Boston Red Sox defeat New York Mets, 10-2

The place: The visiting clubhouse at Fenway Park.

The time: About 10:45 last night, about 45 minutes after the Sox-Mets game had ended. The situation: Lastings Milledge, chomping on a piece of chicken, reporters awkwardly waiting for him to finish his dinner to commence a single-themed line of questioning.

Milledge, on Tuesday, lost a bead on a ball hit to him in left field feet shy of the Monster, attempted to turn back at the last moment, and corkscrewed himself into ...

Nostalgia held sway over the Red Sox for exactly one pitch last night, an 85-mile-an-hour fastball from Pedro Martínez that Kevin Youkilis took for a called strike while flashbulbs popped, from the Monster seats to the right-field grandstands.

The next pitch, Youkilis lined into center field for a base hit, the start of a night as short as any Martínez ever experienced in Fenway Park pitching for the home team. In 94 starts for the Sox in Fenway Park, Martínez exited af...