David Ortiz PEDs: After a Boston Globe story accused Ortiz of taking performance enhancing drugs, Ortiz denied that he has.
“What you are doing looks too good to be true,” writes a Globe reporter, recounting a conversation with Ortiz, of the Boston Red Sox.
“I told him he looks dirty,” the reporter writes.
Ortiz has been hitting .426, with a hitting streak of 27 games before a loss on May 8.
Ortiz told the Globe that his hard work has been paying off.
“We work consistently to get better,“ he said. ”I don’t work consistently in the cage every day, I don’t hit every day in batting practice, I don’t watch video every day to get worse.”
“I’m a human being just like everyone else,” said Ortiz. “You can get worse or you can get better. One or the other.’’
The league’s testing is strict, too, he said.
“They test me all the time,” he said. “They make you pee and they test your blood, too. This year I would say I’ve probably been tested five times, peeing. Blood, just once. That was in spring training. They don’t warn you. They just show up.’’
Ortiz told reporters before a game on May 8 that there was “no reason” to link him to the performance-enhancing drugs.
