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Cliff's next scheduled start is: 2012 Cliff's K's for Kids Recent Site Updates: - All-Star Game 2011: The boxscore from Cliff's third All-Star appearance (Added: 7-13-11) *NEW* - Homerun log: List of homeruns hit by Cliff in his career (Added: 7-10-11) *NEW* - Gamelog 2011: How Cliff has done game by game this year (Added: 4-3-11) - Homeruns 2011: Players who have homered off Cliff in 2011 (Added: 4-3-11) - Strikeouts 2011: Players Cliff has struck out in 2011 (Added: 4-3-11) - Team by team 2011: How Cliff has done against each team this season (Added: 4-3-11)     Notes: 11-17-11: Cliff finished third in the voting for the NL Cy Young Award. 10-3-11: Cliff appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated! 9-21-11: Cliff was awarded the Steve Carlton (Most Valuable Pitcher) Award by the Philadelphia Baseball Writers. 9-5-11: Cliff became the first pitcher to record six shutouts in a season since Randy Johnson in 1998. He also became the fourth Phillies left-hander to record 200 strikeouts in a season. 8-31-11: Cliff went 5-0 with a 0.45 ERA in August to become the third pitcher in Major League history to have two months in one season with five wins, zero losses and an ERA under one (Walter Johnson in 1913 and Bob Gibson in 1968). 7-5-11: Cliff was named the NL Pitcher of the Month for June after going 5-0 with a 0.21 ERA in 5 starts. 7-3-11: Cliff was selected for the 2011 MLB All-Star game. 6-28-11: Cliff ran his career-best scoreless streak to 32 innings while becoming the first Phillies pitcher to throw three straight shutouts since Hall of Famer Robin Roberts did it in 1950. He finished June 5-0 with a 0.21 ERA in five starts, only the fifth major league pitcher since World War II to go 5-0 with an ERA of 0.21 or better in a month. 5-6-11: Cliff struck out a career high 16 batters in only 7.0 innings vs Atlanta. 4-1-11: Cliff appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated! 3-30-11: Cliff finished spring training with a 2-2 record, 4 walks, 16 strikeouts, 19 innings and a 4.74 ERA in 5 starts. 12-15-10: Cliff signed a five-year, $120 million contract (with a $27.5 million vesting option for 2016) with the Philadelphia Phillies. 10-23-10: Cliff was selected to the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame class of 2011. 10-18-10: Cliff became the first pitcher in MLB history to reach double digits in strikeouts three times in a single postseason and the fourth to have at least 13 strikeouts and allow two hits or fewer. He is the third pitcher to start his postseason career with a 7-0 record, joining Orlando Hernandez (8-0) and Orel Hershiser (7-0). Cliff tied Bob Gibson's record of consecutive 10+ K games in the postseason with 3 and his 5th career postseason game with at least 10 strikeouts is tied with Randy Johnson and Bob Gibson for the most all-time. 10-12-10: Cliff led Texas to their first ever playoff series win in a series in which the road team won every game -- a first in major league history. His 21 strikeouts is an ALDS record and he tied Lefty Gomez for the third-most consecutive postseason decisions won as a starter (6) to begin a career in MLB history. Cliff's 21 strikeouts and zero walks in his 2 starts in the ALDS is the most strikeouts without a walk in a single postseason series all-time. 10-6-10: Cliff became the 10th pitcher in postseason history to win each of his 1st 5 decisions as a starter and the 4th pitcher in the Live Ball Era to toss at least 7 innings in each of his 1st 6 postseason starts. He became the first pitcher in MLB history to have 10 strikeouts and no walks in a Game 1 road win twice in his career. It was the third time Cliff has pitched at least 7 innings with no walks and at least 10 strikeouts...only three other pitchers have posted a line of 7 IP, 0 BB and 10 K in postseason history: Tom Seaver 1973 NLCS Game 1, Don Newcombe 1949 World Series Game 1 and Deacon Phillippe 1903 World Series Game 1. 