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Ace Wang tough as nails again
BY PETER BOTTE
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Monday, July 9th 2007, 4:00 AM
Reggie Willits already had walked to lead off the game, and Chone Figgins was
batting with a 3-1 count. A flash on the center-field scoreboard then noted
that Ron Villone was warming up in the Yankees bullpen.
As far as averted crises go, it turned out that Villone simply was playing
catch with teammate Mike Myers during the first inning. And all was normal
with ace Chien-Ming Wang, who quickly righted himself - and again withstood
discomfort caused by a troublesome fingernail - to toss 6-1/3 shutout innings
in the Yankees' 12-0 victory over the Angels yesterday at the Stadium.
"This kid has that thing he keeps dealing with, with his finger ... but he's
pretty special," Torre said after Wang extended his scoreless innings string
to 13-1/3 over his last two starts. "The finger gets a little ugly after a
time, but that's just what he's going to have to deal with throughout his
career. And he seems to be dealing with it pretty well."
Wang, who spent the first three weeks of the season on the disabled list
with a strained hamstring, has spent his last several starts dealing with
a split nail on his right middle finger due to the pressure he puts on the
ball to throw his wicked sinker. Still, Wang has followed up his breakout
19-win 2006 campaign with a 9-4 mark and a 3.36 ERA at the All-Star break.
"It's never going to heal, but you can't ask him not to throw (the sinker)
because that's his best pitch," pitching coach Ron Guidry said. "You know
by the time a week comes by, the finger looks like it's getting (better),
but then he tears it up and you start all over. As long as he's pitching,
it's never going to heal, but he just has to keep pitching with it."
Wang, who was filing his nail between innings in the dugout, noted that the
biggest difference he sees in his performance from last season to this one
has been that his control has been "so-so" in the first half. That appeared
to be the appropriate assessment when he walked Willits and quickly fell
behind Figgins in the first inning, with alarm bells sounding throughout
the Stadium when it was revealed erroneously that Villone was warming in
the pen. "I asked the same question ... I said to Gator, 'Why is Villone
warming up? What don't we like here?'" Torre said. "But they were just
playing catch because we didn't have batting practice."
Villone sat down, and as Guidry put it, "The inning changed in two pitches."
Jorge Posada cut down Willits trying to steal second, and Wang fanned
Figgins on a full-count pitch. Guidry said the 27-year-old righty relied
more often on his changeup than usual yesterday, and Wang scattered five
singles before Torre replaced him with Myers after 88 pitches with a 10-0
lead with one out in the seventh.
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