Flip the script from Game 1 and that's what you got with Game 2:

Cliff Lee outpitched CC Sabathia Wednesday.

A.J. Burnett outpitched Pedro Martinez Thursday.

Sabathia gave up two solo home runs Wednesday, and otherwise pitched well enough to win on most nights.

Martinez gave up two solo home runs Thursday, and otherwise pitched well enough to win on most nights.

The Phils lost 3-1. The series is tied 1-1.

There's not a whole lot more else to say. Check out the delcotimes.com in the a.m. for the usual expansive coverage - for myself, columnist Jack McCaffery and sports editor Rob Parent.


As for something that won't appear in my game story.... I thought I caught something happening when Martinez was walking from the mound to the dugout when he was lifted in the middle of the seventh inning. The veteran pitcher and NY fan "favorite" was getting jeered pretty good, and I thought he slowed up and may have said something to a fan just before he ducked into the dugout.

He did.

Here's what happened, according to the pitcher himself:

"It's the New Yankee Stadium, but the fans remain the fans," Martinez said. "They're going to give you (grief). I remember on guy sitting right in the front row with his daughter - his daughter in one arm and a cup of beer in the other hand and saying all kinds of nasty stuff.

"I just told him, 'Your daughter is right beside you. It's a little girl. It's a shame you're saying all of these things.' I had to stop and tell him because I'm a father myself, and God, how can you be so dumb to do those things in front of your child? What kind of example are you setting?

"But the fans, I enjoy that, because at the bottom, I know I played for the Mets, I know they really want to root for me. It's just I don't play for the Yankees, that's all. I've always been a good competitor, and they love that. They love the fact that I compete. I'm a New Yorker as well. If I was on the Yankees, I'd probably be like a king over here. That's not the case right now and it's going to be that way."