ST. LOUIS — Another man might have crumpled it into a ball in the palm of his hand in a fit of rage, but not Jon Lester of the Boston Red Sox. After a giant paper airplane came to a soft landing near the pitcher's mound at Busch Stadium in the middle of a Yadier Molina at-bat Monday night, Lester handled the interruption like a gentleman. He calmly handed the plane to a St. Louis Cardinals batboy and resumed facing Molina, who lined out to second to end the seventh inning. Perhaps Lester was shaken a bit by the emergency landing.
It was the most surreal moment in an otherwise un-wacky Game 5, which the Red Sox lead 3-1 in the ninth.
But can you imagine, for example, John Lackey encountering a paper airplane? He would have stomped it like Godzilla, then set fire to it, then tried to fly it back into the stands.
Lester's airplane seemed to come from the first-base side, and appeared to be one of the leftover cards from the aborted Chevy Silverado promotion.
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