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When the Yankees Need His Best, Wang Delivers His Worst

By TYLER KEPNER
Published: August 9, 2007


When you have Halladay on the mound, you know you have to control it,”
Yankees Manager Joe Torre said. “You know you have to keep them down.
When we couldn’t do that, you realized it was a tall order.”

Wang suffered through the worst performance of his career,
lasting just two and two-thirds innings in a 15-4 rout by the Toronto Blue Jays.
It was the shortest of Wang’s 71 career starts, and he allowed
a career-high eight runs.


For the Yankees, who had won five in a row,
it was a dreary way to start a challenging chunk of their schedule.
Starting Friday in Cleveland, the Yankees play 17 of 20 games against
four of the best teams in the American League.


“Right now, we’re probably as good a team as we’ve been all year,”
Torre said. “
We’ll see how good that is when we test ourselves against the better teams.”


Despite the blowout, the Yankees left town with another series victory.
They were 21-8 in a stretch against games teams that were under .
500 at the All-Star Game break.

“We played well, we have some momentum and we have some guys swinging
very hot bats right now,” Johnny Damon said.
"I think we’re feeling pretty good about our chances.”


The effectiveness of Wang’s sinker is muted, to some degree,
by playing on artificial turf, where ground balls get through the infield
quicker.
In 10 career starts on turf, Wang has a 5.17 earned run average;
his E.R.A. on grass is 3.64.

But this game was less about the playing surface than Wang’s location.
He was consistently up in the strike zone with his sinker,
and when he went to a slider, as he did against Vernon Wells in the third,
he often hung it.

Wells slammed that pitch to left for a double,
one of five hits off Wang in a five-run inning.
That followed a three-run first in which Matt Stairs and Alex Rios doubled.
Wang allowed no home runs, but the Blue Jays collected five doubles off him,
among their nine hits.

以下是小王的訪問@@

"Everything was down the middle,” Wang said, adding later,
"The low ball was too low, in the dirt.”

Wang said he was not bothered by his troublesome fingernail,
which has split because of the pressure he applies on his sinker.
He said his arm angle was too low,
and he could not remember a start so bad since a game for Class AA Trenton
in 2004.

省略了很多 因為其中說了很多數據以及之前大家有探討過的東西

簡單來說就是洋基現在棒子火熱

Torre以及Damon覺得這場比賽並不會打擊他們的士氣

Damon還說這幾場有幾個小子的棒子正火熱(大概指小卡布與小Q吧XD)

他相信他們不會因為這場就喪失信心



至於小王說到今天的表現 他的低球太低 無法進入好球帶

而小王並不覺得手指甲的傷是造成投不好的原因

小王認為原因應該是投球手臂不夠水準(不太清楚low 是指說低還是低劣@@)


大概整篇大意是這樣@@

如有需要加強的請各位大大指教@@


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/sports/baseball/09yankees.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

(當做練習自己英文@@)


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