Nothing is certain in baseball.
Not Babe Ruth's home run record. Or Lou Gehrig's consecutive-game streak. Or the mastery of the incomparable Pedro Martinez. And a Sox matchup with the Royals that any sober student of the game would have projected as a sure thing for the boys from Boston suddenly was as uncertain as the path of a Missouri twister. But Martinez, who was roughed up for six runs in the first two innings, staged a spectacular recovery, shutting down the Royals on one hit over the next six innings.