Jon Lester hit a 419-foot home run to center last night. Did he know it was gone off the bat?
“Well, either it was going out or I was getting throw out at second,” Lester said, “one of the two. I definitely wasn’t hustling out of the box. It was hot.”
The homer made the 37-year-old southpaw, “the oldest pitcher (37 years old) to homer in a game since Bartolo Colon did it on May 7th, 2016 against the Padres at 42 years old,” as the ESPN Stats & Info Twitter account noted last night.