Lee gets rocked again, what’s wrong?

Texas Rangers stud Cliff Lee is among the best in the business. If he’s not the best left-handed starter in the majors then we’d love to know who is. But, this month has not been going his way.

Lee gave up seven runs in 4 2/3 innings to the Kansas City Royals today, and four of those runs were earned. He now has now allowed 27 earned runs in his last five starts. Very un-Cliff Lee-like (we have no clue if that’s appropriate use of hyphens. Don’t bother us with details).

He ends the month of August with a 1-4 record (we hate W/L as an official stat…very misleading) and a 6.35 ERA (whoa! that’s not!).

Because the Rangers are kicking the ever-loving snot out of everyone else in the AL West, this isn’t a huge problem right now. But, it is a priority to get Lee right for the playoffs. He could be the difference between winning and losing a playoff series.