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Hit 3 home runs ✅ Join 500-homer club ✅ AL Player of the Week honors ✅✅✅ Congrats on a heck of a week, @davidortiz! pic.twitter.com/onXN44h7Up

— Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) September 14, 2015

This is going to come as a shock to some of you. Baseball season is actually still in progress, and even though the mass audience has turned their collective heads to the NFL, some pretty exciting baseball is being played by our own Boston Red Sox (even more shocking, I know).
For the dwindling few baseball fans who will be waiting until November to turn their full attention to football, there are some pretty exciting storylines between pennant races, MVP duels, and breakout stars.
But the most exciting story here in Beantown is undoubtedly that David Ortiz scorched his 499th and 500th career home runs on Saturday night in Tampa Bay.
Down at the other Fenway South, aka Tropicana Field, David Ortiz finally achieved the hallowed milestone in a 10-4 victory over Matt Moore and the Tampa Bay Rays. Here’s a look at the milestone unfolding:

After @DavidOrtiz’s 500th homer, enjoy 10 of his biggest and best: http://t.co/UmxvDoXS6E pic.twitter.com/LKAX4KFKxT

— Cut4 (@Cut4) September 13, 2015

With those moonshots, David Ortiz became the fourth Red Sox player to join the “500 club”, alongside Ted Williams, Jimmie Foxx, and Manny Ramirez. Ortiz also joins Alex Rodriguez and Albert Pujols as the only active players of the 26 total legends that comprise the elite group.
This is also the latest bullet point on a stacked resume that Hall of Fame voters will be considering within the next decade. David Ortiz’s career numbers speak for themselves – what remains to be seen is whether the connection with steroids will tarnish his career.
But to this pundit at least, it seems hard to envision that David Ortiz won’t be enshrined within the halls at Cooperstown as a younger generation of writers forces out the current old farts that comprise the BBWAA voting body.

Roy Hobbs may just be the greatest pure hitter the sport of baseball has ever seen. He also bears a striking resemblance to Robert Redford, and wields his trusty “Wonderboy” bat to hammer justice, and dingers. Hobbs also moonlights as a 21 year old intern who loves sports and is working with the QQ experts to learn and get as much experience as he can possibly fit into his schedule. Read the rest of Roy’s bio right here on the staff page. And read more of Roy’s work here.