long course that dwarfed the ballpark's light towers. The ballpark also presented its most ambitious concert slate to date, featuring 11 nights of performances by seven different acts, including Pearl Jam, Dead and Company, James Taylor and perennial favorite Billy Joel.

The Red Sox won back-to-back AL East titles for the first time since division play began in 1969, and did so with a 93-69 record that matched the year before. Once again, however, the team did not advance the first round of the playoffs, falling in four games to the Houston Astros, the eventual World Series winners. That failure to go deeper into October led to a managerial change, as the Red Sox replaced John Farrell with Alex Cora, who played for the Red Sox from 2004-07 and had served as Houston's bench coach. The Puerto Rican-born Cora became the first minority manager in club history and made it a condition of his employment that the Red Sox send a planeload of supplies to his hometown of Caguas, which had been ravaged by Hurricane Maria.

Left-handed pitcher Chris Sale, acquired from the Chicago White Sox in a trade for top prospects Yoan Moncada and Michael Kopech, flourished in his first season with the Red Sox, setting a club record with 308 strikeouts while winning 17 games. All-Star closer Craig Kimbrel, meanwhile, won five games and saved 35 others while posting a 1.43 ERA.

The Fenway Park concert series notched a historic first, as Lady Gaga became the first female artist to headline an event at Fenway Park. The Red Sox Foundation also staged the first Fenway Park marathon, eight New England universities sent their hockey teams to compete in the fourth Frozen Fenway, and Irish hurling made a return engagement.

Notable structural changes to Fenway Park included the expansion of both dugouts, a removable wall system added to the bullpens, and the addition of new seating between and beyond the dugouts.

The Red Sox became the first team in the 21st Century to win four World Series titles (2004, 2007, 2013, 2018), a dominating October postseason run following a historic regular season in which they won 108 games, breaking a club record that had stood since 1912, the year Fenway Park opened. In Alex Cora's first season as manager, the Red Sox won 17 of their first 19 games, reeled off a 10-game winning streak in July, and never lost more than three games in a row in finishing eight games ahead of the New York Yankees in the American League East. The third straight division title marked the first time in club history that the team finished in first place in three consecutive seasons.

Led by American League MVP Mookie Betts, the 11th time a Sox player was chosen MVP in voting by the Baseball Writers of America, the Sox led the majors in most major offensive categories. Betts won the AL batting title ahead of runner-up J.D. Martinez, who in his first season in a Red Sox uniform gave the team the middle-of-the-order presence it had lacked since David Ortiz retired after the 2016 season.

The Sox defeated the 100-win Yankees, the defending World Series champion Houston Astros, another 100-win team, and the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers, losing just once to all three teams before closing out the Dodgers in five games in Dodger Stadium. Cora, a native of Puerto Rico who became the first minority manager in club history, masterfully used all of his starting pitchers as what he called "rovers," coming out of the bullpen in vital relief appearances, culminating in left-handed ace Chris Sale striking out Manny Machado for the final out of the World Series.

In a marriage of iconic event and historic setting, the Harvard-Yale football game was staged at Fenway Park, the first time since 1894 the ancient rivals had met in a neutral setting. Harvard's Crimson scored 17 points in the fourth quarter to pull away from Yale's Bulldogs, 45-27; halftime ceremonies honored participants from both teams on the 50th anniversary of the rivalry's epic 29-29 tie, a game witnessed by Sox owner Tom Werner when he was a Harvard student.

The fan experience at Fenway Park was enhanced yet again with the addition of the Jim Beam Dugout Seats, constructed just beyond the first-base dugout and allowing fans sitting there the same on-field view as Red Sox players.

The defending champion Red Sox set a franchise record by hitting 245 home runs, but never spent a single day in first place and finished third, 19 games behind the New York Yankees in the American League East. It was the 19th straight season in which a World Series winner failed to repeat, the longest such streak in baseball history. Injuries to the team's starting rotation and 2018 World Series MVP Steve Pearce played a significant part in the team's fade. A bright spot was the emergence of 22-year-old third baseman Rafael Devers, who put up numbers not seen by a Sox player his age since Ted Williams.

In September, the Red Sox announced that they were firing president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski, who was in his fourth season with the club. In October, the club announced the hiring of former Tampa Bay Rays executive Chaim Bloom, 36, as chief baseball officer, and subsequently promoted assistant general manager Brian O'Halloran to general manager.

On June 29-30, the Red Sox and Yankees became the first major league teams to play games in Europe, the Yankees winning both games of the London Series, played in London's Olympic Stadium. Both games were played in front of sellout crowds in excess of 59,000 fans.

The Red Sox added yet another event to its extensive non-baseball repertoire at Fenway Park: The Red Bull Crashed Ice competition, in which four skaters, competing shoulder to shoulder, raced down a winding 2,000-foot course, achieving speeds of 50 miles an hour while making their way down a steep downhill frozen track. Liverpool's famed soccer team played another friendly, this team against Sevilla FC, and the Fenway Marathon returned to benefit the Red Sox Foundation.