Topic: Cliff Lee
(Reuters) - Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers won the National League Cy Young Award as the top pitcher on Thursday, capping a season where he had the league's lowest earned run average and highest strikeout total.Kershaw was named first on ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two powerhouse top seeds in the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees, and a pair of wild card Cinderellas make for intriguing match-ups in the first round of Major League Baseball playoffs starting Friday.The thrilling regular season finish ...
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Cliff Lee proved dominant again as he steamrolled through the Atlanta Braves' lineup to give Philadelphia a 9-0 shutout victory and win his seventh consecutive start on Monday.The left-hander Lee did not walk a batter and struck out six ...
TORONTO (Reuters) - Eric Thames and Jose Bautista slammed back-to-back homers and Edwin Encarnacion added a two-run blast as the Toronto Blue Jays ended Cliff Lee's shutout streak by pounding the Philadelphia Phillies 7-4 on Sunday.Lee, who had looked invincible stringing together ...
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A masterful Cliff Lee tossed his third consecutive complete-game shutout to steal top billing as the Philadelphia Phillies earned a 5-0 victory in their heavyweight matchup with the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday.In a potential World Series preview between ...
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - The St. Louis Cardinals welcomed manager Tony La Russa back to the dugout and extended the drought of Philadelphia's Cliff Lee with a 3-1 victory over the Phillies on Monday.La Russa's return from an absence of six games ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cliff Lee pitched a complete game, three-hit shutout to help lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 4-0 road victory over the Washington Nationals on Thursday."I was pretty much putting the ball where I wanted to most of the time," ...
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Philadelphia Phillies provided plenty of offense in support of Cliff Lee, the team's prized free-agent acquisition, as they thumped the Houston Astros 9-4 on Saturday.Left-hander Lee struck out 11 batters in seven innings and allowed three runs on ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five teams to watch in the 2011 Major League Baseball season, which begins March 31:- - - -SAN FRANCISCO GIANTSThey scraped their way into the postseason by cobbling together just enough offense to support an outstanding pitching staff ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Philadelphia Phillies re-armed in hopes of toppling the champion San Francisco Giants and the Boston Red Sox beefed up their lineup for a title run in the 2011 Major League Baseball season that starts Thursday.The Phillies and ...