[外電] Judgment day for Wang

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Judgment day for Wang

Wang was the ace of the Yankees’ staff last season.
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MLB. If Chien-Ming Wang can’t get his signature pitch to sink, he won’t
be rising to the rotation.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi will get to see just how effective Wang’s
sinker is when the pitcher returns to Yankee Stadium today  for a side
session. Wang has been making rehab starts since being placed on the
disabled list April 24 with a hip injury.  Wang’s velocity has been
clocked between 88 and 93 mph, while his secondary pitches have improved.
“There was some inconsistency in his sinker, and we want see how he’s
doing. Then we’ll make the decision after that,” Girardi said before
last night’s series finale with the Twins, which ended too late for this
edition.
In two minor league rehab starts Wang has thrown 13 shutout innings.
Sunday in Scranton-Wilkes Barre, the right-hander threw a seven-inning
complete game.  He faced a lineup featuring Indians slugger Travis Hafner
and allowed only four hits and threw 49 of 75 pitches for strikes.
Before being placed on the disabled list, Wang was 0-2 with a 34.50 ERA.
In six innings he had been rocked for 23 runs and 23 hits.
After evaluating Wang, the Yankees will decide on the next step, though a
return to the majors would likely be after this turn through the rotation.
 Phil Hughes has made four fill-in starts for Wang. Hughes’ next
scheduled outing is tomorrow against the Orioles.

One player expected to return is eighth-inning setup man Brian Bruney, who
last pitched April 21.   Bruney has been on the disabled list with a right
elbow injury that he believes was caused by warming up through the entire
8 ½ minute video review of a Jorge Posada home run on April 19.

Bruney said that he spoke with the player’s association about it and they
told him there was a central office in charge of handling reviews.

“I don’t know if somebody was on a lunch break or what,” he said, “But
eight and a half minutes is a long time for anybody to be throwing.”

Bruney started the second game of a doubleheader for Scranton-Wilkes Barre
and threw 15 pitches in his only inning.

Girardi said the only way Bruney would not return if the right-hander told
him he was not ready to pitch.

When Bruney returns, it will end the constant mixing and matching in the
eighth. Entering yesterday, the Yankees are 12-11 without Bruney and they
have played nine games in which they led or were tied in the eighth.

In those games, relievers only allowed two runs and that was Saturday when
left-hander Phil Coke allowed a solo home run to Justin Morneau and an RBI
double to Brian Buscher.

Bruney’s return also means that a reliever will be sent down as the
Yankees do not intend to carry 13 pitchers.   The only relievers with
options are Jonathan Albaladejo, Edwar Ramirez and Alfredo Aceves.


LARRY FLEISHER


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推 enkidu0830:最近洋基六連勝 不急著把建仔送回MLB
→ enkidu0830:倘若 洋基連敗 我看就不是這樣
→ enkidu0830:連三場爆 建仔 讓教練團對他的信任全沒了
→ enkidu0830:建仔 辛苦了  還是希望你快快回到MLB讓我們不無聊
推 Beretta:王:X  幾天沒投球  把我當病貓  復出馬上給你來個無安打!!
推 jcdmcd7859:推enkidu0830  前兩行
推 provence1978:作者是個WWE迷.....
→ vaughn:重點是休斯的測試還不夠，其他又很穩，暫時沒有小王的位子
推 GodKen:是要說幾次,只要王投的好,那位子就會是他的,跟hughes無關
推 artbook:樓上，如果投的好一直上不去你要負責嗎?
推 jwencmc:樓上，在小聯盟最多也只有30天吧   不用太擔心
→ jlu:Hughes投得好,王變成交易籌碼機會搞不好真的會大增~ XD
→ provence1978:人家在judgment day，推文快變成SummerSlam....
推 onemen:還以為是摔跤版.....末日審判都出現了
→ provence1978:聽說這次judgment day的劇情很扯....