Red Sox rookie pitcher Lester battling lymphoma
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Rookie pitcher Jon Lester has a form   of lymphoma and will begin treatment this week, the Boston Red   Sox announced on Friday.
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Perhaps the most amazing thing about Jon Lester's victory in the World Series-clinching game less than a year after finishing cancer treatment is that his doctors weren't that surprised.
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The Boston Red Sox placed starter Tim Wakefield on the 15-day disabled list Saturday because of a stress fracture in the area of his rib cage.
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The infield at Fenway Park was covered with a dirty white tarp on a dreary day. Unless the Boston Red Sox start winning soon, the gloom will last all winter. The Red Sox returned home Thursday after losing the first two games of the AL championship series to the Yankees in New York. As its workout began, Boston announced ace Curt Schilling's ailing ankle will prevent him from pitching Game 5 and perhaps the rest of the postseason.
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The Boston Red Sox used an early offensive barrage, some clutch relief pitching and a gritty outing by ailing starter Jon Lester to end their longest losing streak of the season.
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Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester, a promising left-handed rookie diagnosed with cancer last season, said on Tuesday he would end chemotherapy after a sixth treatment this month before reporting for spring training.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. - Winning the deciding game of the World Series, the part everyone else remembers and celebrates, he doesn't dwell on, maybe because Jon Lester is determined to be known as something other than Celebrity Cancer Boy.
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Bronson Arroyo, the Red Sox pitcher whom Alex Rodriguez twice referred to as Brandon Arroyo last week, promised that he would pitch inside against the Yankees last night. He calmly explained why it was a necessity. Do it or be destroyed, Arroyo intimated.
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A week before the playoffs begin, the New York Yankees are worried about the health of another starting pitcher. This time, it's Orlando Hernandez.
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The greatest worry about the auction of the bat Babe Ruth swung to hit the first home run in Yankee Stadium &#151; against the Boston Red Sox, of all teams &#151; is that this brown beauty of a Louisville Slugger could wind up in the wrong hands.
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Boston Red Sox rookie left-hander Jon Lester has a form of lymphoma and will start treatment in the coming week, the team announced Friday.
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Understandably, the home clubhouse at Fenway Park has been a somber place of late, with the club still shellshocked by the health concerns of two teammates.
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Lefthander Jon Lester will make his 2007 spring training debut in a B game against minor leaguers Monday at 10 a.m.
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With the decision yesterday to option Jon Lester to Double A Portland for one start, the Red Sox gained a lefthander out of the bullpen, something they didn't have last season during a crushing five-game sweep at the hands of the Yankees, who have plenty of lefthanded firepower on offense. The Sox have a three-game series against the ...
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While Kason Gabbard was preparing to make a start in the place he made his big-league debut last season, Washington native son Jon Lester was enduring one of the worst starts of his minor league career last night in Louisville, Ky.
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White Sox closer Bobby Jenks threw nine pitches last night in Chicago's opening spring training game before being taken out against Colorado because of tightness in his right shoulder.
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Red Sox rookie pitcher Jon Lester paid a visit to Fenway Park yesterday afternoon after calling to say he was coming, and spent about an hour visiting with teammates before appearing in the team's interview room and announcing that tomorrow he will begin undergoing chemotherapy for cancer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.