When the baseball leaves his left hand on its way to the plate, the Chicago Cubs ace is dominant, particularly in October. [...] on Tuesday night the man who first noticed the troubling signs and tried to shield it from view will try to exploit it when Lester starts Game 1 of the World Series against manager Terry Francona and the Cleveland Indians. Lester grew tired of trying to explain something the inexplicable, particularly for a pitcher whose typically solid control only seems to improve in lockstep with the stakes — he's 3-0 in three World Series starts with a sparkling 0.43 ERA. [...] Cubs manager Joe Maddon decided to take some of the onus on Lester this spring and instead make controlling the running game a collective effort. What Jon does as good as anybody in major league baseball is throw the ball from the mound to the plate, that's it. In Game 5 of the NLCS, the Dodgers' Enrique Hernandez worked a walk leading off the first inning then faked a dash to second only to pull back at the last second. Down a pair of runs in the seventh inning, Joc Pederson nearly went full Usain Bolt, turning to face second base while lining up like a sprinter. Cleveland's 143 stolen bases led the American League, with Rajai Davis taking an AL-best 43 on his own.