Pedroia Has Surgery

Dustin Pedroia played the final two months of the season with a broken hand helping the Sox capture their second World Series title in four years.

The broken bone was the same as what kept Wily Mo Pena out for two months back in 2006.

Pedroia doesn't know when he suffered the break but it was revealed in an MRI in early September.

“Some days I would wake up and it would be hard to grip a bat,” Pedroia said. “I changed my grip a little bit on the bat and went from there. It was just one of those things you know you have to take care of after the season, but you have to play through. A lot of guys have done that. You definitely don’t want to shut it down and have surgery during the whole thing. We just had to find a way to fight through it.”

He's restricted from using the hand until early December.

It's possible he suffered the break on August 22 when Tampa Bay's Edwin Jackson hit him on the hand, Pedroia left that game but didn't miss any time.