And Cliff Lee, the coolest man in baseball, held his glove waist-high and let the ball drop into it. He caught it as casually as if he were getting a new baseball from the plate umpire, then cracked his gum for punctuation.
...It is lost to history whether Dean could do what Lee did in the bottom of the eighth. Robinson Cano led off and hit a sharp grounder back at the mound. Well into his follow-through, Lee stuck his glove out behind him and caught the ball on one hop without the benefit of seeing it...."I don't know how I caught that ball," Lee said.
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