The season just keeps getting better and better. The Rangers won tonight, 8-0. This was a game the Rangers had to have. Cliff Lee was pitching and when your ace is on the mound you don't want to waste his effort. What kind of effort? How about eight shutout innings, allowing only two hits, one walk, and thirteen strikeouts? We are witnessing a phenomenon. This has been one of the great postseason pitching efforts ever. Hopefully we will see a couple more.
I had a good feeling about this game when Josh Hamilton hit a two-run homer in the top of the first. If you stake Lee to any type of lead before he even throws a pitch he becomes that much more effective. And the Yankees looked helpless in their at bats. The shame is, from their point of view, Andy Pettite threw a great game as well. He missed on one pitch, the ome to Hamilton and that was the difference. Baseball is like that.
There has been talk that with Lee being a free agent at the end of the season he is bound for New York. In fact some act as if it is a done deal. I don't think so, yet. Lee strikes me as being someone who makes up his own mind. He appears very comfortable here and he is close to his Arkansas roots. Not every great pitcher enjoys his stay in New York, just ask Kenny Rogers and Randy Johnson.
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