David Ortiz has gone beyond the sports cliche and is literally carrying the Boston Red Sox on his back in the World Series. How else do you describe his outstanding performance while the rest of the team has struggled mightily. Win one more game and he certainly has MVP locked up.
Through five games in the 2013 World Series Ortiz has hit 11 for 15 including .733/.750/1.267 with 2 HR, 6 RBI, 5 R, 0 SB. The rest of the team has hit .151/.220/.219 with 1 HR, 15 RBI, 16 R, 1 SB in those five games. Xander Bogaerts and Dustin Pedroia admittedly are both hitting above .250 otherwise those totals would be much worse.
In a game of superstitions the rest of the team should be trying to emulate everything that Ortiz does pre-game to try and get in that zone and hope some mojo rubs off onto them. Big Papi and a team of mini me's all ordering the same thing at breakfast and lunch. The whole team walking around in number 34 jerseys. Whatever it takes.
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