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Hanley Ramirez ran away from his teammates after walking off the Red Sox home opener

Although Fenway Park was abuzz on Thursday afternoon for the Red Sox home opener, the crowd didn't have much to cheer about through the first eight innings. The Rays shut the Red Sox out until the ninth, but the game wasn't over just yet.
A two-run rally off Alex Colomé tied the game, and after battling for three more innings, the Red Sox sent the fans home happy with a walk-off in the bottom of the 12th. Hanley Ramirez was the hero, crushing a Ryan Yarbrough pitch to the right-center-field wall to score Jackie Bradley Jr. and the Red Sox won, 3-2.
After driving home the winning run, Ramirez went on, well, a winning run:

Ramirez's Red Sox teammates simply wanted to mob him, but he had some fun with them first. The best part of any chase is the pursuit, and he knows it.
Ramirez also had other motives -- he didn't want to get any water sprayed or dumped on him. "I don't want that. It was too cold," he said to MLB.com's Ian Browne. "But when you win, anything is fine.
The run helped, too. "That warmed me up a little, that sprint right there," he said.
Don't worry, though -- he let them catch him to celebrate:

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