Take me out to the ballot box, yes, at Fenway Park

Bostonians who lined up at the nation’s oldest ballpark on Saturday were far more focused on the ballot box than the batter’s box, according to The Associated Press.

Hundreds of people cast their votes at Fenway Park, which city officials are using as an alternative to indoor venues during the pandemic.

Voter Rob Cohen said he’s a 3-minute walk from his nearest polling location but he chose to take a 20-minute bus ride and then stand in line 45 minutes to cast his vote at the storied ballpark.

“It was two things I like a lot — democracy and baseball,” the diehard Red Sox fan said after his first and only visit to the park this year.

Fenway Park was one of 10 locations across Boston where residents could cast their votes on Saturday, when early voting began across the state. Early voting in the state will run through Oct. 30, but Fenway Park is being used only for this weekend as an early voting location.

The ballpark provided a unique experience compared with the other voting venues across Massachusetts.

“This is the first time we’ve ever done early voting or opened up Fenway Park for any kind of voting in the city of Boston, so we’re really excited to be partners with the city on this,” said Red Sox spokeswoman Zineb Curran.

Voters got a glimpse of the field after filling out their ballots in the concourse and exiting on Lansdowne Street.

Trivia question

On this date in 1977, Reggie Jackson hit three straight home runs against the Dodgers, as the Yankees won the World Series in six games with an 8-4 victory. The Yankees actually trailed 2-0 in Game 6 until another Yankee hit a two-run homer to tie it. Who hit it?

They said it

• From Dwight Perry of The Seattle Times: “Attention, Dan Mullen (the Florida football coach who wanted to “see 90,000 (fans) in The Swamp” for the LSU game — only to have to postpone it because so many of his players tested positive for COVID-19): Your Karma of the Year Award awaits you down at the front desk. A gentle reminder: Just be sure when you come to pick it up you’re wearing a mask.”

• From Bob Molinaro in the Norfolk Virginian-pilot, on Sunday’s Giants-washington matchup pitting teams with a combined 1-9 record: “Chances are very good that one team will win the titanic clash … But it’s hard to see how.”

• From ex-columbus Dispatch sportswriter Todd Jones, via Twitter, while watching the four-ot Texas-oklahoma game on Fox: “Imagine if Gus Johnson called the Apollo 11 moon landing.”

Trivia answer

Oceanside High product Chris Chamblis hit the two-run homer off Dodgers starter Burt

Hooten in the second inning. Jackson’s three homers came on the first pitch he saw from Hooten in the fourth inning, Elias Sosa in the fifth, and Charlie Hough in the eighth. Jackson drove in five and was the World Series MVP.