It's Lee vs. Price in ALDS Game 5

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Rays manager Joe Maddon believes his team is where it wants to be now.

"The first three games, we just did not show up. All of a sudden we showed up for what, 11/2 games now?'' Maddon said Monday as the Rays prepared for the deciding Game 5 of their American League Division Series against the Rangers. "Definitely, there's a difference in the dugout and within the clubhouse. It's back to where it had been, and that's where we need to be. We play off our internal emotions pretty well, and we didn't have any."

The Rangers outscored the Rays 11-1 in the first two games and led in the eighth inning of Game 3 before Tampa Bay fought back. Since batting .123 (10-for-81) with one homer through the fifth inning of Game 3, the Rays have hit .362 (21-for-58) with four homers.

The Rays are trying to become the sixth team in major- league history to win a postseason series after losing the first two games at home. The 2001 Yankees were the last to do it (and the only ones to rally in a best-of-five playoff), bouncing back against Oakland.

In a battle of ace lefthanders, Cliff Lee will start for Texas against Tampa Bay's David Price, who got outpitched by Lee in Game 1. "He was not satisfied in what he did that first game. I know him, he took a lot of that on himself," Maddon said. "But I do believe any kind of mistakes he thought he made, he's not going to make them in Game 5. He's got the ability, both mentally and physically, to make the corrections, so that's what I see from David. I see a very, very good performance."

Lee is 5-0 with a 1.52 ERA in six career postseason starts, but the Rangers are the only current major-league franchise that has never won a playoff series.

Said Lee: "What has happened in the past, they could have had 60 World Series rings and that's not going to change the way I am approaching this season and this postseason . . . We want to get a ring, period.''