An ESPN cameraman may be serving as a good luck charm for Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, based on the way Big Papi was chatting him up after his fourth inning home run during Sunday night's game against the N.Y. Yankees.
As the ESPN cameraman, Duke Thorne, came out to take a close-up shot as Big Papi jogged to the dugout after his homer, Ortiz could be seen telling Thorne "I told you! I told you!"
During an ESPN Sunday Night Baseball broadcast earlier this season on June 8th, Ortiz hit a go-ahead 3-run HR against Detroit to give the Red Sox a 5-3 victory, and Thorne was apparently there to capture that moment as well. Ortiz must have said something to the cameraman before his at-bat about hitting another homer, and he definitely enjoyed the moment afterwards.
Unfortunately, things didn't end as well for the Red Sox this time around, as the Yankees came from behind to win the game 8-7.
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