Jon Lester may have been listening to the negativity surrounding him lately and socked those collective few nay-sayers in the mouth with a one hitter over 8 innings helping Boston to a 1-0 win over the Blue Jays.
Kevin Youkilis drove home the lgame winning run on a single to center field that Vernon Wells bobbled a bit allowing David Ortiz to easily score from second base. That may have been the tying run if it were not for Dustin Pedroia in the top of the ninth.
With Scott Rolen on second base and two outs Wells lined a shot past Jonathan Papelbon barely missing his head that looked destined for center field and an RBI for Wells, but Pedroia made a diving stop to his right picking the ball out of the air and firing it to first to the end the inning.
Pedroia did jam his shoulder on the play and there is no confirmation on if Dusty is ok or not.
Star of the Game: Easily – Jon Lester
After all the talk of Lester not being Major League ready, again, and pitching against Roy Halladay who had a stellar outing tonight in his own right (8 2/3 innings, one earned run, one walk, six strikeouts) Lester fired back with 8 innings of shutout ball striking out six but walking four.
Preview of Next Game: I understand we faced Halladay tonight,
BUT can we get some offense already. Daisuke Matsuzaka will start tomorrow for Boston after missing his last start due to the flu. Dice-K was on a roll before he was scratched from his start so hopefully he will not take a detour tomorrow night.
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