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CC Sabathia: ‘An Ace in Every Single Possible Way’

the brink of being eliminated on their home field in the deciding fifth game of the ALDS for the second straight year, the Yankees turned to CC Sabathia.

The atmosphere in the Bronx was tense, to say the least, with the Yankee offense mired in a cavernous slump and with top relievers Rafael Soriano and David Robertson having been worked hard in the extra-inning marathons that were Game 3 and 4. It was clear that the team would need not only dominance from their 32-year-old No. 1 starter, but also distance.

Sabathia delivered on both counts, one-upping his authoritative Game 1 performance (8.2 innings, two earned runs, eight hits, seven strikeouts) with a complete game, four-hit, one-run, nine-strikeout masterpiece.

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