Tonight at 8:07 p.m. the St. Louis Cardinals will try to rebound from a loss in Game 4 of the World Series to the Red Sox that threw the series' home field advantage back to the Boston. Watch the pivotal Game 5 on Fox or live stream the action here. Listen to 93.7 WEEI to hear the Red Sox broadcast, or 1120 KMOX for the Cardinals.
Tonight Jon Lester toes the rubber for the Red Sox in a Game 1 rematch with Adam Wainwright of St. Louis. He outdueled Wainwright in Game 1, and has performed admirably this postseason despite a second straight regular season of production well below ace caliber.
"I don't know what it is. I like this stage," said Lester. "I like knowing that I've got to go out there and give everything I've got for my teammates, because tomorrow might be our last game. You don't know. I guess that just gives you that little extra focus."
Some may attribute illegal substances to Lester's success; a controversy brewed after the World Series opener after an odd greenish substance was found on the left-hander's glove. He denies cheating, and said the substance was rosin.
"I'm sure there's going to be focus on my glove and focus on my hands and what I'm doing, but I've got to worry about the Cardinals," Lester said. "If I'm worried about what people are looking at, I'm worried about the wrong things. I'm going to go out and pitch my game."
Wainwright, a known big-game pitcher, is trying to put his Game 1 failure behind him. His night could've gone a different route. After allowing two base runners he was victimized by a Pete Kozma error that ruined a first inning-ending double play. Instead he was rocked by the Sox.
"I honestly don't know why my mechanics were as bad as they were, my delivery was off as much as it was," Wainwright said. "But I feel like I've put a lot of good reps in in front of the mirror, and watching film and feeling my delivery again, learning the basics all over again.
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