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Superstitious and Cowardly Lot…

Lost in last night’s eventual loss to the St. Louis Cardinals was how well Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Jon Lester performed to keep his team in the game despite poor offense and defensive snafus. Of course, some of us may have missed exactly HOW well that performance was:

Yes @DannyMacTV I said "Lester is no-hitting the Cardinals through 6." #scoops

— Len Kasper (@LenKasper) July 7, 2015

Which, when bad things happened in the seventh inning, led to a deluge of tweets cursing Len Kasper and forcing him to address the situation.