Filed under: Rangers, Rays, MLB Playoffs, American League Division SeriesST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Cliff Lee picked up Wednesday where he left off in last year's postseason, dominating the Rays as the Rangers won their American League Division Series opener 5-1.
Lee struck out 10 while allowing one run in seven innings. He did not issue a walk and gave up only five hits. He has gone at least seven innings in all six of his career postseason starts.
Tampa Bay, which finished with the best record in the AL, played a sloppy game. Ace David Price allowed five runs in 6 2/3 innings on nine hits, two of them two-out homers. The Rays made two throwing errors, both on balls that first baseman Carlos Peña probably should have scooped. And Peña had three strikeouts.
Lee got in a jam in the bottom of the first, as Tampa Bay loaded the bases with one out on three singles. He then struck out Peña and Rocco Baldelli and went on to retire 18 of 20 batters, before Ben Zobrist's seventh-inning home run.
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