For the first time in more than two years, David Ortiz and Alex Rodriguez spoke to one another on Tuesday.

Ortiz and Rodriguez ran into each other in an indoor batting cage at JetBlue Park, embraced and had a brief conversation before the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees played an exhibition game, Rodriguez confirmed.

"I spoke to him today," Rodriguez told ESPN.com when asked whether he felt a need to reach out to Ortiz, who plans to retire after this season. "I'm happy for him. He's in a good place."

Ortiz was deeply offended when Rodriguez's lawyer appeared on ESPN Radio in January 2014 and, in a discussion about steroids use in baseball, said, "I'm not going to start naming all the other players, but some of them are God-like in Boston right now."