David Ortiz to his with a confident expression on his face.
David Ortiz strolled to his locker with a confident expression on his face. He joked - a sure sign his former batting ritual on the area since presence injured went well.
Ortiz has been on the disabled list since May 31 because of a partial tear of the sheath that surrounds the tendon in his left wrist. He hit a few long drives before the Red Sox played Minnesota on Monday night.
” I feel good,” he said in the Red Sox . “Great.”
When a inquirer asked him about the six he sent into the seats, he replied, “You were with, huh?”
Ortiz had a team-high 13 and 43 RBIs when he got hurt.
“When you’re incapacitated, it you,” he said. “It feels good. When you thump the bat, you want to strike hard.”
Ortiz started by hitting off a tee last week before progressing to BP, and didn’t seem surprised by the results.
“I feel fine,” he said. “On the outside a little sore, but not bad.”
He hit in the cage beneath the at Yankee Stadium on Sunday in New York.
“That was in reality planned,” Boston manager Terry Francona said. “He didn’t need to have his basic smack (filmed) in New York. That doesn’t make a lot of feeling.”
Ortiz didn’t immediately know what his next step would be, whether it would be more BP or a rehab assignment soon.
“I’m just an employee,” he .