[翻譯] Approach fails Dice-K

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Approach fails Dice-K
By Rob Bradford
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - Updated: 10:49 AM EST

    NEW YORK - Even a familiar face couldn’t produce familiar
    results.

         Tiger Woods, sitting in the second row behind home plate,
    probably recognized the face, athleticism and competitive nature
    of his former pro-am golfing partner, Red Sox [team stats] pitcher
     Daisuke Matsuzaka.

紐約訊 -- 同樣的表情，卻可能有不同的結局。

坐在本壘後方座位第二排的 Tiger Woods 可能從他的前半職業高爾夫
球友紅襪投手松坂大輔的表情中，讀出了他所熟悉的對運動的熱愛和
戰鬥精神。

    What Woods, and anyone who has spent this decade watching
    Matsuzaka, aren’t familiar with are the results.

         Matsuzaka is used to success. For the fourth straight start,
    he failed to find it.

讓 Woods 和任何在這十年來持續看著松坂大輔投球的人們看不慣的
是比賽的結局。

以往，松坂贏好像是裡所當然。但已經有連續四場比賽，他找不到勝投。

    After surrendering a two-run, seventh inning home run to Johnny
    Damon, Matsuzaka paved the way for a 5-3 Yankees win over the Red
    Sox. It also marked the 24th day in a row the rookie failed to
    move from 13 wins to 14.

在第七局被 Johnny Damon 打出兩分全壘打後，松坂也輸掉了這場
比賽。洋基以 5-3 擊敗紅襪。這也是這名新人卡在第 13 勝，就是
拿不下第 14 勝的第 24 天。

     “All the responsibility for our recent losses,” said Matsuzaka
    after his 27th start of the season (one more than last year), “
    belongs to me.”

「最近的敗投，都是我自己的責任，」松坂在他的第 27 次出賽後說。
這已經比他去年多了一場比賽。

    Yet it wasn’t only Matsuzaka’s inability to come out on the
    winning side in what he admitted was one of his season’s most
    anticipated games. It was also the image he portrayed along the
    way.

然而，[這場輸球]意味的不僅是他無法在這場他也承認是本球季最重要
之一的比賽中搶到勝利。[他失去的]還有他一直給人的印象。

    In the ultimate Red Sox litmus test - a game against the Yankees
    in the heart of a pennant race - the professed big-game pitcher
    didn’t win the big game. In fact, Matsuzaka is the only Sox
    starter who has failed to come out on the victorious end on what
    is now a 6-2 road trip.

在紅襪球員必經的的終極石蕊試紙測試 --- 在戰況激烈的情況下跟洋
基對打中，松坂這個大家所認為的「大比賽投手」卻沒能贏這場大比
賽。事實上，在紅襪這次 6 勝 2 敗的客場之旅中，松坂是唯一沒能
贏球的先發投手。

    “I felt the way I usually feel,” said Matsuzaka, downplaying any
     anxiousness about facing the Yankees for the first time since
    April 27.

         Fifty-one of his 110 pitches were fastballs, a number down
    from the outing before against the Devil Rays. And the heaters
    touched 93 mph five times, but never got any higher. This after
    charging through April with a fastball that sat in the mid-90s.

「我的感覺和平常一樣，」松坂這麼說，毫不露出從四月 27 日後
第一次面對洋基可能有的焦慮。

他投的 110 球中，有 51 顆速球，比起他面對魔鬼魚之前的比賽
來得少。測速槍有五次顯示 93 mph, 但這就是最高了。在四月時，
他還能一直投出 mid-90 的速球。

    He managed just two strikeouts, a far cry from the seven he put up
     in each of his previous two outings against the Yankees. It was
    an approach, according to Matsuzaka, that was put in place to
    limit a pitch count that had been a source of frustration since
    the end of July.

他只投出兩次三振，和前兩次面對洋基都投出七次比較之下明顯
地減少。據松坂所說，這是為了降低用球數所採取的投球策略之
故。自從七月底後，他就因高用球數所苦。

    “I did sort of abandon the strikeout,” he said, “and try to
    keep my pitch count low, and go deep in the game.”

         No matter the approach, Matsuzaka comes away with a 6.91 ERA
    vs. the Yankees, and the memory of being unable to get a 90 mph
    fastball to the right spot against Damon.

「我確實有點不求三振，而想要壓低用球數，希望多投幾局。」
松坂說。

然而，採用新策略的松坂以對洋基 6.91 的高 ERA ，和與
Damon 對決時無法精準投出 90 mph 速球的慘痛回憶收場。

     “A strikeout-flyball pitcher (like Matsuzaka), you don’t want
    to force too much contact,” said catcher Jason Varitek [stats]. “
    But you want to be aggressive, and he was aggressive.”

「（像松坂這種）三振-高飛球形態的投手，無法強求對手
都能打到你的球，」捕手 Jason Varitek 說，「但你必須
積極點，而[松坂]確實很積極。」

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→ noctem:最後一段不是很有把握，請大家檢查一下...
※ noctem:轉錄至看板 RedSox                                        08/30 00:33
推 longreen:他這一場真的有刻意不強求三振
推 longreen:可惜第一局亂流+2hr...
※ 編輯: noctem          來自: 123.192.157.71       (08/30 00:54)
推 saar:辛苦了 感謝
→ chordate:這就證明了刻意作啥是沒用的...投手最重要的是保持自己
→ chordate:的步調...
推 apic:他已經不求三振了…是否表示以前都追求三振？o_o
推 nally:對，可以看出維尼想省球數!!很之前的維尼不太一樣
→ nally:這場他有刻意改變步調,投球內容不差,但被轟的損傷真的很大!!
推 nally:同意c大每個人都有自己的步調啊~我還是想看三振型的維尼!
推 nally:ps我剛講的"對"不是回ap大嚕~維尼本來就是三振型的,沒有強求
→ noctem:另外一個令人擔心的問題是球速降了。維尼累了嗎？
→ chordate:球速的問題我在前面推文就有提到了
→ chordate:也證明我的看法都沒錯...
推 Pika123:會慢嗎？91.92.93還是一堆阿 這跟日職先發時差不了多少..
→ Pika123:另外他有88.89看起來像直球的應該是cutter 不覺得他慢掉了
→ Pika123:還有另外如果看紅襪主場gameday 大約會慢3mile 北極也一樣
→ Pika123:另外水手主場gameday會多2-3mile..每個人都一樣..
→ Pika123:你每一場去看 看每個投手在每個球場的球速 就大概知道球速
→ Pika123:在gameday顯示是多了還是少了..
推 ARAKI:我覺得最後一段是在講 面對高三振高好球率的松阪
→ ARAKI:妳沒辦法每次都咬中球 但還是必須要積極揮擊
應要求刪部份推文... :)
※ 編輯: noctem          來自: 140.109.20.217       (08/30 14:40)