David Ortiz has been slamming baseballs over the fence all season long. But on Friday afternoon Ortiz found himself slamming on the brakes instead.
As Ortiz was pulling out of a gas station on Boylston Street, the white Audi R8 he was driving inexplicably spun out of control and the Red Sox designated hitter crashed into a car stopped at a red light on the road.
The collision caused some damage to the passenger side of Ortiz’s vehicle and the other car, containing a woman and child inside, sustained only minor damage to one of the front headlights.
Ortiz explained the crash as an accident and took full responsibility for it.
“The good thing is that there were no injuries,” a surprisingly joyful Ortiz said, according to the Boston Herald. “I talked to the lady that was driving. I don’t think she knows me, at all. But she was good. Now she’s going to see herself on the news and be like, ‘Oh, I know that guy.’ I made sure I talked to them. They were just waiting for the light. They weren’t moving. I was the one that was moving.”
Ortiz, who says he hasn’t driven the Audi in “months,” was on his way to Fenway Park for Friday’s game at the time of the accident.
“I told my boy, ‘Just pull it out. I’ll drive it today.’ But I wasn’t even going to drive it because it started getting cloudy. With that car, you don’t want to drive that car in the rain. It started spinning out of nowhere. Then I tried to get control of it and I hit a car with the side. That car just had a little thing on the driver’s side in the front where the lights are. My car is [expletive] up.”
Ortiz was in the starting lineup, batting third for the Red Sox on Friday night.
