Joe Cronin, the Boston manager, offered to let him sit - the .400 would be his.

"I didn't think he'd stay in there," said Joe Morgan, the Boston manager.

"They were not as terrific as they were a year ago," the Boston general manager said.

Jimy Williams, the Boston manager, said it was the best pitching effort he had ever seen.

"They're the best team in the world," said the Boston manager, Joe Morgan.

"Roger was good today," the Boston manager, Joe Morgan, said.

"They see us and their eyes light up," the Boston manager, Joe Morgan, said.

"Today's prognosis was not good," said the Boston manager, Joe Morgan, after the game.

"Building and bettering your team is much different than it once was," Chris Wallace, the Boston general manager, said in an interview last month.

But people will blame Grady Little, the Boston manager, and they will have a point.