BOSTON—OK, that’s an overly sunny headline. It doesn’t look all that good out there. Cold (39 with the wind chill), gray and nasty once again.

But the good news is the rain that has fallen over town all morning and into the afternoon finally has moved out. As I type, the Fenway Park grounds crew is finishing the laborious process of rolling up the tarp that had covered the field since last night’s game ended early this morning.

And the word from the Sox is this game is expected to start on time. We’ll hold them to it, by God. Yesterday was not a terribly pleasant experience.

Besides, we’d better see some baseball today because tomorrow doesn’t look real promising. The nice folks at weather.com have pegged it at a 70 percent chance of rain tomorrow with rain early and showers in the afternoon. I can’t imagine how Scott Kazmir would feel if he had to wait a couple more days to pitch after waiting this long.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s focus on today, as James Shields looks to match that two-hit, complete-game shutout he weaved Sunday at the Trop.

More to come later…