COMMENTARY
David Ortiz will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend. That, at minimum, the Red Sox-centric world can look forward to.
Ortiz will be celebrated in Cooperstown for being a capital-letter Star in a sport that needs more of them, but at the core, for bailing out the Red Sox time and time again. Twenty-three walkoff hits, including those three in the ’04 postseason that made him a legend before his 30th birthday.
Stretch that definition to go-ahead hits in the seventh inning or later of a game, and Baseball Reference spits out 76, including my favorite Ortiz deep cut: Oct.