ARLINGTON, Texas -- David Ortiz' home-run drought ended at 19 games on Sunday, tying the longest dry spell in his six-year Red Sox career, but that doesn't mean the Boston designated hitter is healthy.

Ortiz, who missed almost two months because of a partially torn tendon sheath in his left wrist, said after yesterday's game that he is far from 100 percent.

"My hand is not OK. It's still bothering me once in a while. There's clicking," said Ortiz, referring to the sound made by the tendon as it moves in his wrist.

"But we're winning, so I don't pay any attention to it. I just keep on trying. It's clicking. No pain. If there would be pain I wouldn't be playing. It comes and goes. You try to put it out of your mind and play. Since I got that my whole swing has changed. I'm trying to get through it mentally, but it's hard, man, really tough."

Ortiz's towering two-run homer crashed off the façade of the second deck in right field.

The round-tripper was his 18th of the year, snapping the 19-game, 70-at-bat homerless streak. His last homer also had been against the Rangers, at Fenway Park on Aug. 14.

It also was Ortiz's first homer on the road since he clubbed a solo shot in Baltimore on May 31, but that drought seems worse than it really was, because Ortiz was out of action from June 1 to July 25.

Ortiz finished the season with 22 RBI (of his 72) in 10 games against Texas this season, tying Tony Conigliaro for the most RBI against the Senators/Rangers franchise in a season. Tony C. had 22 RBI in 18 games against the Washington Senators in 1970.