Only one other pitcher in baseball history has won a World Series game in which he had at least 10 strikeouts and no walks. It happened in the first very World Series game ever played.
Deacon Phillippe (9-6-3-0-10) of the Pittsburgh Pirates did it on October 1, 1903 against Cy Young and the Boston Americans. Pittsburgh led the best-of-9 series 3-1, but Boston won four consecutive games to clinch the first of the franchise's seven championships.
On October 5, 1949, Brooklyn's Don Newcombe struck out 11 Yankees and did not issue a walk, but he lost Game 1 to New York 1-0. Here's the list of the six times it has happened in post-season history. Lee has two of those six performances this month.
Joe Posnanski:
Cliff Lee pitched Wednesday like he had already seen the game and knew how it turned out. He pitched like he was on Tivo.
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