Indians - Yankees : Tribe wins 3-0 in battle of unbeaten pitchers.

Cliff Lee? Unbeaten. Chien-Ming Wang? Unbeaten. Something or someone had to give.

Both pitchers lived up to their unbeaten records, pitching like the seventh game of the American League Championship. Lee scattered his hits over seven innings, while Wang gave up three costly walks. Winner? Lee.

Lee, Rafael Perez, and Rafael Betancourt teamed up to beat the New York Yankees 3-0 at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday.

Lee went seven shutout innings and dropped his ERA back to .81, increasing his win-loss total to a fantastic 7-0 in the victory. Coming off an outing where his twenty seven inning scoreless streak was broken, Lee began his new streak.

ESPN ran a stat on sports center showing the last five guys with this kind of start and that low of an era. The four others won the Cy Young. While it’s WAY too premature to assume such a thing, Cliff Lee does appear to be the early front runner for the award. That would give the Cleveland Indians back-to-back Cy Youngs if it panned out. C.C. Sabathia won it last year.

To think if Sabathia continues to round back into last years form, and Fausto Carmona cuts down on his walks, the Indians look like they have three number one starters. YOW!!!

Let’s hope some offense kicks in pretty soon. The offense did get to Wang early in this one. The top of the first put Grady Sizemore on first with a walk. That walk would prove costly. Ben Franciso singled Sizemore to second, but got caught on a ‘tweener play as he did not know whether to advance or not on a David Dellucci fielders choice hit and was out at second.

It did, however move Sizemore to third, and he scored on Victor Martinez sac fly. While the Tribe only got one in the inning, that would be the only run they needed on this night.

They did end up scoring two more, one in the fourth and one in the fifth. That would be all the scoring for both teams on this evening.

In the fourth, Peralta scored after he singled, moved to second on a Cabrera ground out, and huffed home on a Casey Blake single. In the fifth, Andy Marte scored after his single and move over to second on a Sizemore walk preceded a David Dellucci single to center.

The Yankees threatened in the fifth on back-to-back singles by Cabrera and Cano with one out, but Lee struck out Morgan Ensberg for out number two, and got Benji Molina to fly out to end that threat.

The bottom of the eighth was the only other real scoring opportunity for the Yanks. They put runners on second and third before a fly out ended that inning.

Rafael Betancourt pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to close out the game and earn his fourth save of the season. Lee got the win, Perez earned a hold in victory.

The Tribe guaranteed a series win after taking the first two of this three game set. They go at it for the last meeting of the season at 1:05 with 1-2 Paul Byrd taking on 4-3 Mike Mussina.