Sweet Release: Red Sox Take Second Straight from Blue Jays as Ortiz Homers

This Article Originally Published at GetOutofMyBallpark.com

You know that feeling, when you haven't gotten laid in a while, and so it's all you can think about every time you talk to a girl, no matter how ugly she is (if you don't know it talk to ABA)?

Each failure makes you feel like it will never happen again that you are doomed to spend your life in the dark, crying as you jerk off and using your tears as lube. It's a fear that can't really be explained.

Well, that's how David Ortiz, a man whose whole self was defined by his ability to hit the ball out of the ballpark, felt as he stepped into the batters box for his 150th at bat since his last regular season home run (lest we forget, as it seems everyone else has, the bomb he hit to really get things started in the seventh inning of game five of the ALCS last year). And then he made the fear pay.

I guess, at least for one night, Tito was right, again. After a weekend off, and one game where he might as well have been off, David Ortiz has finally (after 150 at bats) earned the right to be called Big Papi again, if only until 7:10 PM tonight.

Papi went two for five with two Ks (that will have to stop, at least if you aren't going to get on, you need productive outs), a double (a strong one off the left center wall, going the other way) and, finally, a home run.

The good signs were that he went the other way for both of his hits, hit both balls really hard, and the bomb was off a lefty. There is room to grow, but the first step is often the hardest and it looked in post game interviews like Ortiz had puled the monkey off his back, thrown it to the ground and bludgeoned it to death with his Nokona.

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