Lee to lead Rangers into New York
October 18th 2010 22:22
This is a pitching matchup so good that it appears to have taken on a life of its own.
Game 3 of the 2010 American League Championship Series, to be televised on TBS, is scheduled for Yankee Stadium on Monday at 8 p.m. ET, and the headlines are already screaming "LEE VS. PETTITTE!!"
Of course, not to get lost in the glamorous pitching matchup is an integral Game 3 that will break the ALCS stalemate.
However you want to view it, with the Texas victory in Game 2, Game 3 has become particularly pivotal. And whatever attention the two left-handed starters have achieved, on their own or in this pairing, is well-earned.
Says Lee of Pettitte: "In my opinion he's probably the best postseason pitcher of all time just by the number of wins and the number of rings he's got."
Pettitte, asked what he sees in Lee, responds: "You see everything that you want to see in a starting pitcher to be successful. He throws strikes. He throws quality strikes. He gets ahead. He changes speeds. And, you know, I think what is separating him from any other pitcher right now is really his cutter, how late it is."
For the record, Pettitte is the all-time leader in postseason victories with 19. While he has been pitching in the postseason since 1995, some of his best work has come recently. He was 4-0 in the 2009 postseason as part of a three-man rotation, winning one game in each of the first two postseason rounds and then winning two starts in the World Series.
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