BOSTON — Only one of the starting pitchers in Wednesday night's World Series Game 1 has been here before. He started a World Series game and won it. A World Series-clinching game, no less. And it's ...

CHICAGO -- Cubs pitcher Jon Lester broke out of the longest hitless streak to begin an MLB career on Monday with his first regular-season hit in his 67th at-bat. With two outs and two men on base in a ...

Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon believes winning the MLB World Series is now a possibility following Jon Lester's arrival. Pitcher Lester was officially unveiled by the Cubs on Monday after signing a ...

BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox traded ace pitcher Jon Lester and outfielder Jonny Gomes to the Oakland Athletics not with an eye to the distant future, but to next season, acquiring slugger Yoenis ...

BOSTON — In the jovial Boston Red Sox clubhouse after their 8-1 win Wednesday night in Game 1 of the World Series, cameras and tape recorders and the people who hold them gathered around catcher David ...

1933 – Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis announces that he is cutting his salary by 40 percent. Landis’s action is a sign of the times during the Great Depression; most players will have their ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Oakland Athletics' combination of Jon Lester and Josh Donaldson was too much for the Kansas City Royals. Lester pitched six strong innings and Donaldson homered twice and drove ...

BOSTON -- And on what likely was his last day in a Red Sox uniform, Jon Lester grabbed a bat. The Red Sox are going to St. Louis next week to play the National League's Cardinals, an interleague ...

CHICAGO -- Jon Lester says he believes in the Chicago Cubs' plan and is ready to try to help bring them their first championship since 1908. "We fully buy in,"Lester said. A three-time All-Star who ...