BOSTON -- Not all of David Ortiz's home runs are created equal. The 507th of his career, in the eighth inning Friday night, was extra special, but not for the reason you might think.
Yes, Ortiz's two-run shot into the seats atop the Green Monster at Fenway Park provided the winning margin in the Boston Red Sox's 4-2 victory over the archrival New York Yankees in the first meeting between the teams this season. More significantly, though, it fulfilled a promise that the iconic Sox slugger made before the game to a 5-year-old fan who is coping with tetralogy of fallot, a serious congenital heart defect.