With his first homer as a Giant, a two-run, opposite-field shot, Devers powered San Francisco to a 3-2 win over the Boston Red Sox — the only major-league team Devers had known for more than a decade. In Boston, Devers blossomed into one of baseball’s best players. In San Francisco, the Red Sox can only watch their former star from afar.

The trade came after Devers and the Boston office butted heads over his role in the current season. The Red Sox signed Alex Bregman to a free-agent contract this past offseason, b

Brayan Bello, his good friend and now-former teammate, provided a fastball on the outer third of the plate in the bottom of the third inning. Devers, as he did so many times across nine seasons with the Red Sox, launched it the other way to left field.