The hall could be calling for ortiz

Class of 2022 to be announced tonight

David Ortiz is among the top candidates for enshrinement into the baseball Hall of Fame in the Class of 2022.

Before Boston became Title Town, Fenway Park was a place for Red Sox fans to gather together and grieve.

Slivers of hope were always darkened by the inevitable dread of disappointment.

Early playoff exits continued to further the gap between the Sox and Yankees in the ’90s and early 2000s, prompting endless mentions of the Curse of the

Bambino.

Until David Ortiz showed up. Tonight, at 6:15 p.m. ET, MLB Network will reveal the next batch of Hall of Fame inductees.

Of the 177 ballots that have been made public, Ortiz has been on 84.5% of them, according to records kept by the wildly popular @Notmrtibbs on Twitter. With 392 ballots expected in total, Ortiz needs to be on just 144 of the remaining 215 ballots (67%).

Barry Bonds (on 77.5% of public ballots) and Roger Clemens (76.5%), on the ballot for their 10th and final time, will be on standby as well.

Rarely has there been an athlete as transcendent as Ortiz to call Boston home for the majority of his career.

Born on Nov. 18, 1975, in the Dominican Republic’s capital of Santo Domingo, Ortiz signed with the Seattle Mariners around his 17th birthday and arrived in the United States a year later. The Mariners gave up on him after three years in the minors and sent him to Minnesota for Dave Hollins. The Twins kept him for parts of six big league seasons, but released the 26-year-old Ortiz to save money before the 2003 season.

Theo Epstein and the Sox scooped him up for $1.25 million.

Ten months later, Ortiz had accumulated 31 homers with