Jon Lester told reporters after his 5 1⁄3-inning, 86-pitch outing against the Pittsburgh Pirates last week that he made some adjustments heading into the start after struggling to go deep in his previous two turns in the rotation.
“Made some adjustments, and was able to kind of get back to some of the place that I was earlier when I came back,” Lester explained, “... so it was better results, would have liked some quicker innings early on, and we managed to get through it and kind of navigate our way through.