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Clutch Down the Stretch
A Season for the Ages
David Americo Aria Ortiz (Big Papi)
With those scurrilous Yankees breathing their bad Bronx breath down our Red Sox’ necks, our own Big Papi has been putting on a show for the ages. David Ortiz, proclaimed the “greatest clutch hitter ever” by many, including such luminaries as the Red Sox ownership trifecta, who, Gordon Edes of the Boston Globe claims, recently presented him with a wall hanging claiming such, bats cleanup for the Sox and is in the process of rewriting the Red Sox record book for power hitters and has already done so for clutch hitters.
In doing so, Big Papi has come up big when we needed him most. (He is so beautiful. . . to me.) In this crucial month of September, David Americo Aria Ortiz begets comparisons to another who once famously wore red sox, George Herman Ruth, The Babe.
The Patended Papi Flip
Papi has hit 10 home runs and driven in 22 runs in September, so far, and 8 of those home runs and 17 of those RBIs have come in the last nine games when many of his teammates were plagued by slumps or injuries.
Jimmy Foxx holds the record for most home runs in red sox, clubbing 50 in ‘38’.
Big Papi hit his 45th and 46th home runs last night, and the Red Sox have 11 games remaining on their regular season schedule.
David Ortiz is having a season for the ages and we are lucky to be here to witness it.
It may very well come down to those last three games of the season against the Bronx Bombers who at this moment are a paltry ½ game behind the first place Sox, for all practical purposes a statistical dead heat.
Stay tuned.
* Photos from Boston Globe.
John Twomey
Posted at September 21, 2005 12:03 PM