My my my, The Jake looked absolutely gorgeous on national TV tonight as the Cleveland Indians delivered a solid thrashing to the New York Yankees during their first playoff meeting since 1997.
Following a regular season in which New York ran roughshod over the Tribe all six times the clubs met, emotions were running at fill tilt in the stands throughout the game. Luckily, the fans in attendance were given plenty to cheer for as the Indians took the lead in the bottom of the first inning and never let it go.
While Game 1 certainly wasn't the pitching gem we were expecting (an apparently-reduced strike zone had both starters throwing all over the place in desperation as their lower corners were taken away, and both were out of the game by the end of the fifth inning), one must commend the gutsy performance by C.C. Sabathia tonight. Not only did he keep the Tribe in the game for all five innings he pitched, he minimized the damage New York could easily have wrought had our ace not kept his wits about him and made some crucial pitches during the trouble-plagued first and fifth innings.
From that point, it was a battle of the bullpens, with New York allowing three runs scattered over the remainder of the evening and Cleveland utterly shutting the Yankees hitting game down (save for one base hit in the ninth inning). A very promising start, indeed.
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