Pedro's back, but not as a bachelor

Single when he was with the Sox, Pedro Martinez has returned to town a married man, having gotten hitched last fall to Carolina Cruz. Pedro, who'll take the mound for the Mets tonight, actually met Cruz while he was the ace of the Sox staff and she was a lowly communications major at Boston College. (The lovebirds used to frequent Fugakyu Japanese Cuisine in Brookline.) A native of Santo Domingo, the stunning Cruz kept a very low profile at BC, graduating in '02. She worked briefly as a reporter for ESPN Deportes and now writes a weekly column called Major League Women for Listin Diario, a daily newspaper in the Dominican Republic. According to a recent piece in The New York Times, Martinez and the missis still keep a place in Boston but live in a sprawling Tudor revival in Greenwich, Conn.

Fired up over Affleck film shoot

It's not every night Norma Rodberg hears gunshots, but then Ben Affleck isn't always outside her window filming ``Gone, Baby, Gone." The Cambridge-bred actor is directing the movie version of Dennis Lehane's novel, and early yesterday Rodberg and her West Quincy neighbors got caught in the crossfire. Well, sort of. Unaware that Affleck would be filming overnight at the Granite Links Golf Club at Quarry Hills, Rodberg was awoken at 1 a.m. by the sound of simulated gunplay. ``I was scared," said Rodberg, one of several local residents who complained to Quincy cops. ``I thought, `Oh my God, a stray bullet.' " We're told the film crew did, in fact, have the necessary permits to, er, shoot but not everyone in the neighborhood had been notified. The miscommunication was caused in part by the recent heavy rains, which changed the shooting schedule. The movie crews were scheduled to return to the golf course for more filming last night.

Tony V. is low-key about ‘Brotherhood’

Boston comic Tony V. isn't taking anything for granted. "Apparently we have a TV show, and it appears to be going along," he said at Monday's Providence premiere of the Showtime series ``Brotherhood," filmed entirely in Rhode Island. ``That's the way it looks, but you know you don't want to assume anything," said V., who plays a Providence cop in the series that airs Sundays beginning July 9. He was joined at the premiere by Boston native Kevin Chapman, who has a starring role in the series, Scituate resident Bates Wilder, and West Roxbury native Brian Scannell. ``It's incredible to be here with this," said Scannell, whose father, Bob, a Boston police officer, was also at the opening-night events. `` `Brotherhood' is a great series," Wilder said. ``I hope people give it a chance." Also attending the screening were Showtime's CEO, Matthew C. Blank; Aerosmith band members Joey Kramer and Brad Whitford; and Jason Clarke, one of the show's lead actors.

Before she could beat it out of town, Bosox chief legal officer Lucinda Treat was toasted by the team brass the other night. Raising a glass at Game On! were John and Peggy Henry, Tom Werner, GM Theo Epstein, and a slew of local legal eagles, including Cheryl Cronin and Tom Kiley. Treat's bound for the Big Apple, where she'll work for Cablevision CEO James Dolan, whose holdings include the Knicks and Madison Square Garden. . . . The Hatch Shell should be shaking July 4 when Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry take the stage with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops. Yesterday, the bad boys of Boston rock announced the set list, and it features a few of their big hits, including ``Dream On," ``Walk This Way," and Diane Warren's ``I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," which was on the ``Armageddon" soundtrack.

Former ``JAG" star David James Elliott joined former Patriots QB Doug Flutie at a fund-raiser Monday night at the Hyatt Regency in Boston to benefit the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism . . . . Former Mets player Keith Hernandez, who now does color commentary for Mets games on SportsNet New York , stopped by the Union Oyster House yesterday for a late lunch of oysters. A crew from the ``Mets Weekly" TV show also stopped by to shoot video for a pre-game show. . . . Former Massachusetts governor and onetime New York gubernatorial hopeful Bill Weld was spotted on the 2:30 p.m. Delta shuttle to New York City.

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