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Timing is Ortiz's biggest concern July 18: David Ortiz is working on all elements of his game while rehabbing from an injury.

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updated 10:48 p.m. ET July 19, 2008

PAWTUCKET, R.I. - David Ortiz homered for the third straight game during a rehabilitation assignment with Triple-A Pawtucket on Saturday night.

The Boston Red Sox slugger, who has been sidelined since May 30 because of a partially torn tendon sheath in his wrist, couldn’t help Pawtucket beat Toledo, as the Mud Hens won 13-5. Ortiz was 1-for-4 with the homer.

Toledo right-hander Chris Lambert, a native of Manchester, N.H., got Ortiz to lunge at a breaking pitch in the first inning and Boston’s All-Star designated hitter fouled out weakly to first baseman Derek Wathan.

Ortiz crushed a 3-1 fastball off the elevated billboard that’s located just to the right of the right-center field videoboard in the third.

Lambert fanned Ortiz on a 3-2 breaking ball in the fifth and left-hander Clay Rapado retried Ortiz on a checked-swing third strike in the seventh.

Ortiz is scheduled to play his last rehab game with Pawtucket on Sunday afternoon and then join Double-A Portland on Monday for three more games.

He is expected to return to the Red Sox for the home series with the Yankees on July 25.

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