Kyle Hendricks Gets Back into Rhythm of Game with Professorial Debut

Kyle Hendricks hopes to be more consistent earlier in the season in 2020. (AP Photo/Kamil Krzaczynski)Spring training results don’t matter. That said, it’s hard to avoid getting down when Jon Lester fails to record a fourth out before allowing a fifth run. So if the bad taste from Tuesday’s start lingered any longer for you than it did for Lester himself, Kyle Hendricks’ effort Wednesday was a welcome palate cleanser.

It was a perfect study in contrasts, since Lester is learning to live with the kind of lower velocity Hendricks could only dream of reaching. Seriously, Hendricks couldn’t even win his own jersey at one of those fastball booths they have on carnival midways. Not that he’d need…