[外電] MLB.com 最新新聞稿 All eyes on the Bronx for Game 4

[aandrea (aandrea)]

這剛發的新聞稿
最後還列了一個表格
列出從外卡實施以來
近十年來
短暫休息就出賽第四戰的先發投手!!!

http://0rz.tw/333d9

這篇文章寫的很好
大家熬夜幫小王集氣時
一起翻一翻

We believe in Wang! We believe in Yankee! Yankee sweeps Indians!

By Barry M. Bloom

The Yankees and Indians will play Game 4 of their American League Division
Series at Yankee Stadium on Monday at 7:37 p.m. ET, and the baseball world
will be watching.

With the other three Division Series completed in the minimum three games,
it's the only playoff baseball left on tap until later in the week. And what
a game it should be. A win for the Yankees will send the series back to
Cleveland's Jacobs Field for a decisive Game 5 on Wednesday. An Indians
victory will send them to Boston for the opening of the AL Championship
Series on Friday night against the Red Sox.

"Any club that's in the postseason certainly is capable of winning three games
 in a row," said Yankees manager Joe Torre after his team came back from a 3-0
 deficit in Game 3 on Sunday to win, 8-4, and pull within 2-1 in the best-of-
five series.

"But we have to make sure that we still stay focused on what we need to do
[Monday]. We get a chance to come back [Monday] and win a ballgame and build
more momentum. We understand if we win [Monday], we have to go back over to
Cleveland. And we don't have a good memory of what happened over there. So we
have to make sure that we don't get too far ahead of ourselves."

The penultimate game of the series will pit Chien-Ming Wang, the Yanks'
ravaged Game 1 starter on three days' rest, against Paul Byrd, Cleveland's
No. 4 starter, but a 15-game regular-season winner.

With Wang starting, the Yanks lost the first game, 12-3, and were beaten,
2-1, in 11 innings in Game 2 when a swarm of gnats descended on the Jake
from Lake Erie in the eighth inning and caused rookie Joba Chamberlain to
lose his composure. The Yanks also were held to three hits in the game by
starter Fausto Carmona and reliever Rafael Perez.

On Sunday, the day began with Yankees principal owner George Steinbrenner
threatening to dismiss Torre if the Yankees didn't win the series.

The Indians then built a 3-0 lead against Roger Clemens, who, looking every
bit his 45 years of age, had to leave the game in the third inning because
of a strained left hamstring. When things appeared dire for the Yankees,
Johnny Damon came through, driving in four runs with a single and a fifth-
inning, three-run homer off Tribe starter Jack Westbrook that gave the Yanks
the lead for good.

"Today was huge because it gives us another day of life," said Damon, who
has now homered twice in the series. "I know we're going to be coming with
our best game [Monday]. So we hope to get back to Cleveland. We hope to keep
playing for Joe. And there are a lot of things that we need to be proud of."

Torre moved up Wang and now has veteran 14-game postseason winner Andy
Pettitte in reserve to start on Wednesday night. Cleveland manager Eric
Wedge could have gone with 19-game winner C.C. Sabathia in Game 4 and Carmona,
his second 19-game winner in Game 5, if necessary. But instead he opted to
stick with Byrd and Sabathia for the possible finale.

"I'm kind of like a little gun," Byrd said about making the big start. "No,
I'm just kidding. We had two Cy Young [Award] candidates and then Jake and
myself. I think Wedgie went with some matchups. I'm excited to get the start
[Monday]. I'm looking forward to it. There's a great atmosphere in Yankee
Stadium. It's a great place to pitch. And I'll be excited to take the mound."

The Yanks are only one of four teams to come back from an 0-2 deficit since
the Division Series was unveiled for the first time in 1995. They did it in
2001, when they lost the first two games of the ALDS at home to the A's, but
came back to win two games in Oakland and the finale in New York. Game 3, a
1-0 Yanks win, turned in the seventh inning on the famous back-handed flip
play when Yanks shortstop Derek Jeter nailed Jeremy Giambi standing up at
home plate.

And Wedge knows that the old Stadium in the South Bronx will again be rocking
on Monday.

"There's always a lot of excitement here," he said. "A little bit more,
obviously, in the playoffs. I mean, it's that time of the year. I think our
guys did a good job of handling it, but I don't think we played particularly
well today. We opened up some doors and gave them some opportunities."

The opportunity is there now for all of the baseball-loving world. The Yanks
must win to survive. The Indians must win to move on. It's the postseason,
and on Monday night, it will be one-stop shopping.




--
※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc)
◆ From: 220.141.55.82
推 dreamkid:看完表列~~~抖~~~orz
→ pdaer:小王壓力超大@@ 希望結果是好的!!!!
推 kony25:免驚!!我已經賭了一個便當了!洋基贏!
推 whogotme:縮址 http://0rz.tw/333d9
→ whogotme:投手本身是還好 反而是火力支援問題...
※ 編輯: aandrea         來自: 220.141.55.82        (10/09 03:15)
→ Gmo:翻到一半就懶得翻了.廢話一堆
噓 Bears:純噓土著 要得到尊重前先學著尊重吧
→ Bears:shit 噓錯篇
推 Bears:抱歉 推回來
推 jonw0115:sweep是直落三的意思耶...