OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Ray Lewis was in no mood for a conversation following a bitter 17-15 loss Sunday to the undefeated Indianapolis Colts.

Having tweaked his right ankle and whiffed on a key tackle on running back Joseph Addai's touchdown run, the Baltimore Ravens' All-Pro middle linebacker declined interview requests without a word as he stared forward while marching out of the locker room.

Lewis apologized Wednesday for the silent treatment.

"It gets no harder for me than Sunday," said Lewis, who compared the loss to the Ravens' similar playoff defeat to the Colts three years ago. "I have a problem and I've always had a problem, and I pray about it a lot, but I've got a problem with losing. I don't like losing. I don't like losing frigging close games. I don't like to lose nothing. I like to finish games out 60 minutes when you've got a team like that on the ropes.

"When you reflect back to 2006, it was kind of the same situation that happened. We hold them to five field goals and then you lose and they go win the Super Bowl. I don't want to relive that again. Excuse me for not talking because it's definitely not me. We were supposed to win that game, bottom line. That didn't sit well for me outside of the things I was already going through, whether it was a foot, whether it was this or that. Sunday was a very bitter taste in my mouth.”

Lewis recorded 10 tackles and forced a fumble against the Colts, but the tackle he didn't make drew more attention than any of the big plays he made.

Although Lewis didn't make excuses for his uncharacteristic missed tackle on Addai down on the goal line, he did acknowledge that his ankle bothered him Sunday as he aggravated a previous injury.

Lewis was held out of practice Wednesday.

"It's kind of a foot thing that I've been dealing with," Lewis said. "Bottom line, it kind of got caught between two people on a freakish play. That's kind of the way things always happen. I came out of it okay.

"The limp was kind of obvious. The plant was whatever. It's going to be what it's going to be. Everybody is dealing with injuries at this point in the year. All you can do is keep nursing them and hope you'll be 90 to 95 percent when Sundays come around."

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