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Baseball Musings
May 19, 2008
Lester in the Ninth

The Red Sox go quietly in the eighth, bringing out Lester to face German, Pena and DeJesus. I would not be surprised to see a pinch hitter.

Update: Lester walks German to start the inning. Surprisingly, Pena is batting, and Youkilis is holding the runner!

Pena grounds out to third on a high hopper, advancing German to second.

Update: DeJesus hits a grounder to first on a 2-2 pitch for an unassisted putout. One out to go. Lester is at 125 pitches.

Update: Lester gets ahead of Callaspo 0-2. He strikes him out on a high, outside pitch after a waste and a foul. Lester's done it! What a great story. A comeback from cancer and a no-hitter!


Posted by David Pinto at 09:26 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
Comments

WOW!!!! Great set up and pitch to end it - as soon as you saw Ellsbury make the catch with no hits I said that's how you end up with a no no. Except for that ball nothing else was even remotely close to a hit (I guess German hit a line drive in the 2nd but I was just coming in) - more winter ball though I was coming back from my sons game and it was freezing.

Posted by: bandit at May 19, 2008 09:39 PM

WOW! He only allowed 2 base runners....pitching to 27 batters - the minimum!

Posted by: SP at May 19, 2008 09:44 PM

That was simply Phenominal, Congrats to Mr Lester

Posted by: TonyO at May 19, 2008 09:45 PM

Per NESN - Jason Varitek becomes the first catcher to ever catch four no-hitters.

Adding to that potential plaque?

Posted by: Mark Haverty at May 19, 2008 09:46 PM

That was simply Phenominal, Congrats to Mr Lester

Posted by: TonyO at May 19, 2008 09:46 PM
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