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No HR contest for Ortiz

Print | Comments () Posted by Amalie Benjamin June 13, 2007 05:13 PM

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David Ortiz said this afternoon that he would not be participating in the home run derby this year, though he is all but assured of making the All-Star team.

"I'm going to sit out this year," Ortiz said. "Maybe later. I've been doing it for the past three years, man. It just wears me out. The problem is that you start and then when you have to stop to wait for all the guys to go and hit, like I swing out of my [rear] all the time, so when I had to shut things down and then start over again an hour later? I don't have it."