Papi, Cano attend wake in Queens for Lima

David Ortiz lingered near the casket, took one final look at his friend's face and slowly walked away.

Jose Lima, the exuberant pitcher who always could draw a crowd with his singing and dancing, was mourned Friday by fellow All-Stars, family and friends. He died Sunday at age 37 after paramedics found him in cardiac arrest at his home in Pasadena, Calif.

"He was one of the happiest men in the world," Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano said. "It's very sad, to lose him so young."

Yankees coach Tony Peña also was among the hundreds at the wake at a funeral home on a tree-lined residential street in Queens. It was about a mile from where Lima threw his last big-league pitch for the Mets in 2006.

Ortiz came down from Boston to honor his former Dominican winter league teammate. He stayed an hour, then headed back to Fenway Park and hit an RBI single in the first inning against Kansas City.

The wake originally was set for Thursday, but paperwork in California pushed it back by a day. Johan Santana and Jose Reyes were among the many players who originally planned to attend, but they couldn't because they were in Milwaukee on Friday.

"I never played with him,'' Santana said Friday, "but I loved to be around him."