Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 20, 2008
The Gamer

We're lucky enough to have Gordon Edes still writing for The Boston Globe. He writes the gamer on Lester's no hitter. Fellow cancer survivor Mike Lowell sums up Lester's night quite well:

"His story is a good story as it is," said Sox third baseman Mike Lowell, who was among the gleeful throng of teammates that engulfed Lester after he struck out Alberto Callaspo for the final out of a 7-0 win over the Royals witnessed by a sellout crowd of 37,746 likely to grow exponentially in the years to come. "But to add a no-hitter to it, it adds something great to the story.

"I think people will now remember what he did tonight on the mound as something special, instead of he's a young kid who had cancer. It shows his ability has come full circle. Besides the no-hitter, he shows he can really shut down a team, because he has that kind of stuff."

I like this quote from Lester on what he was throwing last night:

"The last at-bat? To be honest, I don't even remember," Lester said. "I do know that early in the at-bat he fouled off a good curveball and a good cutter. We'd be doing that all night, throwing the four-seam cutter in, then try to go with the four-seam fastball away. We got some swings and misses and some bad contact."

When pitchers and coaches talk about pitching to contact, they really should be talking about pitching to bad contact. That's fooling the batter enough that they don't miss, but don't get good wood on the ball either. If you saw the ninth inning, the first two outs were on poorly contacted balls that were easy plays for the infielders. Great execution by Lester Monday night.


Posted by David Pinto at 07:58 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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