Shortly after Cliff Lee arrived in Texas in 2010, he had a five-game stretch as August came to an end in which he went 0-5, 8.28, getting tuned up at a slash rate of .333/.348/.538 by three good teams and two very bad ones.
Lee straightened things out over his final four regular season starts (3-1, 1.93, .189/.233/.295).
And then Lee was extraordinary in the post-season, particularly in the ALDS and ALCS, the franchise’s first ever playoff series wins (3-0, 0.75, .151/.161/.209, 34 strikeouts and one walk in 24 innings). Without him, the 2010 World Series would have gone on without Texas.