Red Sox second baseman, 2008 AL MVP Dustin Pedroia retires

Boston • Dustin Pedroia, the undersized and over-achieving second baseman who spurred the Boston Red Sox to a pair of World Series victories with his grit and a third, after a knee injury effectively ended his career, with his mouth, has retired.“I never took one play off, from Little League on,” Pedroia said on a videoconference with reporters on Monday. “I hope I did enough and set the right example in the city of Boston.”Pedroia, 37, was the AL Rookie of the Year