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smokinandjokin
Somebody emailed this to me....I think we all know how clutch Ortiz has been since he joined Boston, but to actually read this is mind blowing.

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Then you have Big Papi, the best clutch hitter of his generation. The Elias Sports Bureau was nice enough to send these numbers along: If Ortiz has one more walk-off hit in 2006, he'll be the first baseball hitter to have six in a single season since the division era began in 1969. ... Since the start of 2005, he's come up 13 times with the chance for a game-ending plate appearance and made an out only once (and he ended up winning that game in the 12th inning). ... He has the most walk-off hits in any four-year span (12, and that doesn't include the three in the 2004 playoffs, which made him the only player in history with three game-ending postseason hits). ... Since he joined the Red Sox in 2003, he has 15 walk-off hits and the rest of the team has 19 total. ... Since Aug. 1, 2004, Ortiz has hit 21 home runs in 138 at-bats in Late-Inning Pressure Situations (no other player has more than 13). ... Dusty Baker has the most career walk-off hits (25, including the playoffs), but Ortiz is 10 behind. And just for the record, none of those stats include all the times when he tied a game or gave the Red Sox the lead in the seventh or eighth inning.


Unreal is about the only way to put it. Like I said, we've all seen the highlights and we all know his success in game-winning situations, but putting it down on paper made me say "Wow."

In a related story, it is believed that A-Rod actually tied a game once in his career with a 7th inning sac fly. That is yet to be confirmed.
gantrules
Jeff Francoeur is 3rd in the majors with 2 out RBI's.

Just in case you wondered :-)
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