NEW YORK -- Most everyone paying its way into Yankee Stadium on Saturday was standing and cheering when big lefty CC Sabathia stepped off the mound and headed back to the dugout with two outs in the sixth, a runner on second and the Yankees up 2-0 on the Toronto Blue Jays.
When this four-hit, 5 2/3-inning, six-strikeout, no-walk outing ended, it never crossed Sabathia's mind that this might have been his last in pinstripes.
There was no reminiscing even though he's 37, in the final year of his contract and this was regular-season game 161 of 162.