David Ortiz PEDs: Red Sox DH Denies Reports Of Steroid Use

Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz is refuting reports his quick start to the season may be fueled by the use of performance enhancing drugs.

A notoriously slow starter, Ortiz has a 27-game hitting streak this season and has four homes and 17 RBIs in his last 16 games.  The question of if the 37-year-old was using PEDs was raised in a recent Boston Globe story.

“I have bad Aprils and they bury me, or some reporter buries me because of that, said Ortiz, who described himself as “hurt” by the report. “I have a good April and it’s bad too. You’re going to make me look like that just because I’m hitting good through 15 games,” he told ESPN’s Pedro Gomez. “I mean it makes no sense.”

Ortiz has been linked to PEDs before. Back in 2009, The New York Times reported he tested positive for PEDs during the 2003 season. He defended that result by asserting a combination of then-legal supplements and vitamins likely caused it.  

In his chat with Gomez, Ortiz described himself as a “big, firm believer” in Major League Baseball’s drug-testing program and insisted he was tested as recently as Tuesday night. Earlier he told the Globe he has been tested “probably” as many as five times this season.

 

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