ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Dustin Pedroia only did what Boston Red Sox fans everywhere wished they could have.
It was the second inning here Monday night, and another Red Sox starting pitcher was getting lit up. This time, it was Eduardo Rodriguez, who allowed five runs in the first inning -- against the woebegone Tampa Bay Rays, no less -- and a two-out infield single to Logan Morrison in the second, compelling pitching coach Carl Willis to come trudging back out to the mound.
And Pedroia, like Howard Beale in the 1976 film "Network," was mad as hell and wasn't going to take it anymore.