Papi talk - 美國職棒

A lot of people ask me about all of the clutch hits I had in 2004, but let me
tell you: It was a lot more than me. In baseball, it takes a lot of people to
win a game. It’s like I said before. You have to pitch, you have to hit, you
have to play defense. If you don’t do any one of those things right, you can
lose the game. We had a lot of people do a lot of things right when we
started to play better against the Yankees. It wasn’t just me.

有很多人問我有關 2004 年我所打出的所有關鍵安打，但我必須要說清楚：那不
是我一個人可以辦到的。棒球，是要許多人的努力才能贏下的。這就像我說過的
。你必須要有人投球，你必須要有人打擊，你必須要有人守備。如果你缺少了任
何一環，你就會輸掉比賽。當我們開始比洋基表現的好時，我們有許多人做了許
多正確的事。不只是我一個人。

I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

我不過是出現在正確的地方，正確的時刻罷了。

In Game 4, by the time my homer landed in the Yankees’ bullpen, we had a
6-4 win and everybody was going crazy. My teammates all came running out of
the dugout and we celebrated at home plate, and I threw my helmet in the air
just before I stepped on the plate. But we still had a lot of work to do. The
Yankees still led the series, three games to one, but Game 4 gave us some of
our confidence back. We got some momentum. A lot of reporters wanted to talk
to me after the game, and I remember telling them not to give up on us, not
to think that it was over yet.

在第四場比賽中，當我的全壘打落在洋基的牛棚時，我們以 6-4 贏下了這場比
賽，然後，所有人都陷入了瘋狂。我的所有隊友都從休息區衝出來，我們在本壘
慶祝著，而我在踏到本壘板前就把我的頭盔丟向空中。不過，我們還有許多事要
做。洋基仍然以三比一在系列賽中領先，但第四場比賽讓我們找回了一些自信。
我們有了動力。有很多記者想在賽後訪問我，而我記得我跟他們說，不要放棄我
們，不要以為這已經結束了。

“Things can change,” I said. “You never know what can happen from now
on. We played a really good game tonight. It was a totally different game
than the one we played (in Game 3, when we lost 19-8).”

我說，＂世事難料，你永遠不知道現在開始會發生什麼事。我們今晚打的真的很
好。這跟我們之前打的完全不一樣（第三場我們以 19-8 輸了比賽）。＂

In some ways, Game 5 was a lot like Game 4. On two straight nights,
against the Yankees in the American League Championship Series, I had two
walkoff hits. My phone was ringing off the hook. The chances of anybody
getting two walkoff hits like that, in about 24 hours, are probably about the
same as a team coming back to win four straight after losing the first three
games of a seven-game series.

就某種程度而言，第五場比賽比較像第四場。在美聯冠軍系列賽面對洋基隊，我
連續在兩個晚上打出了再見安打。我的電話響個不停。一個人在短短二十四小時
打出了兩支再見安打，這樣的轉變就像一隻球隊在七戰四勝的系列賽中，由三連
敗的泥沼中以四連勝贏下系列賽一般。

By now, I’m sure you know that we went to New York and won the last two
games to eliminate the Yankees and win the series, coming all the way back
after losing the first three games. In Game 6, Mark Bellhorn hit a big
three-run homer against Jon Lieber, who shut us down in Game 2, and (Curt)
Schilling came back to pitch on a bad ankle and shut down the Yankees. On the
next night, in Game 7, I hit a two-run homer in the first and we scored four
more runs in the second. The Yankees never really had a chance. We won the
game, 10-3, and nobody was asking questions about whether we could come back
and beat the Yankees anymore.

現在，我相信你們已經知道，我們到了紐約贏下了最後的兩場比賽並淘汰了洋基
，由一開始連輸三場的劣勢中逆轉獲勝。在第六場比賽中，Mark Bellhorn 由在
第二場表現出色的 Jon Lieber 手中敲出重要的三分打點全壘打，而且 (Curt)
Schilling 不顧腳踝傷勢上場投球並讓洋基難有攻勢。在隔夜，第七場比賽，我
在第一局打了一支兩分打點全壘打，然後我們在第二局又攻下了四分。洋基完全
沒有機會。我們以 10-3 贏了比賽，並且沒有人再問我們是否可以逆轉打敗洋基
了。

For me, after the walkoff hits in Games 4 and 5, things were just
starting to change, but I really didn’t have time to notice yet. I got named
the American League Championship Series MVP after hitting for a .387 average
with three home runs and 11 RBIs in the series, but I was still focused on
other things. As happy as everybody was, we still had work to do.

對我而言，在第四及第五場比賽打出再見安打後，事情便開始有了改變，但我完
全沒有空去注意。我在系列賽中以 .387 的打擊率加上三支全壘打及 11 分打點
獲選為美聯冠軍系列賽的最有價值球員，但我只注意另一件事。我們就跟所有人
一樣的高興，但我們還有事情要做。

We were going to the World Series.

我們還要打世界大賽。

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