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Article: Red Sox's slugger Ortiz homers in rehab start
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- July 18, 2008
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The crowd began chanting "Papi!" and David Ortiz responded, slamming a 1-2 pitch into the visitors' bullpen in his rehab debut in Pawtucket on Thursday night as he tries to work his way back from a wrist injury that has kept him out of the lineup since May 31.
"That's my game," Ortiz said outside the PawSox clubhouse, meeting with reporters in the seventh inning before leaving the ballpark. "It feels good ... to be able to swing like that after an injury when I couldn't hold onto my bat."
Ortiz popped up to shortstop in his first time up. When he came to bat again to lead off the fourth inning, he fell behind 0-2 before the standing-room crowd ...