How was left handed starting pitcher Cliff Lees 2009 baseball season going?”
On June 14, 2009, Lee took a no-hitter into the 8th inning vs. St. Louis, striking out 6 and walking 2. Lee allowed 3 hits in a complete-game shutout, improving his record to 4–6 and his ERA to 2.88. Charlie Manuel named Lee his Game 1 starter for the World Series after he posted a 2–0 record in the first two rounds of the playoffs. Lee pitched a complete game in Game 1 of the 2009 World Series, winning the game 6–1 over the New York Yankees. He allowed no earned runs during this outing.He was the first pitcher since Deacon Phillippe in Game 1 of the 1903 World Series to pitch a complete game in the World Series with 10 or more strikeouts and no walks. Because Phillippe allowed two earned runs in his start, Lee was the first to do so without allowing an earned run. In his next start (Game 5), Lee earned another victory, allowing five runs and three walks while striking out three in seven innings; the Phillies won, 8–6.
View Cliff Lee’s statistics here: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/leecl02-pitch.shtml Reportedly Cliff Lee has been acquired by the Seattle Mariners: Sources: Phillies get Halladay, send Lee to Seattle An agreement is now in place to send Roy Halladay to the Phillies, Cliff Lee to the Mariners, and prospects to the Blue Jays, major-league sources confirmed to FOXSports.com. The sources said Phillipe Aumont — a Canadian right-hander — is among the players headed from Seattle to Toronto in the deal; the source added the Philadelphia is expected to send one of its outfield prospects, possibly Michael Taylor, to the Blue Jays. Outfielder Michael Saunders and right-hander Brandon Morrow were also among the Seattle prospects in play. It wasn’t immediately clear how many players would be included in the deal. One person familiar with the ta
NEW YORK — He leaped out of the dugout and sprinted to the mound in a city where October legends are born. It was the ninth inning of the first World Series start in the 31-year-old lifetime of Clifton Phifer Lee. And he gave you the impression, with every pitch he threw, and with every mad sprint back out there, that there was no place in the solar system he would rather be. What happened at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night is not supposed to happen. What Cliff Lee did to the Yankees in Game 1 of the 2009 World Series — nine innings of six-hit, zero-earned-run shutout World Series baseball — just isn’t done. Not to these Yankees. Not in this park. “What he did — that’s not easy to do against any team, much less this team,” said Phillies reliever Scott Eyre, after Lee’s latest October masterpiece — and a couple of Chase Utley Bronx rockets — had finished carrying the Phillies to a stunning 6-1 Game 1 win over CC Sabathia and the Yankees. “But especially in this park.” Right. Esp
