Well, David Ortiz was not suspended.
Fresh off a rampage through his dugout last night that opened eyes and sent shrapnel of broken bat and shatter plastic flying at the direction of Dustin Pedroia, Ortiz was back at it today, using the bat the way it is intended to be utilized: for hitting a BASEBALL.Fact is less than 24 hours after an outburst for the history books, the Boston DH and his team were back together earlier this afternoon and while pitcher Jon Lester continued to improve it, was Ortiz that was the big turnaround story of the night.
Literally right out of the get go, Papi was ready to go as he jumped on the first pitch he saw in the game and drove it hard down the left field line for a single. 2 innings later he was at it again smashing a towering 2 run shot to straight away center field to seal the game by giving the Sox a 3-0 lead.
You notice my wording there. You see on a normal night a 3-0 lead against one of the top offence in baseball would be nothing. But not today, not with a dominant Jon Lester on the mound.
After starting off the season a dominant 6 and 0, Lester had slumped coming into the all-star break as from May 20th on, he had gone an abysmal 2 and 6 and was a surprising sore spot in Boston's pitching lineup. But fresh out of the 4 day mid-season celebration for which he was not a part of, Lester is once again undefeated, allowing just 2 runs and 11 hits in over 13 innings of work.
In one of his best games of the year, Lester pitched a 4 hit 7 inning performance today giving the Orioles nothing and holding onto an early lead to give Boston the win and guide them back into a position that have willfully become reacquainted with: first in the East.
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