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发帖数: 1826 | 1 By Rick Reilly | ESPN.com
ST. LOUIS -- Even an hour after it was over, we could hear David Ortiz,
somewhere in the showers, still yelling.
"You see?!? You see?!?" he kept hollering at somebody we couldn't see. "I
got two rings! You want a ring, you need to listen to me when I go crazy!
You need to listen!"
They did. And this World Series is all new for it.
Just before the sixth inning Sunday in Game 4, with the Boston Red Sox
looking like they'd stayed too long at the blood bank, Ortiz gathered them
all into a huddle in the dugout.
David Ortiz used the dugout as his pulpit, the Red Sox responded with a
three-run sixth inning.
"It was like 24 kindergartners looking up at their teacher," left fielder
Jonny Gomes said. "That message was pretty powerful."
It must've gotten through to Gomes. Minutes later, he drilled a Busch-
busting, two-out, three-run home run -- with Ortiz standing on first -- that
cracked the game open and evened this Dramamine Series at 2-2, with Boston
getting two of the next three games at home.
Big Papi will go down as one of the most clutch hitters in postseason
history -- he's hitting a ridiculous .727 in this Series -- but who knew he
was one of the most clutch speakers?
"We call Big Papi 'Cooperstown,'" starter Clay Buchholz said. "Whatever he
says, everybody listens."
"He kind of took us all into the corner of the dugout," outfielder Daniel
Nava said. "I can't repeat all the words he was using, but he just shook us
up."
Outfielder Quintin Berry: "He was yelling and screaming. It was like
football or something. Man, he had everybody juiced up. 'We can hit this guy
. Get on that fastball!"
Nava: "It was like, 'It's go time. Let's get after them. Let's get in the
box and be looking to do some damage.' And I mean, he never does that. And
it worked."
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