Dominican David Ortiz hit the ball out of the park to beat the Detroit Tigers and send Boston’s Fenway Park into delirium on Sunday evening, 13 October. The Boston Red Sox slugger’s grand slam in the eight inning of the game was a shocker. The Detroit Tigers were leading 5-1 in the eighth inning of the American League Championship Series when Ortiz did his stuff to tie the game.
Fellow Dominican Joaquin Benoit had the responsibility of putting Ortiz out for the Tigers. With only one out to go, Benoit pitched the ball that put Boston back into the game, and led to a 6-5 win. Boston Globe reported that no player had ever hit a grand slam to tie a postseason game in the eighth or later.
Boston Globe reported that the “Tigers were forced to watch Max Scherzer’s seven-inning, one-run, two-hit, 13-strikeout performance go up in smoke and after seemingly having the series firmly in their clutches they had to settle for a split as the series swings to Detroit”.
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