GAME ONE – CLIFF AND CHASE SET THE PACE

by Max Blue

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                        For those who had doubts,

                        Note C-Lee’s arm and C-Ut’s clouts.

                        The mystique of Yankee Stadium,

                        Lost in Phil’s radioactive radium,

                        And just enough,”Let’s go Phillies!” shouts

                        Sabathia and Lee duked it out,

                        The difference: Utley hit two out.

                        Lee in command all the way,

                        A ten K, no walks day.

                        Any doubt what this game’s all about?

Wednesday, October 28, 2009. Yankee Stadium, the Bronz, New York.

Philadelphia – 6, New York Yankees – 1.

WP – Cliff Lee (3-0), LP – CC Sabathia (3-1).

HR – Utley – 2 (31), 3^rd, 6^th.

Cliff Lee, the Phillies’ gold-plated, ice-water veined, lefthander dismissed a Yankee team that led the majors in wins, homers, and runs, with cool disdain, fanning 10, including the ballyhooed Alex Rodriguez, the fearsome A-Rod, three times. Lee was machine-like in command of at least four pitches – 4-seam fastball, 2-seam fastball, spiked curve ball, cutter, and changeup. Did I say four? The Yankees’ run came in the 9^th inning on an error by Jimmy Rollins that Lee shrugged off with K’s of A-Rod and Posada to end it.

CC Sabathia, the mountainous Yankee lefty, was almost as good but for two fastballs that Chase Utley  hit into the rightfield bleachers.

Next up: Game two. Pedro Martinez for Philadelphia, A.J. Burnett for New York. In a pre-first- game press conference, Pedro announced to the New York writers, and the world, that he, Pedro Martinez, might be the most influential player that ever stepped in Yankee Stadium. Any questions?