David Ortiz was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year on the ballot.
The former Red Sox DH was the lone member of this year’s class to get the 75 percent of the vote from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
Ortiz received 77.9 percent of the vote.
Alex Rodriguez — also in his first year on the ballot — finished with only 34.3 percent of the vote.
And the writers also ended the chances of three other controversial figures getting voted in by the writers. Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling all failed to get in on their 10th and final years on the ballot.
Bonds went from 61.8 percent to 66 percent and Clemens from 61.6 to 65.2.
On Twitter, Clemens wrote he and his “family put the [Hall of Fame] in the rearview mirror 10 years ago. I didn’t play baseball to get into the HOF.”
