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
I try not to complicate things at all.
It wasn't that bad of a pitch. It wasn't exactly where I wanted it. He's seeing the ball good and making solid contact.
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.
They're the team to beat. We want to knock them out of first.
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.
Obviously, they are the team to beat. This puts them behind us for the first time in a long time.
We're all confident right now. Everybody is pitching well. Everybody is hitting well. We keep swinging like this, and I don't see a whole lot changing.
It is about doing skills, but it also really about teamwork, following directions and so forth.
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.
I got it done today. I really didn't have my 'A' game. ... I really didn't feel like I had good zip on my fastball today, but I was still able to locate it pretty good. I know I got them looking for fastballs, and then started throwing changeups a little.
If I had to say who our rival was going into last year, I'd say the Twins. They had won the division and were the team to beat. Now the White Sox won the division, so they're the team to beat. We want to knock them out of first.