Fans at Fenway Park stuck around after the Cleveland Indians completed a three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox on Monday night, cheering for the retiring David Ortiz.

Chants of "Papi! Papi!" went on for nearly 15 minutes before Ortiz emerged from the clubhouse to take in the scene.

"I definitely always want to show love to the fans," Ortiz said. "I started thinking, I have my moment once I walk onto the mound, start looking around. And that moment, that hits you. You know you're never going to be able to be performing in the baseball world in front of all this. No disrespect to anyone, but I think we have the best fans worldwide. It's something that, it kind of hit me a little bit -- I'm not going to lie to you."

Ortiz knew his career would come to an end, but he didn't know it would be so sudden. The Red Sox won 93 games and the American League East, but struggled against the Indians.

"What made me happy and proud about walking home the way I am right now is that as long as I play in front of these fans, I never take anything for granted," Ortiz said. "I give everything I have, do something special while I play. And the fans respect that. The fans love that. The fans, they live through it. And that's all that matters to me.

"And everywhere I go, everywhere I bump into our fans, it doesn't matter if you bump into two of them or you bump into a thousand of them. They show the same love. And that's why I got better, that's why I got the opportunity to have the career that I had."