Lester's no-no shows up Yankee youth

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Congratulations to Jon Lester on his no-hitter tonight against the Royals, which can only serve to further infuriate Hank Steinbrenner knowing now that Lester and Clay Buchholz each have thrown a no-no while Ian Kennedy and Phil Hughes have yet to accomplish a thing in the major leagues. I don’t know if they’d even make the movie of the kid coming back from cancer to pitch a no-hitter if it was a work of fiction, but that’s Lester’s incredible story, and he shut down a very ... [link]

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MLB’s Holy Moly Monday
Published 5/20/2008 by Derrick Goold at Bird Land » Bird Land
... (ESPN.com). … It was the first complete game of Lester’s career. … And the Red Sox getting a second no-hitter in less than 45 games at Fenway Park from a young, in-house-developed pitcher probably really ticked off the Yankees. ...

Jonny Ace
Published 5/20/2008 by Mike Miliard at Sox Blog
... no-no’s in baseball have come courtesy of Red Sox prospects. (We’re making the Yanks’ much-vaunted youth infusion look piddling by comparison.) ...

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