BOSTON -- There will be many opportunities over the next few years to marvel at Mookie Betts' leadoff home runs, three-hit games by Xander Bogaerts and Jackie Bradley Jr.'s surprising power. They are the Boston Red Sox's "Killer B's," the talented, young cornerstones of a first-place team that's every bit as bullish about its future as it is about its present.
But Thursday night belonged once more to the old guard.
After all these years, to say nothing of a pair of World Series titles as teammates, David Ortiz and Dustin Pedroia still manage to do things that even their manager rarely sees.