Well, the Red Sox took a 2-0 lead in the World Series last night, outlasting the Colorado Rockies 2-1. This was right after the Sox demolished the Rocks 13-1 in Game One. It's amazing how many different ways this team can beat you. They can beat you with the home run, with the stolen base, they can beat you with the starting pitching, with the closers, with the singles hitting, and they can win by simply giving the ball to Curt Schilling and asking him to think of something.

        One of the things nowadays that separates the good baseball teams from the great is middle-relief pitching.
For Boston, that means Hideki Okajima. Brought to the Red Sox seemingly as just someone for Dice-K to talk to, Okajima is now arguably the best set-up reliever in the American Laegue. Check out these post-season stats: 9 2/3 innings, 5 hits, zero runs, 9 strikeouts, an ERA  of, as Dean Wormer would say,  zero........point.......zero!!
You can't put a price on the ability to come into a game in the sixth inning, say, when your starter has worn out, with two on or with the bases loaded, and bail everybody else out. And he did it superbly last night in relief of Schilling in the 6th. I figured that someone, and it might as well be me, gave Hideki Okajima his due.