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The hope was that CC Sabathia would earn his 250th career win in the building where it all began for him.
The reality is that what was, in all likelihood, Sabathia’s final start at Progressive Field was over fairly quickly, and he and the bullpen could not contain the Indians in an 8-4 defeat on Saturday afternoon that prolonged a difficult stretch of five losses in six games for the Yankees.
Sabathia had made his Major League debut in this building way back on April 8, 2001—or 20 days before the Yankees’ 2019 first-round pick, Anthony Volpe, was born.