Lester's effort helps Sox win battle

BOSTON -- Jon Lester's 121st pitch Saturday afternoon was a 58-foot curveball that bounced toward the backstop and allowed a go-ahead run to score from third base. His 124th and final offering was a 94 mph fastball that struck out Mark Reynolds to end the seventh.

6 minutes ago | Tony Lee, Special to ESPNBoston.com |

MLB - Lester's Outing vs Indians

In his 7 IP, Jon Lester allowed 10 hits while recording 8 strikeouts vs Indians (both season highs). He is the 1st Red Sox pitcher to allow 10+ hits while recording 8+ strikeouts AT HOME since Tim Wakefield on July 8, 2009 (Red Sox won 5-4). Lester is the 1st pitcher to allow 10+ hits while recording 8+ strikeouts AT HOME vs the Indians since Gary Peters on May 15, 1970 (Red Sox lost 0-3).

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White Sox Spoil Lester's Perfect Start

The White Sox handed Jon Lester (6-1) his first loss of the season with a 6-4 win over the Red Sox. In recent seasons, Chicago posted similar wins over previously undefeated opposing starters: over Trevor Cahill in 2011 (6-0), Carlos Silva in 2010 (8-0), Rich Harden in 2008 (5-0), and Silva in 2004 (5-0).

Edes: For these Sox, it's about accountability

Jon Lester learned the hard way that "you've got to fail in order to succeed."

about 4 days ago | Gordon Edes |

Lester Improves To 6-0

Nomar Garciaparra and Sean McDonough recap the Red Sox ending the Rays' six-game winning streak.

Lester's Masterpiece A Treat For Fenway Fans

From Elias: Jon Lester allowed only one base runner -- Maicer Izturis stroked a double in the sixth inning - in a complete-game 5-0 victory over the Blue Jays in front of the Fenway Faithful. Lester became only the second Red Sox pitcher to throw a complete-game shutout of nine-or-more innings at Fenway Park in which he allowed as few as one hit and walked none. The only other Boston pitcher to do that in Fenway's 102 seasons was Hideo Nomo, who threw a one-hitter of that type, also against the Blue Jays, on May 25, 2001. (Two Red Sox pitchers had one-hit, no-walk, complete-game shutouts of nine-plus innings in the early days of the franchise, when the team played its home games at Huntington Avenue Grounds: Ray Collins in 1910 and Cy Young himself in 1908. Young also threw a perfect game at Huntington Avenue Grounds in 1904.) Lester boosted his career won-lost record to 90-48, joining 10 other pitchers who earned their first 90 big-league victories for the Red Sox. But no pitcher had done that since Roger Clemens won his 90th back in 1989. Three of the 10 others got to 90 wins did so with fewer than 50 losses: Clemens (90-42), Mel Parnell (90-47) in 1952 and Smoky Joe Wood (90-48) in 1913.

MLB - 1st day in modern MLB history

Friday May 10 was the first day in modern baseball history (since 1900) in which 2 pitchers threw shutouts allowing 1 hit or fewer while walking 0 batters on the same day.