When a guy gets his own twitter feed due to the popularity of his postseason stats (#cliffleestats) you gotta believe that its fo' real. Personally, I never wanted to bite on the mass appeal of Cliff Lee in the postseason, but after that man handling of the most productive offense in baseball, I now am an believer too.
Directly following that 2-run shot from Josh "your next spokesman for Schweppes" Hamilton, Lee decided to forgo allowing the Yanks to play ball. He went 8 strong, allowing 2 hits and 1 walk. It was similar to a game of cat and mouse, except the cat was Garfield 3d and the mouse was barely a Mexican jumping bean.
So the Yanks find themselves in a 2-1 deficit with Mr. Useless, AJ "trust me, I got it this time" Burnett on the mound tonight. The yankees starting pitching as been fine, but its their bats that have been an issue. They stole game 1 late- not unusual- and yesterday they should have just let the Scranton JV team pinch hit for them.
Can anything good be taken away from last night? Sure, the fact that Lee passed the test and won over Yankee fans to the point of a $400 million dollar contract this offseason. Blame the resin, blame the cold, blame whatever, but that damn split finger fastball is gonna be laughin' all the way to the bank.
Time to get it together or else. If AJ blows it, he'll be a Met next year and if the Yanks blow it, Girardi's gone.
I hate using the term "must-win" but it couldn't be more applicable. Cmon Bombers, do it fo' ya fans!
Good thing we'll only have to see Lee once more in the series, otherwise, there would be a lot more of these expressions:
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