David Ortiz Hits Home Run In Final At Bat Of Grapefruit Masslive

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — In his final spring training at-bat, David Ortiz hit his first home run of the spring in the Boston Red Sox’s 7-4 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Thursday. Ortiz announced on his 40th birthday in November that this will be his final season. He played in 342 Grapefruit League games in Fort Myers over 20 seasons with the Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox. With two outs in the fifth, Ortiz launched a ball over the right field wall. “Great,” Ortiz said of his home run.

“These are Fort Myers fans that support the Twins, support the Red Sox and I’ve been here for a while. I bet you a lot of these people watched me playing when I played for the Miracles down here. I’m pretty sure they’re super happy with how my career has gone. You see a kid start and 20 years later, you see his career and being the way it has been, and then you get to see his last spring training game, and it’s something... Ortiz struck out to end the first inning and grounded out to end the third before his home run. Boston Red Sox's David Ortiz (34) follows through on a ground-out with the bases loaded as Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Francisco Cervelli watches in the fifth inning of an interleague spring training baseball game, Monday,...

(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) David Ortiz ended the Florida portion of spring training with a bang on Thursday. In Oritz's final at-bat in Boston's Grapefruit League finale against the Minnesota Twins on Thursday, Ortiz launched a shot to right field. It marked his first homer of the spring. Boston's last game at JetBlue Park came on Tuesday when the team and city of Fort Myers honored Ortiz. Thursday's game was at Hammond Stadium, a few miles down the road from JetBlue Park, so Ortiz's homer made a fitting goodbye to the Fort Myers faithful.

The Red Sox play two exhibition games this weekend in Montreal against the Toronto Blue Jays. Send this article to your social connections. Send this article to your social connections. On Thursday, the Red Sox played the Twins at Hammond Stadium, the site of David Ortiz’s first ever spring training game just over 20 years ago. And the 40-year-old designated hitter went out with a bang, homering in his final Grapefruit League at-bat. https://twitter.com/GustanDeportes/status/715612034738622464

In a Ted Williams-like moment (OK, not so much), Ortiz homered in his final spring training at-bat in Florida. 1st this year. The farewell tour of David Ortiz continued to take shape on Thursday when the Boston Red Sox slugger said his goodbye to spring training baseball in Florida forever. "Big Papi" made sure to leave his mark on the more than 7,000 in attendance at CenturyLink Sports Complex by taking Minnesota Twins starter Kyle Gibson deep into the right-field stands for his first... Ortiz - who is set to retire at the end of the 2016 campaign - enters his 20th season in the bigs, having already hit 503 regular-season long balls. "I know what it takes to be around the bag.

I know what you need to do. I don't want to be a full-time DH. I'm not just going to tell him (Terry Francona) that I want to play first base more, I'm going to show him that I'm very interested." - Ortiz, Ortiz. The Sports Network. 4 February 2004. David Ortiz Career Home Runs | Research by Baseball Almanac

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