Nationals vs. Mets: Chien-Ming Wang … - 棒球

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※ 引述《WingKnight (金色紀元)》之銘言：
: Nationals vs. Mets: Chien-Ming Wang takes loss in first MLB start in
: more than two years

王建民在久違兩年多的大聯盟首次先發吞敗

: By Adam Kilgore, Saturday, July 30, 10:16 AM
: http://ppt.cc/!kr6
: Chien-Ming Wang once came as close as a pitcher could to resembling a
: machine.He wore New York Yankees pinstripes, crisp and perfect. His placid
: face, even with a nation watching for every twitch, betrayed nothing. He
: threw heavy, mid-90-mph sinkers, one after the next, that splintered bats
: and created groundballs. Over 2 1/2 seasons, he won 46 games and lost 15.
: He was just about automatic.

提到過去建仔穿著洋基條紋衣時，如機器般穩定地用 9x 英哩的伸卡球讓球棒裂成碎片、
創造滾地球出局，在兩個半的球季獲得 46勝15敗 的成績。

: Friday night at Nationals Park, he climbed a big league mound for the first
: time in more than two years, certainty having long ceded to ambiguity.
: Wang worked remarkably hard to make it back to the majors, but now that
: he had, no one knew what exactly what to expect.

曾經，回到大聯盟投手丘的時間表遙遙無期。 但在兩年多後的今天，他做到了。
(最後一句不會翻...)

: Wang is a major league pitcher again, but he is not yet the same pitcher he
: was before the injury, a fact made solemnly clear in the Washington
: Nationals’8-5 loss to the New York Mets before 30,114. After disaster struck
: in the first inning, Wang allowed six runs — four earned — in four innings
: on eight hits, a walk and a wild pitch. He flashed enough of his old self to
: make his next outing intriguing, but not enough to prevent the Nationals from
: losing their sixth consecutive game, their longest skid of the season.

今天國民隊與大都會隊的比賽，在30,114名觀眾前， 顯示建仔尚未回復過往身手。
建仔4局的投球被敲8安、丟6分中有4分責失、另有一次保送、一次暴投。

雖然建仔投球閃現出過去的樣子，使他的下次出場令人期待，但仍無法終止國民隊
本季最長的六連敗。

: More than two years of grueling rehab following major shoulder surgery –
: subsidized by the Nationals for more than $3 million – finally led Wang
: back to the majors. No matter the nightmare first inning, the Nationals
: viewed Wang simply stepping on the mound as an accomplishment.
: "He’s come a long way,” Nationals pitching coordinator Spin Williams said.
: “From the first time I saw him throw a baseball until now, it’s an
: incredible story. A surgery like that, not many guys can come back from it.”

在經歷肩膀手術後，和兩年多累人的復健，國民隊花了超過3百萬美元，終於使建仔重回
大聯盟。 即使第一局的投球有如夢魘般，國民隊仍視今日的登板是一項成就。

國民投教 Spin Williams說 "他已走了一段漫長的路。從我第一次看他投球到現在，這真
令人不可置信，能從這樣的手術回復的選手並不多。"


: Just after 7 p.m., with the temperature 101 degrees, Wang walked to the
: rubber and picked up the ball. More than 40 Taiwanese media members had
: received a credential. In Taipei, thousands gathered to watch on a big screen
: in a city square. When Wang walked up the dugout steps before throwing in
: the bullpen, 14 cameras shot pictures of him. In a pregame ceremony,
: Manager Davey Johnson presented a Nationals jersey with Wang’s name on the
: back to Jason Yuan, the Taiwanese ambassador to the United States.

王在晚上7點，氣溫華氏101度 (攝氏38.3度...)下登場。
獲准的台灣媒體人員超過40名。
媒體猛拍登場照。
在賽前的典禮，國民教練送了件建仔球衣給台灣駐美大使。


: The comeback story quickly dissolved into cold reality. Wang walked the
: leadoff hitter, Jose Reyes, on four pitches, who then advanced to second on
: a wild pitch. The next three batters smacked singles, including one off the
: left field fence by David Wright, After pitching coach Steve McCatty visited
: the mound, Angel Pagan roped another single.
: At last, Wang induced a groundout from Jason Bay, which scored another run.
: By the time Wang recorded his first out, the Mets led 3-0. Lucas Duda flied
: to left field, a run-scoring sacrifice that ended the inning once
: Ryan Zimmerman caught another runner in a rundown.
: Once the miserable first frame mercifully ended, Wang settled down. He
: retired six of the next sever hitters he faced, striking out David Murphy
: with a sinker. In the fourth inning, second baseman Danny Espinosa booted a
: groundball, a rare error that could have been a double play, and certainly
: should have been one out. Center fielder Rick Ankiel helped Wang after one
: single by throwing a 250-foot bullet home for an out, but the Mets tacked
: two more runs, both unearned.

今日王的比賽狀況，提到首局亂流，但接下來穩住連續解決6名打者，和第4局隊友的失誤
和長傳助殺本壘。


: With one last groundout, his sixth of the night, Wang ended the fourth and
: walked off the mound trailing 6-0. The Nationals got their first hit off
: Dillon Gee in the fourth, and they scored two runs when Jayson Werth forced
: a wild throw with a takeout slide of Jose Reyes with the bases loaded and one
: out.

建仔投完4局，送出6個滾地球出局，在0:6落後下退場。

在同一局，國民靠著Jose Reyes的一壘暴傳失誤從 Dillon Gee手中拿下兩分。

: The Nationals mustered little else until the eighth, when five straight
: singles gave them two runs and loaded the bases with one out. The Nationals’
: chance to get back in the game died, though, when D.J. Carrasco struck out
: Espinosa and Ryan Zimmerman.

第8局國民發起攻勢靠著5隻一安得2分，但是大都會投手 D.J. Carrasco在一出局滿壘
的情況下三振了Espinosa和Zimmerman，使得國民未能多添分數。


: As the Nationals sunk deeper into last place, Wang remained the most
: compelling subplot. He is still recapturing his old arm motion and, for at
: least now, had to change his pitch selection. With the Yankees, Wang relied
: almost solely on his sinker, a relentless approach that produced more than
: two groundouts for every flyout. His sinker averaged 93 mph in 2006 and 2007.
: Friday night, he hit 93 five times, throwing mostly between 90 and 92.
: “His stuff isn’t obviously that kind of stuff,” Williams said. “I think
: he’ll have to use all of his pitches. Before he was primarily a one-pitch
: pitcher. He had a power sinker. Now he’s going to have to use all of them.”
: In spring training, Wang’s motion was too “slingy,” Williams said – his
: arm moved like a catapult, as if he was throwing a pie. Even after he had
: healed from surgery and regained strength, a process chocked with constant
: setbacks, Wang had to correct that.

國民爐主之位坐得越來越穩。

建仔仍在找回過去揮臂動作。
過去建仔主要靠著均速有93英哩的伸卡球，使滾飛出局比超過2:1。
但今天伸卡大多在90~92之間，投教說這讓王得配合其他球種。

投教也說建仔的投球動作像投石車一樣，
這是王必須要修正的。


: “I was really concerned when I saw him throw in the winter,” said Manager
: Davey Johnson, who was then a front-office assistant. “I’m amazed that
: he’s come back and he’s throwing the ball like he is.”
: Wang has come a long way to reach the majors. Now that he’s back, he still
: has questions to answer, his future anything but automatic.


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