The wait is over! After 149 at bats (135 in 2009), last night David Ortiz hit his first home run since September 22, 2008. The shot to center field put an end to the longest home run drought of Big Papi's major league career and certainly takes a giant monkey off the back of the Red Sox DH. Ortiz had hit 230 home runs in his first 6 seasons with the Sox, including a franchise record 54 in 2006. But after hitting only 23 last year (in 109 games) he had yet to go deep in 2009 despite playing in 34 of Boston's first 39 games. The homer caused jubilation in the Sox dugout, a standing ovation from the Fenway faithful, and a curtain call from Ortiz. The Red Sox went deep 5 times last night, but clearly none was as important as the one Ortiz knocked out in the 5th off Brett Cecil. Although he still has quite a way to go before anyone is ready to say the old Ortiz has returned, let's hope last night's shot was only the start of many more to come for Big Papi in '09 and beyond.
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What made this extra special for me was how bad he had looked in his previous at bat, striking out almost embarrassingly on 3 pitches.
It was nice to see him smiling again.
would it be satisfactory if he ends up being a .300 hitter with 10 HRs this year? I say no question about it if Youk, Lowell, Bay combine for 85 HRs
It looks like the latest round of PEDs have finally kicked in. Let's hope the female hormones don't show up on the drug tests.
I liked that it went to dead center and assured all that it would have been gone anywhere.
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