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Video Ortiz Bids Adieu With Hr In Final Spring At Bat

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video ortiz bids adieu with hr in final spring at bat

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. 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.

Related Topics: David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park, Axilla, List of American League pennant winners, Boston, World Series BOSTON—They knew it was coming, but they didn’t know when. David Ortiz had long ago announced that this, his 14th season with the Red Sox, would be his last, and despite the fact that he’d somehow produced one of his finest years—a .315 batting... But Boston fans couldn’t be sure which would prove his final game. They had every reason to imagine it would come several weeks from now, perhaps even in early November in the World Series, as the Red Sox were considered the favorite to win the American... 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. David Ortiz’s career is nearing an end, although the white-hot Boston Red Sox hope the designated hitter’s stay with them extends through late October. Ortiz announced his intentions to retire at the end of the 2016 season before the campaign began, and that has turned it into a big retirement party.

Teams across baseball have showered Ortiz with gifts all season, and Major League Baseball did its part Friday with a nice highlight video celebrating the slugger’s career. MLB pushed this 30-second video send-off, with a perfect tagline celebrating one of the most clutch hitters in baseball history. [mlbvideo id=”1178211783″ width=”640″ height=”360″ /] Nine regular-season games remain in Ortiz’s career, but if the Red Sox continue to play well — Boston has eight wins in its last 10 games, and its magic number to win the AL... 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. 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. The Red Sox opened the scoring in the third when Jackie Bradley Jr. led off with a walk and scored when Xander Bogaerts grounded into a double play.

Boston's Hanley Ramirez hit his second home run of the spring.

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