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"Yesterday the Phillies&amp;#39; Cliff Lee couldn&amp;#39;t have commanded Yankee Stadium more than he did if he&amp;#39;d been driven onto the field in the Popemobile. He was a baseball automaton, firing strike after strike and, between innings, continuing to rehearse his mechanics, even as members of the grounds crew worked around him.\n\nThroughout the evening it was as if any ball struck off a Yankee bat was a bothersome interruption of the game of catch Lee was playing with his battery-mate. When Johnny Damon popped up to him in the 6th, Lee, without budging from the rubber, extended his glove and waited impatiently, almost contemptuously, for the ball to land in it. When Robinson Cano struck a ground ball up the middle in the 8th (a nine-pitch inning, no less), Lee, still in his follow-through, made a deft-to-the-point-of-ridiculousness behind-the-back grab, threw him out, then stoically reassumed his position on the rubber. When Jorge Posada grounded out to the mound in the 7th, Lee trapped him on the first baseline, as pitchers are taught to do, but tagged him not on the chest, the usual place, but on the butt, as if he were hurrying him off the field\u2014his field, if you please. Lee would ultimately pitch a complete game, giving up zero earned runs to one of the best lineups ever assembled. He became the first pitcher since 1903 to record 10 strikeouts and no walks in a nine-inning World Series game. He now has a 0.54 ERA in 33 1/3 postseason innings in 2009.\n\nAside from Lee&amp;#39;s extraordinary pitching, here&amp;#39;s how the Phillies shocked New York in Game 1 of the World Series, nullifying the Yankees&amp;#39; home-field advantage:\n\nBottom of the 2nd inning, Cliff Lee versus Alex Rodriguez\n\n This was A-Rod&amp;#39;s first career World Series at-bat, a moment he&amp;#39;s undoubtedly been visualizing for years with the help of his various life coaches. Lee&amp;#39;s second pitch of the at-bat, a belt-high arrow-straight four-seamer, split the ribs of the plate\u2014and A-Rod let it pass. Where do you want it, A-Rod? Though he literally hadn&amp;#39;t swung-and-missed even once during this postseason\u2014an amazing feat\u2014in this game he struck out swinging three times (including once in the bottom of the 9th, on four pitches, with a runner on second). In the ALDS and ALCS A-Rod was amazingly good, but will he continue to carry the Yankees in the World Series? After last night, Yankees fans should be freaking out about him.\n\n Top of the 6th inning, CC Sabathia gives up a home run to Chase Utley\n\n We&amp;#39;re not in Anaheim any more: For the second time, Sabathia tried to go knee-high and inside on Utley; for the second time he missed over the plate; for the second time Utley hammered the ball into the right-field stands. The homer, which proved to be the game-winner, gave Philadelphia a 2-0 lead that felt even more substantial because of the way Lee was pitching. The scene inside the Philly dugout moments after the home run was telling: Utley stood on the top step, his hair slicked back, as cocky and mellow as the asshole lifeguard at the pool (he has been quoted as saying he uses something called LA Looks hair gel to prevent &amp;quot;hat hair&amp;quot;), while various teammates idly milled about or sat placidly on the bench. There was no wide-eyed tremulousness about the fact that the team was beating the almighty Yankees. You were reminded not only that the Phillies won the World Series last year but also that the vast majority of the Yankees, for all their expensive swagger, have never played in one.\n\n Top of the 8th, Joe Girardi pulls Philip Hughes\n\n During the 8th and 9th innings, Joe Girardi spun his wheels furiously and uselessly, deploying five pitchers who would together give up four runs and basically hand the game to the Phillies. First came Hughes, who walked the first two batters of the 8th after being squeezed on at least three pitches by the home-plate ump (both runners would score; Hughes&amp;#39; ERA in the boxscore reads &amp;quot;INF,&amp;quot; for &amp;quot;infinity&amp;quot;). Then Girardi used Damaso Marte, his mediocre lefty specialist, to pitch to Philadelphia&amp;#39;s two most formidable hitters, Utley and Howard. Amazingly, Marte retired both. The ballsy move here, with the Yankees behind 2-0 at home, would have been to bring in Mariano Rivera to get the third out, then give the offense two innings to tie or win the game. Instead Girardi brought in David Robertson, who gave up a two-run single to make the score 4-0. Then, with the game all but lost, Girardi brought in a new pitcher, Brian Bruney, in the top of the 9th, and replaced him, after two more runs, with Phil Coke. If you&amp;#39;re looking for a definition of overmanaging, here it is. Girardi last night was like an episode of &amp;quot;Spy vs. Spy.&amp;quot; The net result was to make meaningless what would have been a dangerous Yankee rally in the bottom of the 9th, when Jeter and Damon both singled with no outs."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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