CINCINNATI -- Wednesday may have been Jon Lester's last regular-season start, but the Cubs left-hander is not ready to finish pitching this year.
Making his 32nd start, Lester struck out nine over eight innings in a 10-3 victory over the Reds and accomplished his personal goal of reaching 200 innings. He also set the franchise record for single-season strikeouts by a left-hander, finishing with 207, which tops Ken Holtzman's 1970 record of 202. It's the fourth time in Lester's career that he's reached 200 K's in a season.
"He was pretty much unhittable," Cubs manager Joe Maddon said of Lester's final 5 2/3 innings, when he retired the last 20 batters he faced.