10-3-10: Cliff ended the season with a walk rate of 0.76 per nine innings, the lowest for any pitcher with 200 innings since Red Lucas in 1933. 8-16-10: Cliff set the modern baseball record for most strikeouts in a season before issuing his 10th walk. Curt Schilling had 140 strikeouts in 2002, Cliff got to 143. 8-6-10: Cliff got his 100th career major league victory! 7-22-10: Cliff got his 1,000th career major league strikeout when he struck out Torii Hunter of the Angels. 7-9-10: The Texas Rangers traded Justin Smoak, Blake Beavan, Josh Lueke and Matt Lawson to the Seattle Mariners for Cliff Lee, Marke Lowe and cash. 7-6-10: Cliff was named the AL Pitcher of the Month for June. He was 4-1 with a 1.76 ERA and four complete games in six starts. 7-4-10: Cliff was selected to the AL All-Star Team! 5-28-10: Cliff picked up his 93 career win in his 200th major league game. 4-30-10: Cliff was activated from the DL and made his season debut. 4-25-10: Cliff made a rehab start for AAA Tacoma. 4-20-10: Major League Baseball dropped Cliff's five-game suspension! 4-4-10: Cliff was placed on the 15-day DL. 3-17-10: Cliff was suspended for five regular season games for throwing at Arizona's Chris Snyder. 12-16-09: Cliff was traded to the Seattle Mariners for minor leaguers Juan Ramirez, Phillippe Aumont and Tyson Gillies. 11-6-09: The Phillies picked up Cliff's contract option for 2010. 11-2-09: Cliff matched the Phillies record (Cole Hamels in 2008) with his fourth win of the postseason. He also joined Steve Carlton (1980) as the only Philadelphia starters to win two games in a single World Series. 10-28-09: Cliff became the first pitcher since Don Newcombe in 1949 to have 10 strikeouts, no walks and no earned runs allowed in a World Series game. He also became the first pitcher to do that in back-to-back postseason games. Lee became the first left-handed starter to beat the Yankees in Yankee Stadium in Game 1 of a World Series since Sandy Koufax beat Whitey Ford in 1963 and he became the first pitcher in 26 years to throw a World Series complete game in which he struck out the first and last hitter of the game. 10-21-09: The Phillies Clinched the NL Pennant and a trip to the World Series! 10-18-09: Cliff became the first pitcher in postseason history to have 10-plus strikeouts with no walks while not allowing a run in a game! 10-12-09: The Phillies beat Colorado three games to one to advance to the NL Championship Series against the LA Dodgers. 10-7-09: Cliff threw a complete game to win his first career playoff game in game 1 of the NLDS versus Colorado. He also became the first pitcher in Phillies history to steal a base in the postseason! 10-1-09: Cliff got his 900th career major league strikeout against the Houston Astros. 9-30-09: The Philadelphia Phillies clinched their third straight NL East Championship! 9-15-09: Cliff became just the sixth pitcher in MLB history to win at least seven games in the AL and the NL in one season. 7-31-09: Cliff threw a complete game to win his first game with Philadelphia. He also went 2-4 with a double and a run in the 5-1 victory at San Francisco. 7-29-09: Cliff was traded, along with Ben Francisco, from Cleveland to Philadelphia for minor leaguers Carlos Carrasco, Jason Donald, Lou Marson and Jason Knapp. 6-30-09: Cliff got his 800th career major league strikeout in a game vs. the White Sox. 5-3-09: Cliff threw his 1,000th career major league inning. 4-16-09: Cliff was the starting and winning pitcher for the Indians in the first ever game at the new Yankee Stadium! 4-2-09: Cliff ended spring training with a 0-3 record and a 12.46 ERA in 6 games. 1-21-09: Cliff was named the Greater Cleveland Sports Awards Professional Athlete of the Year.     Site last updated: 11-17-11