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CHICAGO -- Jon Lester and the Red Sox can live with this pace, one loss every 10 starts. The distinction of being undefeated in the Red Sox rotation now rests exclusively with Clay Buchholz, who will be putting his 6-0 record on the line Wednesday...

CHICAGO -- Jon Lester's teammates would not let him go down to defeat without putting up a fight. Down 5-0 after two innings, Lester having served up a three-run home run to White Sox strongman Adam Dunn in the first and three two-out doubles that...

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

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- So, what future accusations lie in wait for Jon Lester? After spitballs for Clay Buchholz and steroids for David Ortiz, surely there is some manner of chicanery to which we can link the Red Sox left-hander, now 6-0 after breez...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A few quick hits from Tropicana Field, where Jon Lester will be making his first start since throwing a one-hit shutout against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night in Fenway Park: * Lester is 3-0 with a 1.82 ERA (7 ER/34...

BOSTON -- One moment, Jon Lester was working on a perfect game. The next, he was trying to survive. It can change that fast when it's the sixth inning, Maicer Izturis is standing on second base after hitting a good pitch -- a changeup down and awa...

BOSTON -- Nine days before the fifth anniversary of his no-hitter, Jon Lester allowed just one of 28 Toronto batters to reach safely Friday night in Fenway Park in the Boston Red Sox's 4-0 win over the Blue Jays. Lester gave up a two-out double to...

TORONTO -- As written, the Official Rules of Baseball can occasionally be difficult to decipher, the language convoluted and the logic difficult to follow. This was not one of those times. The rule is 5.09. The relevant subsection is (b). It state...

The past two times the Sox sported MLB's best April record? 2004 and 2007.

Mike Napoli and other members of the Boston Red Sox reacted to Monday's bombings of the Boston Marathon.

Greetings from the Edes cave, and a few random thoughts on the day after an enormously satisfying home opener for the Red Sox: * Yes, Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz have earned praise for the way they have pitched through the first week of the seaso...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Jon Lester insists that his calendar remains open on April 1. "I know we're in New York," he says. Lester says there have been no texts, no phone calls, no conversations, no white smoke billowing from the Sox clubhouse at th...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Takeaways from the Fort, where manager John Farrell still resists publicly anointing Jon Lester his Opening Day pitcher, a mere formality as the Sox left-hander threw six perfect innings Sunday afternoon in a 5-1 win against the T...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Takeaways from the Fort, where one intrasquad game in college at Rice University is all the third base Brock Holt ever played before Boston's 9-3 spring training loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday afternoon. Naturally,...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Takeaways from the Fort, where it took all of one pitch for new first baseman Mike Napoli to be tested at first base, and where the ghost of Julian Tavarez was invoked by Jon Lester: * The last notes of the anthem had barely fa...

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- The stat analysts at Baseball Prospectus, who have devised their own system to project future player performance, have identified Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia and pitcher Jon Lester among the 5 position players and pi...