David Ortiz held his cap high in the air as the Fenway Faithful chanted his name one last time. The longtime Boston Red Sox slugger stood silently. Perhaps he hadn’t prepared a speech because he didn’t expect that they would lose that night, or maybe there was just nothing to say. After breaking curses, building a dynasty, and putting the entire city on his back, he had left everything that needed to be said on the field.
As he walked off the field for the last time, fans and executives alike knew that Ortiz’s retirement would leave a void in the Red Sox lineup.