CC Sabathia first pitched in the big leagues in 2001 -- with a lot more fastball than he showed against the Red Sox on Friday night at Yankee Stadium, when he made a team showing the kind of stick the Red Sox have shown this season look as if they were swinging at butterflies. CC, closing in on his 38th birthday, did that, and even finished his night with a snappy fielding play to the left of the mound. And what he really did on this night, in a second act in New York no one thought he would have a few years ago, was pitch himself a little closer to Cooperstown.
CC making a convincing case for Cooperstown
