Vintage Lester
firebrandal.com 4/21/2009 — "Vintage Lester dominates Orioles" read the headline after Sunday's 2-1 Red Sox victory over Baltimore. While headlines are known for hyperbole, by definition, Jon Lester's third and best start of 2009 was vintage. vin-tage : adjective (1) representing the high quality of a past time (2) ...

Lester vows changes ahead, and to work himself back to success
soxblog.projo.com 5/17/2009 — For a time, earlier this season, Jon Lester didn't think he was pitching badly, no matter what the numbers said. Often, he wasn't; it seemed like he would be cruising along, and one little thing would go wrong, and the wheels would come off. But ...

5th Inning Strikes Again
outincenterfield.com 5/27/2009 — If the word “pentaphobia” doesn’t yet exist in the Oxford English Dictionary, it might need to be added very soon — along with a little tiny picture beside it of Jon Lester watching Justin Morneau’s moonshot sail over ...

Is Lester A Different Pitcher?
tylersarticles.blogspot.com 7/3/2009 — Boston Red Sox left-hander Jon Lester capped off an excellent June performance on Monday night. Lester scattered just five hits over seven shutout innings to lead Boston to a series-opening win over the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. He struck out eight without walking a batter, lowering ...

Is Lester A Different Pitcher?
mvn.com 7/3/2009 — Boston Red Sox left-hander Jon Lester capped off an excellent June performance on Monday night. Lester scattered just five hits over seven shutout innings to lead Boston to a series-opening win over the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards. He struck out eight without walking a batter, lowering ...

Troubles continue in Sox loss
bostonherald.com 5/27/2009 — M INNEAPOLIS - The Red Sox [ team stats ] found at least a temporary solution for David Ortiz [ stats ] disappointing 2009 season by dropping him in the batting order. The next most pressing task is to come up with a game plan for generating better ...

Why Jon Lester Will Have a Dominant Second Half
myteamrivals.typepad.com 7/11/2009 — Jon Lester had potentially his best start of the 2009 campaign Saturday night against the Kansas City Royals at Fenway. Lester who has historically owned the Royals (1.20 career ERA), and has been historically dominant at home (19-5 at Fenway), carved up the Royals for eight shutout ...

Time for Lester's inevitable visit to the DL?
firebrandal.com 5/16/2009 — Careful was exactly what the Red Sox organization wanted to be, when it came to Jon Lester for the 2009 season.  Lester's workload increased heavily as he pitched the Red Sox well into the 2008 postseason.  And everyone inside and outside the organization knew that his innings were ...

Lester, despite a hiccup, paves the way for Sox win with 10 Ks
soxblog.projo.com 5/5/2009 — Jon Lester picked a good time to come out with some of the best stuff he's had all year. In the first Red Sox appearance in the new Yankee stadium, Lester was a strikeout machine, punching out ten batters, equalling his career high. Lester set the ...

The wheels fall off the Lester wagon... again
bottomlinesox.com 5/27/2009 — Jon Lester's frustration level has to be approaching Big Papi levels right now. Once again he battled through the first through innings, getting strikeouts and throwing goose eggs on the scorboard... but when the Twins got their third look at Lester they exploded for 5 quick runs. And with ...

Tim Wakefield: Red Sox Ace? No, Red Sox Savior — Bleacher Report - MLB 5/20/2009
The Red Sox, mired in an awful 2-6 start to the 2009 season, was in the last game of a miserable West Coast trip.  On the mound was Tim Wakefield.   Josh Beckett and Jon Lester, the co-aces, were beaten around by the Angels and ...

Red Sox-Blue Jays: Boston Quiets Critics with a Second Straight Win over Toronto — Bleacher Report - MLB 5/21/2009
The reason many athletes refrain from reading the newspapers or listen to sports radio talk shows, is to ensure that they, themselves don't buy into the hype. As fans and media personalities it is our self appointed reason for being to provide ...

Let Big Papi Leave With Dignity — Bleacher Report - MLB 5/21/2009
He may have hit his first home run of the season last night, and that may help turn his season around, but let's face facts.  David Ortiz is no longer the greatest clutch hitter in baseball.  He's not the best hitter on the Red Sox.  ...

For David Ortiz, The Mission Is Home Run No. 2 — Bleacher Report - MLB 5/21/2009
The relief, satisfaction and glee that poured through Red Sox Nation Wednesday night was palpable through our TV sets. David Ortiz finally broke out of his home run drought with a near-400-footer to center field, and sent the city into a frenzy. ...

A Penny for My Thoughts: Brad Penny and Other Opinions Around the MLB — Bleacher Report - MLB 5/21/2009
Through all the hoopla about David Ortiz finally hitting his first homer of the season (319 players have hit at least one home run before him), there was Brad Penny tossing one of his best games of the season.   He had 6.2 innings pitched, ...