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Red Sox Honor David Ortiz Before Loss To Orioles Wmur

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Boston celebrated David Ortiz's two decades of spring training in Fort Myers with a pregame ceremony before his final home exhibition game, a 5-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Monday. Ortiz announced on his 40th birthday in November that this will be his final season. He trained in Fort Myers with the Minnesota Twins and the Red Sox. Ortiz went 0 for 3 and left after the sixth inning in a golf cart decorated with his number 34 and the flag of the Dominican Republic on its roof. The cart was driven by a pair of former Red Sox stars: Hall of Famer Jim Rice and Luis Tiant. Xavier Avery, Nolan Reimold and Francisco Pena homered for the Orioles, with Avery connecting on Rick Porcello's second pitch of the game.

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The Red Sox celebrated David Ortiz's two decades of spring training in Fort Myers with a pregame ceremony before his final home exhibition game, a 5-3 loss to the Orioles on Monday. Ortiz announced on his 40th birthday in November that this will be his final season. He trained in Fort Myers first with the Minnesota Twins and then since 2003 with the Red Sox. Ortiz went 0-for-3 and left after the sixth inning in a golf cart decorated with his number 34 and the flag of the Dominican Republic on its roof. The cart was driven by a pair of former Red Sox starts: Hall of Famer Jim Rice and Luis Tiant.

"Very nice, very nice," Ortiz said. "I've been coming to Fort Myers for a long time. To get to the point where you can get to say goodbye as a player, it's really good. "It's crazy. I wasn't expecting any of it but it happened. Whenever somebody comes to you with a gift, it's always welcomed, right?

The Red Sox and the city of Fort Myers, I really thank them for being so nice." BOSTON (AP) — The Red Sox asked their fans to imagine a world without David Ortiz, then spent the rest of the day reminding the city what he has meant to the franchise. Opening the festivities with John Lennon’s “Imagine” accompanying highlights from Ortiz’s career, the Red Sox celebrated their retiring designated hitter before Monday’s home opener. Then, the hero of three World Series titles came to the plate as the potential winning run in the ninth inning, only to hit into a double play. “Everybody’s hoping for the best at that point. Everybody’s confident he’s going to do what he’s always done,” said Mookie Betts, who hit a leadoff homer in the ninth to cut a three-run deficit to two.

“He put a good swing on it. They were just able to make a play.” Ortiz received a standing ovation when he was introduced before the game, with the public address announcer commending his “unforgettable and unrepeatable oratory” after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that was followed by the... Ortiz then stood along the first-base line while his 15-year-old daughter, Alex, sang the national anthem. Could the Red Sox be World Series contenders this year? John Tomase and Tom Giles believe it’s a possibility.

To this day, Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz takes great pleasure in the New York Yankees' demise. Ortiz was among those who watched the Yankees' collapse vs. the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday. New York took a 5-3 lead into the bottom of the ninth and watched it evaporate as shortstop Anthony Volpe botched a routine ground ball and ex-Red Sox outfielder Alex Verdugo misplayed a fly... Orioles stars Gunnar Henderson and Adley Rutschman joined Ortiz and the FOX Sports crew on Monday, giving Big Papi a perfect opportunity to revel in the Yankees' defeat. Subscribe to NBC Sports Boston's podcast network to hear our Insiders bring you the latest insights on your favorite teams!

The Red Sox have sucked at a lot of things in recent years, but one thing that they’ve always been great at is their pregame ceremonies. From the 100 years of Fenway ceremony, to the first game after the Boston Marathon tragedy, to honoring Pedro Martinez’s Hall of Fame induction this year, right up to David Ortiz’s 500th career home... Dr. Charles Steinberg is great at what he does, and the Red Sox sure know how to create memorable moments and tug at your heartstrings. It’s a weird feeling to watch this ceremony, knowing that it’s just about the end of the road for Ortiz’s playing days. Nothing kills me more than realizing that there will soon come a day when Ortiz will no longer be smashing home runs for the Boston Red Sox.

He’ll be 40 in November, which is about 45 in Dominican years, so we know that age will soon catch up to him, yet here he is at 39 years old with 35 bombs... I was doing great at ignoring the fact that he’s at the tail end of his career, until I watched this ceremony. Luckily, it was only a highlight reel of home runs, so I held it together. But when the day comes that Ortiz decides to hang up his spikes, and the Red Sox organize an even bigger ceremony for him, and show a highlight reel of all his big moments... But enough with the Debbie Downer shit. What’s this, like Pedro’s fourteenth pregame ceremony this year?

Next time the Red Sox decide that they want to finish in last place, they should just hire Pedro to take the mic before every game and say whatever he wants. Speaking of having the mic, they should’ve hooked our boy Marty Walsh up with some earplugs. The audio delay had him naming September 21, 2015 as Dyovid Ortiz Day, not David Ortiz Day, but I’ll cut him some slack on this one. I also enjoyed the five seconds of confusion when the driver’s side door opened on Ortiz’s car, trying to figure out who the guy was in the Red Sox jersey, but it was just... Totally caught me off guard. Also, gotta love Papi throwing some shade at the Rays’ dugout by calling them the Devil Rays.

Absolutely diabolical. Just no respect for that organization whatsoever, and rightfully so. BOSTON (AP) — The Red Sox asked their fans to imagine a world without David Ortiz, then spent the rest of the day reminding the city what he has meant to the franchise. Opening the festivities with John Lennon's "Imagine" accompanying highlights from Ortiz's career, the Red Sox celebrated their retiring designated hitter before Monday's home opener. Then, the hero of three World Series titles came to the plate as the potential winning run in the ninth inning, only to hit into a double play. "Everybody's hoping for the best at that point.

Everybody's confident he's going to do what he's always done," said Mookie Betts, who hit a leadoff homer in the ninth to cut a three-run deficit to two. "He put a good swing on it. They were just able to make a play." Ortiz received a standing ovation when he was introduced before the game, with the public address announcer commending his "unforgettable and unrepeatable oratory" after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that was followed by the... Ortiz then stood along the first-base line while his 15-year-old daughter, Alex, sang the national anthem. 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) — Boston celebrated David Ortiz’s two decades of spring training in Fort Myers with a pregame ceremony before his final home exhibition game, a 5-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Monday. Ortiz announced on his 40th birthday in November that this will be his final season. He trained in Fort Myers with the Minnesota Twins and then since 1993 with the Red Sox. Ortiz went 0 for 3 and left after the sixth inning in a golf cart decorated with his number 34 and the flag of the Dominican Republic on its roof. The cart was driven by a pair of former Red Sox starts: Hall of Famer Jim Rice and Luis Tiant. “Very nice, very nice,” Ortiz said.

“I’ve been coming to Fort Myers for a long time. To get to the point where you can get to say goodbye as a player, it’s really good. “It’s crazy. I wasn’t expecting any of it but it happened. Whenever somebody comes to you with a gift, it’s always welcomed, right? The Red Sox and the city of Fort Myers, I really thank them for being so nice.”

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