Ortiz slams milestone 500th homer

Now that David Ortiz has hit his 500th career home run, you can naturally expect some comments about his all-time greatness.

His team-mates streamed from the dugout to celebrate with him.

Ortiz became the 27th player in Major League Baseball history to hit 500 homers.

Enny Romero worked 1.1-innings and was charged with two earned runs on three hits while striking out one. 442 of Ortiz’s home runs have come with the Red Sox, the first 58 coming with the Minnesota Twins. Ortiz reached the milestone by lining a shot to right-center on a 2-2 pitch leading off the fifth.

Ortiz reached the milestone with his second homer in Saturday night’s game at Tampa Bay.

BLUE JAYS 9-10, YANKEES 5-7 Toronto opened a season-high 4 1/2-game lead in the AL East, sweeping a doubleheader from host New York on a sodden Saturday when Troy Tulowitzki cracked a shoulder blade and Marcus Stroman won in his return from a spring training knee injury.

The home run was the second of the day for Ortiz, who hit No. 499 in the first inning to bring home Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts. Sox 5-0. In the 4th inning the Sox added two more runs to the scoreboard when Pedroia hit an RBI double to score Bradley and Betts.

The Cardinals committed five errors in the first three games of the series and have been outscored 47-13 in the past seven contests. “My first home run, I don’t know if Moore was trying to go off the plate or outside but it was straight”. Joc Pederson, Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford also had home runs for the Dodgers.

In San Francisco, Madison Bumgarner lost his bid for a flawless game on a single with two outs in the eighth inning, the lone blemish for the San Francisco Giants ace.

With an overflow crowd in the right field stands on its feet and chanting “Let’s go Papi!”

The home team continued to struggle inning after inning with their pitchers and Heath Hembree came in to relieve Cook.

– As I write this, Papi has 34 homers this year, Colorado Rockie Nolan Arenado leads the National League with 38. Since July 1, the Mets are 25-11 on the road, best in the majors over that span. But after pinch-hitter John Jaso was intentionally walked, first baseman James Loney hit into a double play.

Andrew Bellatti entered the game with the bases loaded and one out and gave up a 2-RBI single to Rusney Castillo.

He landed an opportunity with the Pawtucket Red Sox, the Boston Red Sox AAA affiliate.

In Pittsburgh, Jeff Locke pitched one-run ball into the seventh inning and Michael Morse hit a pinch-hit grand slam as the Pirates tightened up the NL Central race. Locke (8-10) allowed three hits in 6 1/3 innings. Moreland, second on the club with 71 RBIs, was out of the lineup for the previous five games in which the Rangers faced a left-handed starter, and the Rangers were 1-4.