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Chien-Ming Wang’s confidence on the rise after victory over Mets
By Pete Caldera / The Record (Hackensack N.J.) | Monday, June 29, 2009
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NEW YORK — A victory wasn’t the only thing Chien-Ming Wang sought at
Citi Field on Sunday night.
After over a year without earning a win, Wang has been trying — pitch by
pitch, inning by inning, start by start — to recapture some of what Joe
Torre once termed around the Yankees as his "inner conceit."
A good measure of that silent swagger returned to Wang, who won his first
game since June 15, 2008, in the Yankees’ 4-2 victory over the Mets.
Though far from spectacular, Wang was solid through 51/3 innings — aided
by excellent infield defense and a bullpen that recorded the final 11
outs, culminating in Mariano Rivera’s 500th career save.
Wang admitted to gaining another measure of confidence after the victory.
It was "too long" between wins, he said, but his only focus was to "go out
and pitch" the way he knew how.
In his longest outing of the season, Wang (1-6) gave up two runs on four
hits, with three walks, a hit batsman and three strikeouts. Wang used 85
pitches, his second-highest total this year, and nine of his last 13 outs
came on grounders.
Wang exited in the sixth, with one out and a man on second base, and
watched as Phil Coke and Phil Hughes retired the next two batters to
preserve the Yankees’ 3-2 lead.
With lefties batting .429 against Wang entering the game, manager Joe
Girardi summoned Coke to face Fernando Martinez, who struck out.
In his previous at-bat, Martinez drove an opposite-field RBI double off
the left field wall, and Luis Castillo completed the two-run fourth inning
with a two-out RBI single.
Wang’s only spotless inning was the fifth, when he retired the top of the
Mets’ depleted order — Daniel Murphy, Alex Cora [stats], David Wright —
on a strikeout and two groundouts.
Alex Rodriguez made his second exceptional play of the night, charging
Wright’s slow grounder toward third and throwing off balance.
In the third inning, shortstop Derek Jeter — after missing the previous
two games due to a bad cold — made a diving play to his left to rob
Wright and start an inning-ending double play.
Nothing like a few bold plays to help boost your psyche.
Because, ever since he suffered that season-ending foot injury last June,
Wang’s confidence has been as much of an issue as his flagging sinker.
"I think his confidence level has increased. We’re just looking for
consistency in his sinker, and to use his other pitches 1/8more
effectively3/8," Girardi said, just a few hours before Wang made his fifth
start since coming off the disabled list.
Wang was able to make an in-game correction to lower the plane on his
signature sinker.
He’s also going to work on slowing up his delivery to the plate. He felt
he was too quick early in Sunday’s game.
Wang had gone five innings in each of his last two starts, but lost 3-2 to
Washington at Yankee Stadium, and lost 4-0 at Atlanta.
"He pitched well enough his last two times to get a win, and we haven’t
scored many runs," said Girardi, whose club had averaged a paltry 1.57
runs per Wang start entering Sunday.
The Yankees began Sunday night with three runs in the first inning off
Livan Hernandez, but that was all the largesse Wang would be permitted.
Even with his 0-6 start, Wang entered Sunday with the third-best winning
percentage of any starter since the opening day of 2006.
Among starters with a minimum of 60 games pitched, Wang’s .686 winning
percentage ranked behind only Roy Halladay (.721) and Brandon Webb (.691).
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