Schilling部落格 - 美國職棒

Nice to be able to start a post game thread with something other than “I
sucked and we lost”.

終於不用第一行是"我投的很爛然後輸球"


Figured it would be quickest to get to the middle part of the game, when
things began to get interesting. We got to the fourth in a 1-0 game because
David homered in the first, Blanton shut us down after that and Jason and I
were executing our game plan. When we made a mistake it got hit at someone or
taken for a strike.

老爹幹了發砲，爽

I knew, or felt I knew, after the third that this was going to be a game that
stayed 1-0 unless we couldn’t keep them down. As I was sitting in the dugout
thinking through the fifth inning, the fact that we’d only faced 12 hitters
was not lost on me. Certainly too early to be concerned or worried about a
no-no or perfect game, but you can’t get either if you don’t get to this
point anyway.

莫名其妙沒人上到壘包

The fifth started with Eric flying to shallow left on a 1-1 split. Cust went
after the first pitch back door slider, which was more middle than anything,
then on a 1-2 count chased a split for the fourth, and unbeknownst to me at
the time, final, strikeout. We got Johnson to 1-2 and threw a curve that he
grounded to short, the error ended the perfect game and as with the prior 14
batters and the next 15, it was easy to not lose focus. A 1-0 game is one
pitch away from a tie, and with a runner on one pitch away from a 2-1 game if
you don’t stay pitch to pitch, hitter to hitter and inning to inning.
Scutaro worked a six pitch AB that ended on a fly out to right on a split.
Five innings, 65 pitches and still no hits.

這次的Three True outcome是K, 然後Lugo應該去吃屎

At this point it starts to be something that I, and maybe I am the only
pitcher on the planet that would pay serious attention to it, contemplate the
possibility of. I know it, everyone paying attention knows it. The main
reason it’s something that was easy to not let affect me was that the game
was 1-0, so the bunt is in play for every guy that may potentially lay one
down.

我沒有忘記會有人用短打來鬧我

I was asked about the bunt after the game, and someone referenced Ben Davis
bunting to break up a perfect game in the 8th inning in 2002. I said what I’
ve always said. I never said a word about that bunt and whether or not I
thought it was ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, and I never have. The game was 2-0 at
that point, so the tying run was at the plate and the hitter was someone who’
d swung the bat well against me. I was shocked at the bunt, caught off guard,
but there is no quote anywhere, nor could there be, in which I said anything
about the play being ‘bush’ or whatever term some people used. I wish he
hadn’t bunted, I wish he’d laid down a good one actually. To lose a perfect
game on arguably the worst bunt I’ve ever given up was the disappointing
part of it. But as far as playing the game ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ it never
occurred to me. You play to win, and do so within the ‘unwritten’ rules is
something most guys do. I don’t think many guys would have the gumption to
bunt but I also think you do what you think you need to do to win a game,
again, within the rules, written or unwritten.

上次就有人用短打表我. 我假裝我沒有不爽，但是其實心裡很賭懶


So anyway, the bunt is something I make sure Mike, Kevin and I are all aware
of. Who’s going where on a drag and which hitters I think Mike can cheat in
on.

一壘三壘都知道搞不好會有短打

The first hitter of the sixth was the first real “I might throw a no hitter”
moment for me, during the game. Kotsay hits a first pitch back door slider
that’s over the heart of the plate to deep center field. I think it’s a hit
off the bat, and as has happened so often this year Coco closes the gap
between the ball and himself when it looks like he has no chance, and makes
an awesome play. Kendall hits into the defense for the second out on a 1-1
fastball away (same pitch Stewart hit btw), and on a 2-2 fastball Stewart
grounds to Youk to end the inning.

Coco nice play, 我在要兩個出局數

Now it starts to get fun for me. Again, the easy part was this was all
happening within the framework of a 1-0 game, so the focus part of it was not
a challenge. I’ve never taken a no hitter into a game this late with a huge
lead. The San Diego game was 2-0 at the time as well. So I am sitting in the
dugout going through the 7th inning lineup and thinking about sequences. My
main concern was Ellis, as well as he was swinging the bat against us I was
concerned that I’d not come in on him, and that he was putting some good
swings on the ball.

