Dan Shaughnessy, Globe, April 18:
Are we nearing the end for Dustin Pedroia?
No one takes any pleasure in this prospect. But there was a sense of doom and gloom when Pedroia was taken out of the lineup after flying to right field in the top of the second inning Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium.
This was the first game Pedroia started in the field since Friday at Fenway against the Orioles. His left knee has not come around the way the Sox hoped. Perhaps even more telling, Pedroia had left the building when the Sox clubhouse opened after a 5-3 loss.