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- Updated: October 11, 2016
BOSTON — David Ortiz pounded pinch-runner Marco Hernandez’s helmet as he gave him words of encouragement, implored the Fenway faithful to get on their feet and then headed off into the dugout to root, root, root for the home team. That’s how Big Papi went out Monday night — defiant and hopeful but, ultimately, unsuccessful. The Red Sox saw their 2016 season end at the hands of the Indians in a three-game American League Division Series sweep in which Ortiz and the Boston bats just could not deliver the big hit, and now a legendary career has come to a close.
Boston’s 4-3 defeat in the ballpark Ortiz made his home and on the October stage he so consistently owned was not the ending Ortiz, who went 0-for-1 with two walks and a sacrifice fly, and the Red Sox envisioned. But the Indians, managed by Ortiz’s fellow former curse-breaker Terry Francona, had too many answers.
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After the final out, the crowd chanted “Pa-pi! Pa-pi” and then “Thank you, Pa-pi!”
Ortiz had two moments ripe for his typical October outcome.
In the sixth, with two runners in scoring position, one out and the Red Sox trailing 4-1, he had his chance to knot things up, but the …
