ALDS Game 3: Indians 4, Red Sox 3

INDIANS 4, RED SOX 3

End of a season, end of an era

David Ortiz saluted the fans after Monday?s loss. It was Ortiz?s last major-league game.

John Tlumacki/Globe staff

The Red Sox? season ? and David Ortiz?s career ? ended with a Game 3 loss to the Indians at Fenway Park.

David Ortiz ended his great career on the Red Sox bench, alongside manager John Farrell (right).

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

This was a bad ending for a good team

The Sox? ignominious sweep no doubt will crank up the ?Fire Farrell? bandwagon.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/11/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davis_cb19_spts.jpg Watch: David Ortiz bids farewell to Fenway fans

After letting the Indians celebrate their ALDS victory, Ortiz returned to the field to tip his cap.

Boston, MA - 10-10-16 - ALDS Game 3 - Fenway Park - Fans celebrate David Ortiz as he comes off the field for a pinch runner in the 8th inning. (John Tlumacki/Globe staff)

In final plate appearance, David Ortiz gave Red Sox a chance

The retiring slugger drew a walk to help continue a Red Sox rally that ultimately fell short.

10/10/16: Boston, MA: The Red Sox Xander Bogaerts can't believe the line drive he hit in the bottom of the 8th innng was caught for the final out of the frame, and neither can a fan at lower left. Indians catcher Roberto Perez (center) is happy about it though. The Boston Red Sox hosted the Cleveland Indians in Game Three of their ALDS baseball series at Fenway Park. (Globe Staff Photo/Jim Davis) section: sports topic: Red Sox-Indians

Alex Speier | Instant Analysis

A once-unstoppable team took a drastic U-turn

After a season of offensive heroics, the Red Sox were shockingly cold at the plate in the postseason.

Peter Abraham

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/09/29/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davis_ortiz1_spts-10134.jpg One final season

From spring training to the playoffs, Globe Red Sox beat writer Peter Abraham documented key moments from David Ortiz?s last season on the field.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/10/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/kenbone.vadapt.980.high.43-10460-U824207527748L9F--90x90@BostonGlobe.com.jpg Joe Kelly offers free Red Sox tickets to debate questioner Kenneth Bone

Red Sox pitcher Joe Kelly offered free tickets to tonight?s game to Ken Bone, who was an online hit after his question to the candidates in Sunday?s debate.

Finnish Professor Bengt Holmstrom of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology smiles as he departs a news conference after speaking to members of the media, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, on the campus of MIT in Cambridge, Mass. The Nobel Memorial Prize in economic sciences was awarded Monday to Oliver Hart and Holmstrom, who will share the prize. The Nobel jury praised the winners

Associated Press

Harvard, MIT scholars share Nobel in economics

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom were honored for their contributions to contract theory.

Patriots 33, Browns 13

Oct 9, 2016; Cleveland, OH, USA; New England Patriots tight end Martellus Bennett (88) moves the ball in for a touchdown during the first quarter against the Cleveland Browns at FirstEnergy Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

Threat of run opened up Patriots? passing attack

A couple of Tom Brady?s biggest throws Sunday were disguised as runs, and the Browns paid dearly.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/10/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/tom%20and%20giselle.jpg Tom Brady wasn?t a fan of those nude sunbathing photos

Brady called the photos that caught him laying on a chair in Italy ?a little invasive.?

Trump keeps campaign alive, but remains isolated

ABRIDGE, PA - OCTOBER 10: Republican candidate for President Donald J Trump greets supporters at a rally at Ambridge Area Senior High School on October 10, 2016 in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Ambridge, Pennsylvania, named after the American Bridge Company, a steel fabricating plant that employed 60,000 workers is a traditionally Democratic stronghold, but is shifting Republican as a shrinking tax base and lost jobs having devastating economic effects on the former industrial community. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

House Speaker Paul Ryan all but abandoned Donald Trump, obliterating whatever bounce he may have received from Sunday?s debate.

Kevin Cullen

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/11/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/cullen-11605.jpg A campaign that just doesn?t get it

The erosion of the middle class is the background music to the most dispiriting presidential campaign in history.

09/24/2016 -Manchester, NH- U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks at a Manchester

Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff

Leaked e-mails show Clinton was worried about Warren

Hillary Clinton?s campaign tried to open communication with Elizabeth Warren before Clinton announced her bid and later worried that Warren might endorse Bernie Sanders.

From left: Donald Trump, Billy Bush, and actress Arianne Zucker in a screenshot from the controversial 2005 video.

NBC has suspended Billy Bush. But will he ever come back?

In the hours after the video was published, a flood of commenters and ??Today?? show viewers took to social media to declare that Bush should be fired.

BOSTON, MA - 10/06/2016: Rally for Question 5 local ballot referendum. Mayor Walsh and others rallying in support of Community Preservation Act for Boston. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff Photo) SECTION: METRO TOPIC07preservation

Support builds for tax hike in Boston to boost housing

The funding mechanism failed in 2001. What a difference 15 years can make in Boston?s housing market.

An image from video provided by WCAX-TV showed the crash scene on Interstate 89 in Williston, Vt., early Sunday.

WCAX-TV/AP

In Vermont, deaths of 5 teens are a devastating blow

In Moretown, Vt., nearly everyone seemed to have known the students killed in a wrong-way driver crash Saturday night.

State Auditor Suzanne Bump embraced her husband Paul McDevitt in June 2016 after she read a speech at the Paraclete Center

After husband dies, state auditor takes over his business

Suzanne Bump now runs the addiction therapy company her recently deceased husband ran. What are the implications for the elected officer?

NAMES

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/10/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/Boghosian_springsteen5_LIFE.jpg Fans flock to Harvard Square to meet the Boss

Just 1,000 fans, like Briana Bianchini, scored tickets to the event. ?This is the highlight of 2016,? she said, trembling as she left the Coop.

Globe investigations

The desperate and the dead

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight9090-11856.jpg The broken covenant

Behind the fragmented state of mental health care lies a political system failure that spans decades ? and continues.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/11/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight-9497.jpg Boston Globe coverage and the movie ?Spotlight?

?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

The Big Picture

Trees sway from heavy rain and wind from Hurricane Matthew in front of Exploration Tower early Friday, Oct. 7, 2016 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Matthew weakened slightly to a Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds near 120 mph, but the U.S. National Hurricane Center says it's expected to remain a powerful hurricane as it moves closer to the coast. (Craig Rubadoux/Florida Today via AP)

Craig Rubadoux/Florida Today via AP

Hurricane Matthew

The most powerful Atlantic storm in nearly a decade left a path of destruction over the Caribbean and the US.