As a younger player, Harold Baines and Edgar Martinez were among the hitters David Ortiz looked up to as examples. So it's not lost on Ortiz that he has now passed both to become baseball's all-time leader in hits as a designated hitter. "Wonderful hitters and when I first came up watching those guys," Ortiz said. "Now for your name to get mentioned next to theirs, it's a wonderful thing." Ortiz doubled in his first at-bat to pass Baines for the most hits as a DH and hit a two-run homer an inning later, leading the Boston Red Sox to an 11-4 win over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday night.
