Growing up, Salazar rooted for Red Sox

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BOSTON — As a teenager growing up in Santo Domingo, Indians right-hander Danny Salazar followed one Major League team obsessively.

“In the Dominican, it was either the Yankees or the Red Sox,” Salazar said. “The Red Sox were my team.”

Salazar will make his second career start at Fenway Park on Sunday in the series finale. He’s thrived against the Red Sox in two career starts, going 2-0 with a 1.46 ERA. The right-hander faced the club in his final start of 2015, allowing one run on four hits in 5 1/3 innings in Cleveland.

“I love coming here. It is so different from all of the others. Every ballpark now looks the same,” Salazar said. “This one feels like a special …

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