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ace gets mechanical, mental tune-up

By Jeff Passan, Yahoo! Sports 9 hours, 48 minutes ago

KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? The text message arrived Tuesday morning. C.C. Sabathia glanced at his phone and saw it was from Roy Oswalt.
?Just throw how you throw,? it read.
Since his last start, when he gave up nine earned runs for the second consecutive game, Sabathia had received words of encouragement from around the country, ranging from his former teammate Eduardo Perez to his mother. Oswalt?s, as much as anyone?s, stuck with him. He, too, had struggled in his first three starts for the Houston Astros, only to catch form. Now it was Sabathia?s turn, the weather turning, the arm loosening and a flaccid Kansas City lineup awaiting his Cleveland Indians.
For six innings, Sabathia looked every bit his Cy Young self, shutting out the Royals and striking out 11 in a 15-1 thrashing at Kauffman Stadium. He yielded four singles, a couple loopers and a bleeder among them, his dominance a product of a 94-mph fastball mixed with an 82-mph slider, both of which he located up and down, in and out, the strike zone his canvas.
?Maybe I should?ve been more worried than I was,? Sabathia said. ?But I really wasn?t. I just knew it was all upstairs, all in my head.?

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