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This year more so, for there is reason to believe. The Sox have what may be the best team in the game. In a golden age of shortstops, they have one of the finest in Nomar Garciaparra, the defending American League batting champ who was hitting .387 as of Saturday. They have a new hero in center fielder Carl Everett, picked up in the off-season and now hitting .329, with 22 homers and 63 runs batted in. They have budding stars in right fielder Trot Nixon and catcher Jason Varitek and a dominating ninth-inning pitcher in Derek Lowe...
...Pedro Martinez, 28, the Red Sox have--with due respect to Arizona's Randy Johnson--the best pitcher in baseball. After winning 23 games and losing only four in 1999, then performing postseason heroics against Cleveland and New York, Martinez has won nine games this year and lost two--with an average of 12 strikeouts for every nine innings he pitches. What's most impressive about Martinez is his earned-run average: the number of runs that opposing teams score against him, without help from errors, for every nine innings that he pitches. In this ERA of a lively baseball...
...Sox's Bret Saberhagen, who has been around for 17 seasons, a couple of them as the finest pitcher of his day, says flatly, "That little man's the best I've ever seen. In my era, you've got Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson, Greg Maddux--but as far as I'm concerned, Pedro's the best...
...standards of major league pitchers, a little man. He is the smallest ever to strike out more than 300 batters in a season, a milestone he reached in 1997 and again last year. How does he do it? The Boston faithful say he's a miracle. Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette calls Martinez "a gift from...
Everything seems possible for Boston this year with Pedro--even breaking the Curse of the Bambino, which has supposedly blocked the Red Sox from winning the Series ever since they sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919. The Sox and the Yankees play four games this week at Fenway Park. Pedro starts things off Monday. On Monday morning, dawn will break over New England, and the Red Sox Nation will wake up smiling. Pedro goes tonight...