BOSTON -- The clubhouse was as loud as it had been in some time. 'Get Low' by Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz was blaring. Duane Underwood Jr. wanted a ball after getting the save. Colin Holderman danced his way across the room, beverage in hand. The relievers jokingly groaned and heckled when the music had to be turned down for interviews.
For a setting that seemed even colder than the first-pitch-official 41 degrees and only got colder from there, old Fenway Park's visitor's clubhouse was afire by comparison.
In Derek Shelton's first three years managing the Pirates, they completed just one road sweep, that one last May against the Dodgers in Los Angeles.