A near-Perfect Performance

We were on the fringe of witnessing history on Saturday night when Jon Lester took the ball and toed the Rubber for our beloved Red Sox. Reminiscent of last year against the KC Royals Lester's only competition were the goals set for himself.

Lester, in a word, Dazzled, the Texas hitters for a complete game two hitter, which included being PERFECT through 6 1/3 innings. No-Hitters are hard enough to come by but this hard throwing lefty spit at that and said, "perfection is what I'm after." Well maybe in a more quiet, subdued not talking sort of way but nonetheless it was there.

Further solidifying the move by Theo "the boy genius" Epstein in signing J Les as we'll call him, being that he's probably going to put out a rap album soon, to a long term deal, J Les has found has groove. It was never gone. It took a No-No last year to right his ship for an unprecedented run of excellence and last weekends Blue Jay series may have been his turning point.

Straight dealing was Lester and his 2nd 10 strikeout performance in as many outings. His fastball was surgically located, his curveball had more break and more bite than I have seen in ANY outing thus far in his career, that cutter one word; lethal, and he even incorporated the Change piece. Kid was money tonight and look for him to rattle off HUGE numbers here on in.

In a small side note because Lester was CLEARLY the story tonight, David Ortiz has started blinking from his season long coma, although I'm not sure if it wasn't just a random tic he could be showing signs of life.

Stay tuned

Ryan