Since it was so cold and raw yesterday, a hitter's worst nightmare, the light offense from the Sox was acceptable and expected. Anyone whose played ball in New England knows how difficult it is at the beginning of the season when it may be spring, but you're playing in winter temperatures.

Those temperatures also made any chance the D-Rays had of defeating Pedro, near impossible. He looks like he's in mid-season form, sixteen strikeouts in outing number two, wow.

We may only be Six games into the campaign, but so far the questionable Sox pitching staff has been anything but, compiling a Major League best 1.56 ERA. Obviously we can't expect it to be this good all season, but even if it's just half as good, and we keep putting runs on the board, good things are going to happen.

One other thing I'd like to point out from yesterday's game is that all three of our runs came with two-outs. Two driven in by Manny and the other from Carl Everett. We all know too well that two-out RBI were hard to come by last season, and this same game last year probably would have gone to extra innings and then who knows.

Again, it's still early, but right now, all signs point up.

Off day today, then Hideo Nomo takes the hill against the Os on Tuesday.

paul@redsox2000.com