Lee Dominates Yanks, Indians Win 3-0

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Cleveland	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0		3	7	0
N.Y. Yankees	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	7	0

The Yankees dropped their second straight to the Cleveland Indians and fell to a game under .500 tonight at The Stadium. Chien-Ming Wang started for the Yanks and pitched well. In 7 innings he allowed just 3 runs on 5 hits and 3 walks which really hurt him. He also struck out 4. Even with the walks he pitched well enough to get a win, but the offense took another night off.

Kyle Farnsworth and Jonathan Albaladejo both pitched scoreless innings in relief, though Albaladejo really didn't pitch well and was really helped out by Jose Molina who turned a nifty double play to end the top of the 9th.

	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Wang (L, 6-1)	7.0	5	3	3	3	4	0	3.12
Farnsworth	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3.18
Albaladejo	1.0	1	0	0	2	0	0	4.76

INDIANS PITCHING

Like I said before the Yankees offense took another night off as Cliff Lee continues his amazing start to the year. The Yankees problem was they were too patient. Lee has walked 2 guys all year and has been doing nothing but throw strikes, and apparently the Yankees didn't get the memo. They constantly took pitches and fell behind almost every count because of it. Sometimes you need to be aggressive at the plate and tonight was one of those nights.

Surprisingly enough the only Yankee with more than one hit was the most patient Yankee, Bobby Abreu. Shelley Duncan, Hideki Matsui, Melky Cabrera, and Robinson Cano each had one hit.

The Indians bullpen (Perez and Betancourt) also did their job, retiring 6 of the 7 Yankees batters they faced.

	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	LOB	AVG
Damon, LF	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	.273
Jeter, SS	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	.300
Abreu, RF	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	.305
Duncan, S, 1B	4	0	1	0	0	1	1	.192
Matsui, DH	4	0	1	0	0	1	2	.339
Cabrera, CF	4	0	1	0	0	1	1	.279
Cano, 2B	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	.160
Ensberg, 3B	3	0	1	0	0	1	2	.226
Molina, C	3	0	0	0	0	1	3	.219
Totals	34	0	7	0	0	8	10
BATTING 2B: Duncan, S (2, Lee), Abreu (5, Perez). TB: Abreu 3; Duncan, S 2; Matsui; Cabrera; Cano; Ensberg. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Molina; Matsui 2; Duncan, S. Team LOB: 7.

INDIANS OFFENSE

PLAYER OF THE GAME: Cliff Lee (7 IP, 6 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 7 K, 0.81 ERA)

HONORABLE MENTION: The Indians bullpen (2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB 1 K)

The Yankees look to salvage the final game of this three game set tomorrow afternoon in the Bronx. Mike Mussina gets the start for New York and will face off against Paul Byrd. First pitch is set for 1:05 p.m., and the game can be seen on YES and heard on WCBS 880.