Cliff Lee
Cliff Lee
Clifton Phifer "Cliff" Leeis an American professional baseball starting pitcher who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseballfor the Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Phillies, Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers. He stands 6 feet 3 inchesand weighs 205 pounds. He was born in Benton, Arkansas. Lee played baseball at Benton High School and attended Meridian Community College and the University of Arkansas before being drafted by the Montreal Expos in the twentieth round of the 2000 draft...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth30 August 1978
CityBenton, AR
It wasn't that bad of a pitch, but it wasn't exactly where I wanted it. He's on fire. You have to tip your hat to him.
It's time for me to stop talking about it and focus on pitching. I hope to be around here a long time. I want to be around here a long time and they want me around here.
They beat us every way possible -- hitting, pitching and defense.
We're going to price according to what the market dictates.
We wanted to win this series and we got that done. To get out ahead of that team for the first time in a long time, that's a good thing.
I just play to win. I play to be competitive; that's it. I think every player hopes that they do something special that everyone remembers later in life, or whatever. But that's not why we're playing. At least, that's not why I play.
I got to play with some of the best players in the game, from Victor Martinez and Travis Hafner and Grady Sizemore in Cleveland, to here with Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels. Obviously, to Seattle with Ichiro and Felix Hernandez, and then to Texas with Josh Hamilton, Ian Kinsler, Mike Young. It was a great experience. Without being traded I never could have gotten to do any of that.?
I really have never been nervous in the big leagues.
Everybody wants to know, 'How do you throw a curveball, how do you throw a slider, how do you throw this and that,' when they can't even locate a fastball. Learn how to control your fastball and then once you've got that, move on to other things.
It is about doing skills, but it also really about teamwork, following directions and so forth.
They finally caught up with me that inning. I felt I was still making my pitches, but they kept fighting pitches off.
You can't miss over the plate with him -- him and Manny both. That's their team. Usually, Ortiz puts a pretty good swing on me.
They're the team to beat. We want to knock them out of first.
I give up two and Victor gets us back. That was huge. It was like he erased what I did and we were back to 0-0.