I was in attendance at Papi's last game in 2012 before he shut it down, he rocketed a ball off the Wall and was limping pretty badly all the way to second. He really couldn't move at all and it was clear the injury was very serious.Ortiz went down with his heel injury on July 16th. They promptly lost 7 of 10 before they recovered with that 4 game winning streak to close out July. And of course Valentine alienated Papi by insinuating his injury wasn't that serious; I think the front office essentially shut Ortiz down for the season in August over Valentine's objections.
Naturally Valentine insinuated that Ortiz wasn't tough enough to play through it. As always, what an asshole.