Burns relied on the commentaries provided by the likes of Omar Vizquel and Pedro Martinez.
He received some advice during the offseason from a pitcher he idolized, former-Met Pedro Martinez.
On the mound for the Red Sox was starter and ace pitcher, Pedro Martinez, protecting a 5--2 lead.
He went there, ostensibly, to remove Red Sox pitching ace Pedro Martinez in favor of a relief pitcher.
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Over a four year period, Bryant believed that Pedro Martinez had the ability to throw a no-hitter each time that he took the mound.
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The previous mark was 16, set by Philadelphia's Curt Schilling in 1997 against the New York Yankees and Boston's Pedro Martinez in 1999 against Atlanta.
The sellout streak began on May 15, 2003, when the Red Sox beat the Texas Rangers 12-3 as Pedro Martinez pitched six scoreless innings before 32, 485 fans.
In the midst of the reverential awe and fascination with Pedro Martinez, Burns allowed for another former Red Sox icon to be showered with praise and adulation.
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Along with Myers, Harvey's strikeout rate at his age puts him in the company of Steve Carlton, Roger Clemens and Pedro Martinez, who all went on to have pretty good careers.
Stocked with stars like Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado and Pedro Martinez, they signed free-agent busts to bloated contracts and squandered draft picks in trying to get over the hump.
With the H2O starting rotation of Roy Halliday, Roy Oswalt and Cole Hamels, they are light years ahead of where they were last year when they opted to start aging Pedro Martinez twice.
In the past, the New York Mets, desperate to show fans a winning commitment, obliged by overpaying for Pedro Martinez and Jason Bay, allowing the Red Sox to let them walk rather than overpay themselves.
Expos fans would have preferred the team invest some of that profit toward a long-term deal for Cy Young award winner Pedro Martinez, instead of trading him to the Boston Red Sox before the 1998 season started.
Even though Burns acknowledged and honored the feats of Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, Mariano Rivera, Curt Schilling, Roger Clemens and Randy Johnson, his primary focus was to coronate Pedro Martinez as the most dominant pitcher of the era.
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People couldn't help but notice, though, that his request came right on the heels of big money deals signed by two other ace pitchers at the time, Pedro Martinez and Kevin Brown, ending his reign as the game's highest paid pitcher.
Kettmann also takes the reader to Santo Domingo, where Pedro Martinez's former coach watches the action from a sports bar, and to Kwangju, South Korea, where former Sox reliever Byung-Hyun Kim's old high school coach is watching the game at two in the morning.
Sadly, the taunts of "Who's Your Daddy" by Yankee fans to Pedro sound especially cruel in light of information supplied here by Kettman about Martinez's parents' divorce when he was a child and his subsequent guilt over their break-up.
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