24-0

its nice to see that things have picked up exactly where theyve left off...



FORT MYERS, Fla.—Josh Beckett and the Boston Red Sox were in October form during their exhibition opener.

Baseball's only 20-game winner last year didn't care that his first opponent of spring training was a Boston College team that had been working out indoors all winter to escape the cold and snow up north.

The Red Sox ace only cared about keeping batters from making contact and refining his pitches on a relatively chilly (58 degrees) Florida day. He retired all six hitters he faced, four on strikeouts, in Boston's 24-0 victory in seven innings Thursday.

AL Rookie of the Year Dustin Pedroia hit a two-run double, and a Red Sox split squad picked up right where the team left off last October when it swept Colorado for its second World Series title in four years.