David Ortiz Homers In Final Spring Training At Bat Red Sox Lose 7 4

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-Nov 18, 2025, 8:42 AM

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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. FORT MYERS, Fla.

— 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, Fla., over 20 seasons with the Twins and Red Sox. With two outs in the fifth, Ortiz launched a ball over the right field wall. [mlbvideo id=”569037683″ width=”640″ height=”358″ /] Two batters earlier, Twins center fielder Byron Buxton sprinted backward and dove to catch Josh Rutledge’s drive to the warning track for an out.

David Ortiz's last at bat in Florida, in Spring Training, was one he'll remember, as will legions of Red Sox fans, as Big Papi homered. It was Ortiz's 1st homer of the Spring. The Red Sox ended up losing to the Twins by the score of 7-4, as reliever Tommy Lane was lit up in the 7th inning, as he gave up 5 earned runs on 4... Clay Buchholz pitched well in his final Spring Training start, going 4 innings, allowing 2 hits, 1 earned run on a homer and walked 2 and struck out 2. Buchholz is scheduled to pitch the 2nd game of the season against Cleveland on Wednesday, April 6th. Travis Shaw, named the starting 3rd Baseman on Thursday, March 31st was 1-2 scoring a run.

Pablo Sandoval was 0-2. The Red Sox have 2 more Spring Training games, against Toronto in Montreal, on Friday April 1st at 7 PM and Saturday, April 2nd at 1 PM. Those games and all 162 regular season games starting with Monday, April 4th's game at Cleveland will be broadcast on AM 1370 WDEA. Every professional athlete hopes to “go out on top” at the end of their career. No one likes to think of struggling through a final season and not being invited back, like a hypothetical baseball player putting up disappointing numbers and then wishing he had perhaps retired a year... When Ted Williams hit just .254 in 1959, the year he celebrated his 41st birthday, it was almost 100 points below his career .349 batting average to that point.

He came back – after insisting on a 30 percent pay cut from Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey because of his under-performance in 1959 – and boosted his average for 1960 to .316... That put him over 500, to 521. Then he retired.1 On November 18, 2015, his 40th birthday, another venerated Red Sox left-handed hitter, David Ortiz, announced he was going to play one more season and then retire.2 Unlike Williams in 1959, Ortiz’s production had... Ortiz had passed the 500-homer milestone, reaching 503 career home runs through 2015. In addition, Ortiz had three World Series championship rings with the Red Sox (2004, 2007, and 2013), a team accomplishment that had eluded Williams.

Ortiz’s decision to return in 2016 proved correct, on both individual and team levels. He had another successful year, leading the major leagues in doubles (48), slugging percentage (.620) and on-base percentage plus slugging (OPS) (1.021), while topping the American League with 127 RBIs. By the time Boston hosted the Toronto Blue Jays at Fenway Park in the final three games of the 2016 season, the Red Sox had already clinched the AL East title, a rebound from... The final weekend began with the Friday night game on the last day of September. A day earlier, the New York Yankees had honored their longtime rival and his family at Yankee Stadium, with both Ortiz’s wife and daughter receiving floral bouquets. This is an accepted version of this page

David Américo Ortiz Arias (born November 18, 1975), nicknamed "Big Papi", is a Dominican-American former professional baseball designated hitter who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1997 to 2016, primarily for the... After playing parts of six seasons with the Minnesota Twins, Ortiz moved to the Red Sox, where he played a leading role in ending the team's 86-year World Series championship drought in 2004, as... In his first five seasons with the club, he averaged 41 home runs and 128 runs batted in (RBIs), leading the American League (AL) twice in the latter category and setting the team's single-season... Used almost exclusively as a DH during his 14 seasons with the Red Sox, he was a ten-time All-Star and a seven-time Silver Slugger winner, and became regarded as one of the greatest designated... He posted ten seasons each with 30 home runs and 100 RBIs, and batted .300 or better seven times. After a drop in his offensive numbers from 2008 to 2012, he enjoyed a strong resurgence in his last four seasons, and had one of his best years in his final campaign, leading the...

Upon his retirement, Ortiz ranked sixth in AL history with 541 home runs, fifth in doubles (632) and ninth in RBIs (1,768). Regarded as one of the greatest clutch hitters of all time,[2] he had 11 career walk-off home runs during the regular season and two during the 2004 postseason, the first of which clinched the... In 2022, Ortiz was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. David Américo Ortiz Arias was born on November 18, 1975, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, as the oldest of four children of Enrique (Leo) Ortiz and Ángela Rosa Arias. As a boy, he followed the careers of standout pitcher Ramón Martinez and his younger brother Pedro, attending games whenever he could and building a friendship with Pedro that would only grow over the... 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. FORT MYERS, Fla. — In his final at-bat, David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox hit his first home run of the spring Thursday in a 7-4 loss to the Minnesota Twins.

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 years with Minnesota and Boston. 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 (minor league) 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...

David Ortiz Homers In Final Spring Training At Bat Red Sox Lose 7 4

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