Cliff Lee Dares You To Hit His Fast Ball

Has anyone pitched with more control this year than Cliff Lee?

I've never seen someone get as many strikeouts as Cliff Lee has, based on control alone.

He's spotting his fastball on the corner, to the point where these guys just don't want to swing at it. They can't hit it, or at least they hope it's a ball.

But it ain't!

Here's the line for you tonight.

8 innings, 4 hits, 1 silly run, 1 walk, 11 sit-downs and here was his strike-ball ratio.

79 strikes to 32 balls.

That's over 7o % strikes. For every 10 pitches he threw, he only threw three balls.

That doesn't even equal a walk.

One of his better outings, despite the earned run in my mind. Cliff was at his best tonight.

What can you say about that Jamey Carroll guy though? His average is up to .293, he knocked in two runs tonight with a triple and a single.

Mr. Cleanup hitter Jhonny Peralta had a two run double to finish that up. I was going to seriously destroy him if he didnt come through in that situation.

Ryan Garko was bumped to the 8th hole.. If that doesn't tick him off and ignite him, I don't know what will.

It wasn't even Jumpin' Joe tonight.. We had 9 pitch three out Joe... That was even with an error by Blake.. Four hitters, 9 pitches, bing bang boom.

I'm feeling good now.. We got this good news about making one more run at C.C. We avoided the sweep. We got those silly Reds coming in, interleague play hasn't been kind to us, and we need to end it.. Luckily we've won the past two interleague weekend series matchups after droping the middle of the week ones..

Won SD, Lost Colorado, Won LA, Los SF.. Let's keep up the trend here.

Tomorrow to kick it off, it's DA BIGUN.. C.C. Sabathia faces off against a dude named Daryl Thompson. Making his second start of the season.

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