When You're Hot...

The Rockies are going to have to come up bigtime tonight or it may be a short series.

After Beckett struck out the side in the top of the first, the Pest Pedroia smacked the second pitch off the top of the wall in left center. He's getting the Manny Ramirez Bat Drop thing down pat. It won't be long before he's raising his arms up in the air like the great Dominican slugger.

Bad as all that was for Colorado, that was when the Rockies were probably at their peak in this game. Everything went wrong for them... small things, for instance a lazy Ramirez liner looping over the heads of a strangely drawn-in infield. Big things: Clint Hurdle allowing Ryan Speier to walk in three consecutive runs.

It's the World Series, Man... you gotta yank anyone with the Fenway jitters as soon you see it.

This is baseball, though... a funny game. Today is always another day.