Cliff Lee had the silent Yankee fans begging for a rain delay last night as he outdueled C.C Sabathia and hurled the first complete game in a World Series since Beckett in game 6 of '03 to take game 1 of the Fall Classic....
Lee threw an absolute gem going the distance and whiffing 10 in the process....the Bombers looked absolutely befuddled and Cliff Lee acted as if he was pitching in a Spring training game with the ho-hum catch in the 7th and behind the back snag in the 8th...
My hat goes off to C.C as well...He threw alot of pitches in the first inning and only made two mistakes after that...2 Solo Shots to Chase Utley...the second dinger was the dagger....it definitely felt like the game was more out of reach than it really was...
How ineffective is Brian Bruney? He was throwing meatballs last night and I feel as if Girardi is immediately regretting his decision to throw him on the ALCS Roster...Freddy Guzman may have looked better on the mound than he did last night...
62% of the teams that have taken Game 1 have gone on to win the World Series; including each team since 2003...If not labeling tonight as a "must-win", but the Yanks will definitely be in some trouble going down 2-0 with the next 3 in Philly and Hamels and Lee waiting in the wings for games 3 and 4...
Tonight we get Pedro going up against A.J Burnett...Pedro looked solid in the NLCS, but he's not the same guy he was 5 years ago...You never really know what you'll get out of A.J, but for Yankee fans' sake he better show up tonight...
Nick Swisher has been pulled from the starting lineup in favor of Hairston and this move was absolutely necessary because he has had a miserable postseason hitting a miserable .114...hopefully it's a wake-up call..
If they do go down 2-0, down worry Yankee fans...just think of '96...I do think the Yanks will tie it up tonight tho...
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