Just two days after returning to the lineup, David Ortiz is out again -- this time, possibly for the year.
David Ortiz Hits 15-Day DL With Heel Injury
Ortiz is a pending free agent, so there’s a chance, albeit unlikely, that Friday’s game was the last of his Red Sox career. With the Red Sox continuing to struggle, there probably isn’t going to be a tremendous urge to rush Ortiz back out on the field, so at the very least, it’s likely that he’s played his last game of the season.
Ortiz is currently hitting .318/.415/.611 with 23 homers on the season.
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… he aggravated the injury after hitting a double in the third inning. With 34 games left in a lost season, it doesn’t make much sense for the free agent-to-be to risk further damage.
“We’re talking about (shutting it down) because I just can’t really play like this. I don’t want to be thinking about my foot while I’m facing the opposition, which is what happened to me after I hit that double the other night,” Ortiz said. “My last two at-bats, instead of just focusing on seeing the ball and hitting, I’m thinking about how much is it going to react once I take off running. We’re talking to the doctors and we’re going to have some decisions . . . or whatever just to see how we’re going to approach this.”
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