Ortiz Claims Steroid Innocence

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David Ortiz held a news conference before Saturday afternoon's game in New York defending his innocence.

Ortiz believes then-legal supplements and vitamins likely caused him to land on a 2003 list of alleged drug users.

"I definitely was a little bit careless back in those days when I was buying supplements and vitamins over the counter -- legal supplements, legal vitamins over the counter -- but I never buy steroids or use steroids," Ortiz said.

"I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings."

The New York Times reported last month that Ortiz and Manny Ramirez were on the 2003 list.

Via ESPN

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