第7局，我開始暗爽了

He leads off the 7th taking a fastball away for a strike and then hits what
probably would have been the first hit of the game had Mike not made a
fantastic play. It may not have looked like much but from the mound we get to
see the tough hops and bad bounces and you can almost see them before they
happen. He got one, kept the ball in front of him and made a great play for
the first out. Swisher gets jammed and I am not sure if Youks getting the
ball or a bat to the head as the barrel goes sailing by him, and makes
another great play for out number two. Eric grounds and 0-2 split to second
for the final out and walking off the mound I can now hear and feel Sox
Nation getting riled up.

Mike Lowell nice play, Youkilis nice play, 我再要一個出局數

Last year I was lucky enough to strike out my 3000th hitter. I did it in
Oakland and I can vividly remember the class they showed through the ovation
they gave me. I’ve never gotten a good read on the fans there as a whole
since they are pretty much the worst in sports during batting practice, but
they are very astute fans when it comes to in game events and I could sense
there was a contingent of A’s fans hoping to see it happen as well. Right or
not that’s what it sounded like.


去年我在Oakland拿到3000K.
(小弟補充: 幹那天我在現場，那場被打爆)

So I am sitting in the dugout working through the 8th in my head. Scutaro is
the the guy I am thinking ahead on. Hoping he’ll stick to his approach since
I feel like our game plan and defense is setup to take advantage of it and
the fact that being a little guy, height wise, he can hit a fastball. One of
the truisms in baseball is that there has never ever been a big league hitter
under six feet tall that couldn’t ‘pull a bullet’. Little guys don’t get
to the big leagues hitting the breaking stuff and most of them are fantastic
high fastball hitters since their strike zone is somewhat different than most.

Scutaro會拉打我要小心

First pitch outs are always huge. First pitch outs in close games are doubly
huge. First pitch outs in 1-0 games in which you have a no-hitter are
extraordinarily huge. Cust leads off the 8th by grounding a first pitch curve
ball to Youk. I would imagine I am not that different than most pitchers in
that each hitter, for me, from an approach standpoint, is a detailed plan and
path to an out from how I want to pitch. Hitters, I think, vastly
underestimate the magnitude of making outs on the first pitch and how much of
a relief it is to pitchers. With one out we go back to curve ball to Johnson
for a strike, end up running the count to 2-2 and get him to ground back to
me on a 2-2 split. Scutaro ends the inning by flying to center on a fastball
away on the second pitch of the AB.


Three True Outcome God 居然揮了第一球!!! 而且出局，爽.

Ok, now it gets real interesting for me. Walking off the field I am thinking
of my wife and my kids. Shonda and I had often talked about what throwing a
no-hitter would be like. She’s been at pretty much every significant event I
’ve ever achieved in this game and she’s always joked about how I better
not do it when she wasn’t there. I am walking off the mound, and it’s
pretty loud at this point, and I know that she’s somewhere thinking and
praying I do it, but at the same time feeling her gut wrench because she’s
not there.

我老婆常嗆我說都沒有投過無安打比賽

I am also thinking and praying that if it doesn’t happen, and if I do give
up a hit, that it’s clean. I know how much pressure the guys in the field
are feeling. None of them wants to be the guy to get a questionable ball at
this point, nor do I want them to. Add to that, it’s still 1-0, we’ve lost
four straight and I just want to win this game and have it over. I also want
to enjoy the fact that I’ve never been here, most likely won’t ever be
again, and after 450 plus starts in the major leagues how cool it is to
experience something I’ve never experienced. I’m trying to soak it in but
in all honesty I can’t. We need to win this game. Then I think “Damn, I’ve
gotten 24 of them already, what’s getting 3 more?”

他還在自high

I know it’s far from easy but the score really did allow me to keep the
mindset I’d had all day. While it’s crossed my mind between innings it was
never a prevalent thought when I was trying to execute pitches.

比分讓我能叫專心. (屁啦)

Our ninth ends rather quick, which is nice, and I stroll out for the final
inning. Sox Nation is way into it, I can hear them, which is cool. I am also
thinking about a few thousand or so friends of mine that I know are tuned in.
30+ thousand ALS patients, a lot of which I know follow my starts, that are
probably as nervous as anyone. My son Gehrig, who just this week had thrown a
five inning no-hitter. My Yavapai teammates that I am going to be seeing in
Phoenix, my little league coaches, as a group I am wondering what’s going
through their minds as I am warming up. One of the greatest things about
doing what I do for a living is knowing how much these games mean to people
that have helped me get to this point, that so many of them do live and die
with every pitch we throw. The fact that God gave me the ability to impact
peoples lives in this way is something you wish everyone had a chance to
experience.

