ANAHEIM — Torii Hunter smiled a broad smile while sitting in front of his locker at Angel Stadium prior to his team’s game with the Red Sox, Tuesday night.

“If they don’t want him,” the LA outfielder said, “we’ll take him.”

The “him” Hunter was referring to was his longtime friend, Sox DH David Ortiz, who enters the three-game series with the Angels having gone 130 regular season at-bats without a home run, the second-longest stretch of his career. And judging by the session Ortiz held with the media prior to the series opener with the Angels, the slugger hasn’t actually been able to avoid thinking about the homerless stretch.

How often is he thinking about it?

“Every day,” said Ortiz when asked how often he thinks about going without a home run this season. “Every day. Sleeping. Eating. Having breakfast. (Going to the bathroom.) It’s bad.

“Just keep on working. It’s early. I’d like to do it from the very beginning, but I know things are going to get better.”

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