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Matthews: Committing early to CC isn't the way to go

Wallace Matthews

Newsday columnist Wallace Matthews

Matthews writes on professional sports, with a specialty in professional

PHILADELPHIA

Last year, in the second inning of the second game of an NL Division Series between the Phillies and the Milwaukee Brewers on Oct. 2, Shane Victorino, batting with the bases loaded, swung at a 1-and-2 fastball thrown by an ace pitcher working on short rest and deposited the pitch into the leftfield seats at Citizens Bank Park.

That ace pitcher was CC Sabathia, who had been...

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