Ask Cliff Lee what his most memorable game was with the Indians, and he points to three games he didn’t pitch. “It was the postseason in 2007, when we were up on Boston, 3-1 (in the ALCS), and I didn’t pitch in any of the games,” he said. “I would have liked to have had a shot at one of those last three games, but we lost them all and I didn’t pitch in any of them. I’m not saying we would have won it if I had pitched in one of those games, but that was definitely motivation for me to get my career turned around.” You might say Lee was successful. In 2008, he was 22-3 and became the second consecutive Indians pitcher, following CC Sabathia, to win the Cy Young Award. In the middle of the 2009 season, the Indians traded him in what is arguably the worst trade (for Carlos Carrasco, Jason Donald, Lou Marson and Jason Knapp) in franchise history. “I was somewhat surprised by the trade, but there were rumors floating around, and I knew that the year before they traded CC, so knowing all that it wasn’t that much of a surprise,” Lee said. On Wednesday night Lee, now with the Phillies, will make his first start vs. the Indians since they traded him. It will be Lee’s first start at Progressive Field since July 16, 2009, when he pitched a complete-game 4-1 win for the Tribe over Seattle. Four years later, Lee will get another start at Progressive Field — this time for the visiting team. “It doesn’t seem like it has been as long as it has been,” Lee said. “But it’s nice to see some familiar faces here. A huge part of my career was spent here.” It was a career that had an odd arc to it in its early stages. From 2004-06, Lee had records of 14-8, 18-5 and 14-11, respectively, for the Indians. But in 2007 — the year the Indians won their division and got to within one win of the World Series — Lee was a mess, going 5-8 with a 6.29 ERA and pitching so bad he was sent to the minor leagues in the middle of the season and wasn’t even on the Indians’ postseason roster. The following year, 2008, he won the Cy Young Award as the American League’s best pitcher. “It was the low point and the high point of my career, from one year to the next,” Lee said. “I went from being really bad to being really good, real quick.” Lee has stayed really good ever since. In his last 155 starts, dating to the start of the 2008 season, Lee has a combined record of 71-42 with a 2.89 ERA for the Indians, Philadelphia, Seattle, Texas and Philadelphia again. How does a pitcher that good bounce around that much? “It’s the nature of the game,” Lee said. “This is definitely a business. Regardless of how well you do for a team, if they feel they can make their team better, they will move you. It’s nothing personal. It’s just how it works.”