ST. PETERSBURG — Sunday night, Rays shortstop Willy Adames was on the team’s charter flight, returning from a winning series in Boston, when a little of his world dropped to the pit of his stomach.
“I almost cried,” Adames said.
David Ortiz, the iconic, smiling, open-armed Red Sox legend and worldwide baseball ambassador and treasure, was shot at a nightclub in his native Dominican Republic.
The Red Sox sent a plane to fly Ortiz to Boston for more treatment. Ortiz’s organs were damaged, including his liver. Doctors removed his gall bladder and part of his intestines and colon during surgery.