Fog Blog David Ortiz Shot Log:

RED SOX SLUGGER AND HALL OF FAME PLAYER ' BIG PAPI' SHOT!.......The assassin’s point-blank gunshot pierced the right side of David Ortiz’s back, tore through his liver and intestines and exited just to the right of his navel, traveling fast enough to lodge in a companion’s thigh.“Please don’t let me die,” Ortiz pleaded again and again to physicians in the emergency room. “Please don’t let me die.”It was 9:15 p.m. Sunday, and “Big Papi,” the beloved former Boston Red Sox slugger, was in real trouble, his surgeons said in their first extensive interview. Quick action by them and bystanders, Ortiz’s size and sheer luck may have protected him from a worse fate.“He was stable. He was talking. But I can’t say he was in good condition,” said Jose Smester, the first surgeon to attend to Ortiz after the star ballplayer was wounded in a bar Sunday evening. “ . . . He was at a point, let’s say, where if he wasn’t taken care of right away, he could enter a critical stage.”