What is the problem with David Ortiz????

Question

What is the problem with Big Papi? what is he suffering from??? Why is he going back to Boston today???? Also, why hasn't Manny been playing????

p.s. I hope he gets better but I'm glad he's missing the last two games against the A's! Go Oakland.

EDIT: I'm a big fan of his and I respect him... I just know my team has a better shot at winning without him in the lineup.

Answer 1

He has an irregular heartbeat. this when you heart goes beat beat__ beatbeatbeat. your heart stops for a second. Your body is drained of all energy. then you are fine for hours, days etc.

I know from experience since I too suffer from an irregular heartbeat and I never took steroids in my life .

Manny isn't playing because of his bad knees..

We are also without Veritek, Nixon, Willy Mo , Wakefield , Lester and Clement

Papi may get better once the Dr's run tests and find out what is going on. He may have to go on some medication for his heart. He should be fine.

For all who are talking about Him taking Steriods maybe you shouldn't listen to rumors.

Unless you acutally saw him taking Steriods then you don't really know.now do you.

Answer 2

BOSTON (Reuters) - Powerful slugger David Ortiz will miss Tuesday's game against Oakland after he suffered a recurrence of an irregular heartbeat.

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Ortiz will undergo medical exams after sitting out Monday's game against the Athletics in Oakland, where the Red Sox lost 9-0 -- their 12th loss in 15 games.

He will play again only after receiving a clean bill of health from doctors, Red Sox manager Terry Francona said.

The Boston Herald reported Francona as saying Ortiz's heart started racing about an hour before Monday's game -- at least the third time the 30-year-old has experienced an irregular heartbeat in three weeks.

Ortiz, who spent time in hospital earlier this month for the same condition which he has blamed on stress and fatigue, leads baseball with 47 home runs and 121 RBI.

The clutch-hitting sensation from the Dominican Republic has been considered in contention for the American League's Most Valuable Player this year.

Team mate Manny Ramirez, who is hitting .326 with 34 homers and 100 RBI, is also temporarily out with patellar tendinitis in his right knee and is expected to be sidelined at least until Thursday.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

David Ortiz has an irregular heartbeat and is out indefinitely, Manny has been battling a knee injury for a couple weeks. It's sad because I'm a Red Sox fan.

Answer 5

well he has an irregular heartbeat... and manny's hurt too... i saw a stat that the whole lineup the red sox had playing the other day had less homeruns than david ortiz because he and manny were both out! tough to win with a lineup like that!

Answer 6

David Ortiz has an irregular heartbeat. He'll probably be out for a week and a half. Manny has an injured knee and is out day - to - day. Gives your A's a few wins.

Answer 7

David Oritz had an irregular heartbeat, & for all the people saying that he is on steriods, it is not true. He was diagonosed before & has a heart murmer (small hole in the heart), which can cause problems such as an irregular heart beat.
He shoud be cleared by his Dr. in a few days as long as there are not serious threats to his health!

ALL YOU YANKEE FANS.. JETER DOES NOT DESERVE MVP!
PAPI ALL THE WAY!

Answer 8

David Ortiz is back to Boston after having a recurrence of an irregular heartbeat.
OAKLAND -- The massive slump the Red Sox are in seemed far less relevant by the end of Monday night, when the club revealed that David Ortiz, the team's star designated hitter, suffered a recurrence of the rapid heartbeat he was experiencing 10 days ago. Ortiz will fly back to Boston on Tuesday morning to undergo further medical exams.
"He's going to go back to Boston and he's going to get a clean bill of health before we let him play again," said Red Sox manager Terry Francona after Monday's 9-0 loss to the A's. "He wanted to play; we just can't do that. We can't play him like that. We just can't do it. I know [general manager Theo Epstein] is in agreement with me. We sat in here with [Ortiz] and, as much as we want to win, we can't do it. We're just going to make sure he's OK."

It was recently revealed that Ortiz was hospitalized the night of Aug. 19 after experiencing dehydration and stress. He checked out the next morning, given a clean bill of health by physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, and played on Aug. 20 against the Yankees, hitting a home run.

Ortiz played the first six games of this West Coast trip, belting three homers to give him a Major League-leading 47 this season. But it was announced shortly before Monday's game at Oakland that Ortiz was scratched from the lineup because, according to team spokesman Peter Chase, "he wasn't feeling well."

After the game, Francona told reporters that Ortiz had a recurrence of what went on during the five-game series against the Yankees at Fenway.

Wily Mo Pena, one of Ortiz's closest friends on the Red Sox, was aware that Ortiz was again feeling the irregular heartbeat on Monday.

"He told me it was still bothering him a little bit," Pena said. "That's why they took him out of the lineup. He doesn't know where that's coming from. He feels all that stuff just going boom boom boom, but nobody knows where that is coming from."

Francona emphasized multiple times to reporters that the Red Sox were sending Ortiz home as a precaution, and were optimistic that the slugger would be OK.

"We honestly think he's OK," Francona said. "He's not light-headed. Again, I just have a responsibility to do what's right. It's precautionary; I don't know, [if there's] a one in a million [chance of risk], whatever, it's just not going to happen. If there's any risk at all, we're not taking it."

Is an irregular heartbeat a fair enough synopsis of what Ortiz is feeling?

"Yeah, I think that's correct," Francona said. "And, again, I can't get too specific because I just don't know. I don't pretend to know. We just can't let him ... again, to reiterate, the games are important, but we have a responsibility to do what's right."

That was a sentiment echoed throughout the Boston clubhouse.

"This game is nothing compared to somebody's health and somebody's family," said Red Sox reliever Mike Timlin. "You don't play games with people's lives. I don't care what you do. All I can do right now is pray for him."

Ortiz had an in-depth discussion with reporters last Friday about his scare in Boston, and seemed confident that the issue was behind him.

"I'm a healthy son of a [gun]," Ortiz proclaimed to reporters on Aug. 25. "Yeah, everything was fine. It's just stress. When you stress out, your whole body can change in a minute. That's what was happening."

The Red Sox hope to get more answers when Ortiz returns to Boston.

"He was in a good mood today," Pena said of Ortiz. "I think after he went and talked to the trainers, after they took him out of the lineup, he told me it started bothering him again. So I don't know yet what is going to happen."

Answer 9

an abnormally rapid heart beat. Hes going to Boston to be checked and Manny has been hurt as well.

Answer 10

Big Papi suffered an irregular heartbeat, a common side effect of many steroids. Also, he was battling lethargy, and dehydration, both of which are also common side effects of steroids. Add 1+1 and you will get 2.

Also, go A's hell yeah. I hope they absolutely beat the crap out of the Red Sux. Frank Thomas = Hall of Fame.