他自以為他的朋友都在看球. 他兒子這禮拜投了5局沒安打比賽. 所以他比他兒子還不如

The thought process between innings was somewhat grueling. The first two
hitters in the ninth are both guys I’ve faced over 70 times each in my
career. There will be no shocks or surprises, no tricks. In a way, looking
back on it, I think it made it easier because in my mind it really came down
to execution. I thought the advantage I had at this point was that I was
throwing 93-95 from about the 5th inning on and I’d seen neither of them
since that point. Having a little extra was a weapon that I thought would,
and it did, give me the ability to stay true to what I know, do it, and have
it work. Kotsay took a first pitch fastball strike, away, fouled a pitch and
then took a high fastball to go 1-2. He grounded the next fastball away to
short, Julio made a nice play too, for the first out. Jason took two
fastballs to go 1-1, then hit a fastball to short again, for the second out.
The ball was up a bit and watching the swing it seems he was trying to hit
against the defense, seeing the outfield shifted to right it looked like he
was trying to hook the ball. I think, had I not had a little extra, he might
have done it.

在兩個出局數

This was the very first time I actually said to myself, on the mound, “Holy
crap, I think I am going to do this.” I knew EXACTLY what I wanted to do
with Shannon and felt I knew exactly what he was going to come to the plate
trying to do.

"我第一次認為我有可能真的搞定!!!"

Now comes the infamous ‘shake’. In talking with Tek after the game it’s
clear to me that he was 100% spot on with his thought, and I was completely
wrong with mine. Why would he take a strike at this point? I had gone to 1
three ball count all day. I wasn’t going to walk him and the only thing you
do at that point, by taking a strike, is allow me freedom to use my split.
There was no way in hell he was taking. I was sure otherwise. So I shake off
the slider, execute the pitch I want, and he lines it to right.

Varitek: 就跟你講要投slider, 你結果頭那什麼爛紅中直球，被打活該.
老師的話，你有在聽嗎? 沒有再聽嗎.

There was about 1.5 seconds of disappointment there on my end. It would have
been damn cool, hell it would have been awesome, to throw the no-no. As soon
as the ball hit the outfield grass I thought “Ok what do I want to do with
Ellis?” I hadn’t even contemplated him hitting up to this point. Tek was
starting to come to the mound, Mike did as well. I waved them both off as I
was absolutely locked into getting this next out. This win was something we
sorely needed but it was cool as hell to know the two veteran leaders on this
team are that aware of how the game and the mind can work. Neither wanted me
to let this slip by going to a bad place mentally. Given how inconsistent I
have been to this point in the season I was sure that was not going to be an
issue.

Varitek/Lowell過來跟我聊個天, 他們怕我B調

So the game ends two pitches later when Alex clutches Marks pop up. I am
pretty fired up given what I thought was the magnitude of the game. It’s
June, we are 10 games up, must wins are a media creation at this point but at
the same time a losing streak is a losing streak and no one feels good about
themselves or their teams when you drop 4-5 games in a row.

他自以為這場不是must-win. 這場沒贏小弟懶趴就直接燒爛了

I think most, if not all good pitchers want to be known as ‘stoppers’ when
it comes to ending losing streaks. I know it’s something I’ve always been
very aware of and tried to approach with that mentality, but in the end you
have to execute. Our staff is so solid and so deep that we shouldn’t ever
have to deal with long losing streaks. I think we all feel that any one of us
can go out and throw up 7 scoreless on any given night, and good staffs like
that thrive on each others performances.

大姊認為Tavarez會得Cy Young

In the locker room after the game Eric Hinske comes up and says “Man, we
just stopped a four game losing streak, our starter just won 1-0, threw a one
hitter and I am so damn mad right now.” We laughed our butts off. There were
quite a few guys uttering those same thoughts and you have to realize what
that means. I’ve watched guys do this before, come close, miss it. But as a
team, we are all so invested in each other and care that much about each
other that when something happens to one of us, most of us feel it. It’s a
pretty rare dynamic in team sports theses days but when you are on a team
that has that makeup you enjoy the hell out of it, because it might be the
last time you get the honor of being a part of something that special.

Hinske講了些屁話

Funny thing is you wake up the next morning, the world moves on, and you get
ready to do it all over again in five days.

5天後再來


BTW, to the folks at SOSH, cool game thread and Lucen you suck! 30,000 posts
into your SOSH career and you know better than to mess with baseball karma
you dolt.

幹，都是你們這群SOSH的鄉民亂講話.

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