Video - Lester gets his no hitter

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Baseball Today: Tuesday, May 20
Published 5/20/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
NO NO? The pitcher was Jon Lester, the opponent was the Kansas City Royals, the site was Fenway Park . . . Journal photos / Bob Breidenbach YES YES! . . . and the result was the fourth Red Sox no-hitter in the last eight seasons, and the second in 8 1/2 months. (ProJo Sox Blog) It's funny; I came in from walking the dog as the Royals were batting in the sixth inning and I knew right away -- just by the tone of Don Orsillo's voice and the phraseology he was using -- that Lester had a no-hitter. (I'd left the house in the second, and knew from ...

ModernTube: These people were at Jon Lester's no-hitter
Published 5/20/2008 at Big League Stew
It used to be that a man's word — or at least a well-worn ticket stub — was all you needed for proof of attendance at a monumental event. But like wearing fedoras and derbies in the grandstand, those days are long gone. In the year 2008, you better be posting a cameraphone video to YouTube within hours of the noted happening to confirm, in fact, that you were there. Doubt it? Well, if you visit the popular video site today, you'll find no less than eight (8!) fan shot videos from the stands in Fenway at Monday night's no-hitter from Jon Lester. As more people get home from work and find the computer ...

Jonny Ace
Published 5/20/2008 by Mike Miliard at Sox Blog
  OK, so this is how it went down. Get home, sit down, and, as is my wont, start flipping between the game and Olbermann. I’m paying only sporadic attention as I eat dinner and read a magazine, but certainly noticing that Jon boy is chugging right along. Around the middle sixth, I see the Roy als still haven’t plated a run. “Nice outing so far for Lester,” I remark to the Sox Blogette. At this moment, I still have not processed quite what’s transpiring. A bit later, she and I head out ...