For Yankees, David Ortiz can't leave soon enough

BOSTON -- Here's the good news, Yankee fans: Only 18 more games and you'll never have to see David Ortiz again.

And the bad news: There are still 18 more games left between the Yankees, the Boston Red Sox, and oh yeah, Ortiz, before the one-man Yankee wrecking crew known as Big Papi toddles off into retirement.

And if there was any question about whether Ortiz would go quietly into that good night, they were dispelled in the eighth inning of Friday's night's game between these former bitter AL East rivals, won, of course, by Ortiz, with a two-run homer off the previously untouchable Dellin Betances to give the Red Sox a come from behind 4-2 victory at Fenway Park.

If the Yankees hadn't seen…