[外電] THERE'S SOME MING BREWIN'

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 THERE’S SOME MING BREWIN'

By GEORGE KING

June 18, 2007 -- Chien-Ming Wang spent most of yesterday afternoon
receiving treatment for a stiff neck. Trainers Gene Monahan and Steve
Donohue did such a good job that the pain in Wang’s neck was
transferred to the Mets’ butts when Wang hurled the Yankees to an 8-2
Subway Series victory.

“Stiff and tight,” Wang said of the neck problem that was caused by
him sleeping awkwardly Saturday night. “I came in early for treatment,
ultra-sound and heat. During the game it was tight.”

The Mets can only imagine what Wang would have done to them completely
healthy. Using a 95-mph turbo sinker and featuring an improving slider
and change-up, Wang allowed two runs, six hits and fanned a career-high
10.

His whiff of Jose Reyes to end the eighth had the Yankee Stadium crowd
of 55,060 on its feet.

“He was really throwing hard. I didn’t know he was capable of throwing
95, 96, 97,” Carlos Beltran said of Wang, who was lifted with two outs
in the ninth much to the dismay of the crowd that booed Joe Torre for
removing his ace.

The Yankees and Mets split the six Subway Series games; each team
winning two of three at home.

Alex Rodriguez and Johnny Damon homered off loser Orlando “El Duque”
Hernandez (3-3) to help Wang post his fourth straight victory and
improve to 7-4. Jorge Posada added a two-run homer in the eighth.

“A couple mistakes tonight. I tried for good pitches but the mistakes,
they connected very good,” El Duque explained.

Rodriguez hit his major league-leading 27th homer and leads with 73 RBIs
in 67 games. He went 2-for-2, drove in three runs, walked and produced a
sacrifice fly.

The victory enabled the Yankees, who have won 11 of 12, to remain 81/2
games behind the first-place Red Sox in the AL East. The Mets, who have
dropped 11 of 13, are 11/2 games ahead of the second-place Braves and
two lengths on top of the third-place Phillies in the NL East.

“We don’t worry about how we’re playing right now. We know we’re not
playing too good right now. But like I said before to you guys, it’s a
long season,” said Reyes, who was caught trying to steal second in the
fourth on a pitch-out with the Yankees leading, 5-0, and hit into a
3-6-3 double play in the sixth. “There’s gonna be a lot of ups and
downs. We’ve got a great team. We’re gonna be fine. There’s nothing
to worry about.”

“We’re going through a tough time right now. Gotta get back to winning
again,” Willie Randolph said.

Every Yankee in the lineup had at least one hit.

Wang’s shutout bid ended in the seventh when Carlos Delgado’s two-out
double scored David Wright from first. Wright reached when he swung at
strike three but the ball bounced away from Posada.

Asked why he was able to reach double digits in strikeouts for the first
time ever, Wang answered quickly.

“Today, I changed a lot of speed,” he said. “I used the slider and
the change-up.”

“Nights like this are very special,” said Rodriguez, who has 491
homers and batted .379 (11-for-29) with 13 homers and 17 RBIs during the
nine-game homestand. “Wang was unbelievable. To do that to Reyes, a
contact hitter and he blew him away with 96 mph, you don’t see that
every day.”

Especially from a guy who spent the afternoon getting his neck worked
on.

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