My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

Ortiz charged at Gregg and started a bench-clearing brawl. Kennedy Library in Boston. On May 22 Ortiz hit his first home run of the season off Brett Cecil of the Toronto Blue Jays ending his career-high 178 homerless at-bat streak.

Mostly a designated hitter Ortiz sometimes plays at first base. Ortiz played with the Minnesota Twins from 1997 until 2002. David Américo Ortiz Arias (born November 18 1975) nicknamed "Big Papi" is a Dominican-American professional baseball player with the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball.