With cowbells clanging and the full-throated roar of the home faithful echoing across the dome, Clifton Phifer Lee of Benton, Ark., cool as always, stepped onto the mound at Tropicana Field and exhaled. The pitcher rocked back and unleashed a 93 mph fastball: a called strike, over the heart of the plate, on Rays leadoff hitter Jason Bartlett. The dome went silent. And so began yet another October masterpiece from baseball's itinerant ace.
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