Colby Lewis is a pitcher who plays for the Texas Rangers in Major League Baseball. Lewis came up with the Rangers after the team drafted him in the 1999 supplemental draft. He would pitch with the team for parts of three seasons from 2002 to 2004 before being waived from the team following the 2004 season. From there, he would go on to pitch for the Detroit Tigers and Oakland Athletics before returning to the Rangers in the 2010 seasons.http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lewisco01.shtml

In 2010, Lewis pitched in the major leagues for the first time since 2007. He would make a career high 32 starts and pitched in the playoffs for the first time. Lewis was that starter in game six of the American League Championship Series, the game that sent the Rangers to their first World Series.http://bleacherreport.com/articles/499174-alcs-game-6-texas-rangers-win-al-pennant-grading-their-win

The Rangers brought Lewis back in the 2010 season after Lewis had spent two seasons pitching in Japan. He was inserted into the team's rotation, a position he hadn't held on any major league team since 2003. Lewis finished the 2003 season with a record of 12-13. He had a 3.72 earned run average, walking 65 batters over the course of the year while striking out 196.http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lewisco01.shtml

Lewis made his MLB playoff debut in 2010 as well as the Rangers won the AL West division. He would lose his first playoff game, game three of the American League Division Series against the Tampa Bay Rays. Lewis would pitch again in the ALCS, against the New York Yankees. He would win both starts he made, including a series-clinching victory in game six. Across two starts, Lewis held the Yankees to nine hits and three runs, striking out 13 batters in the process.http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lewisco01.shtml

Lewis spent the 2009 season pitching in Japan, with the Hiroshima Carp. Lewis pitched in 29 games with the team, earning a record of 11-9. He registered an earned run average of 2.96 and walked just 19 batters while striking out 196. Lewis recorded a WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched) under one, at 0.99.http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=lewis-001col His statistics helped him return to the United States the following season.