The Red Sox took to the field on Sunday and though they lost the opener and dropped the nightcap, Jonny Gomes made headlines by dedicated the game to victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.

An idea created and developed by his agent, Gomes went to the plate his first two at-bats and alternated one of two specially made bats with the words "Boston Strong" on them and the full names of the four bombing victims. Krystle Campbell, Lu Lingzi, and Martin Richard were killed in the explosions on April 15 at the marathon, and MIT police officer Sean Collier was shot to death on April 18 by one of the bombing suspects.

A photo of the bat was posted on Twitter by Will Middlebrooks.

"It wasn't me. It was my agent," Gomes said, after Boston's 4-2 loss in the first game against Kansas City. "He asked me if I was able to pull it off, would I be able to do it. He made it happen."

The MLB player said he plans on auctioning off the bats.

New York Daily News reported that the Red Sox gave "several hundred tickets" to Watertown residents for the afternoon game following the end of the manhunt for one of the bombing suspects, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. On Saturday, Fenway held its first game since the marathon bombings and Neil Diamond surprised the crowed with a live performance of Sweet Caroline.

More than 140 were injured by the explosions at the marathon April 145. The police identified two suspects in connection to the incident: brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tamerlan was killed April 18 while partaking with his brother in a shootout with police. Dzhokhar fled the scene but was captured by authorities on April 19 with serious injuries.

Watch Diamond perform at Fenway Park in the video below.