Miss the giant CITGO sign in Boston? You may need to come to Worcester

If you miss the giant CITGO sign near Fenway Park in Boston, travel west to Worcester’s Polar Park to find a familiar red triangle and white square.

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Looming above the outfield of the Worcester Red Sox’s home stadium is the new CITGO sign that was added in April 2026. The addition of the sign at the stadium is Worcester’s answer to the 60-by-60-foot CITGO sign that stands in Boston’s Kenmore Square just outside Fenway Park.

The Boston sign was taken down in May to be refurbished and relocated to a new home at 660 Beacon St. in Kenmore Square.

The Worcester sign is smaller than the Boston sign, only 14 by 14 feet, according to Jack Verducci, the Worcester Red Sox’s senior vice president of corporate partnerships.

Despite it’s size, the sign still has the company’s famous white square, red triangle and blue letters that spell CITGO.

Verducci said plans to have a CITGO sign at Polar Park go as far back as 2021. In 2024, Olga Hernandez, a regional marketing manager at CITGO, became interested in the idea, and discussions began in earnest, Verducci said.

In 2026, CITGO decided to sponsor the Worcester Red Sox for a five-year deal. As part of the deal, the company paid for and installed a CITGO sign in the outfield of the ballpark, according to Verducci.

“It’s not just an outfield sign in a ballpark that you have to be in the ballpark to see,” Verducci said. “It’s got a pretty nice vantage point from the rest of the city too.”

Once CITGO stops sponsoring the franchise, the sign will no longer be at Polar Park, according to Verducci. Discussions between the Worcester Red Sox and CITGO, however, envision the sign staying at the park more than five years, he said.

“With ours, it was really just, ‘hey this works so great in Boston,’” Verducci said. “It’s a part of the fabric of New England. So it’d be great to have our own too.”

The view from Fenway Park on June 16, 2026 of the missing CITGO sign as it undergoes construction.Hadley Barndollar

The Worcester Red Sox aren’t the only Boston Red Sox affiliate with a CITGO sign.

Hadlock Field, the stadium of Boston’s Double-A affiliate the Portland Sea Dogs, has their own CITGO sign. In 2003, the stadium added a CITGO sign and its own version of “the Green Monster” — a 37-foot-tall green wall known as the Maine Monster, according to the Portland Sea Dogs website.

All three Red Sox locations have a CITGO sign, with the Boston location being the largest and the Portland sign being the smallest at 12 by 12 feet, according to Verducci.

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