YANKS PREVAIL, WANG-NOTHING

[iceman0603 (iii)]

沒有影片看前，找些新聞給大家看看~
內容都差不多，裡面我最喜歡最後一段

"他們會贏得比賽就是因為有王...一個好不容易才從3A升上來的投手，
 或許這三個月中，他才是洋基最可以依靠的堅實臂膀..."

http://www.nypost.com/sports/yankees/49525.htm

DETROIT - George Steinbrenner woke up today to his 75th birthday and even The
Boss had to be grinning a bit about the gift his Yankees sent to Tampa from the
Motor City.

Finally - and thanks to Chien-Ming Wang - the Yankees won a game in which they
didn't score at least three runs by beating the Tigers, 1-0, in front of 40,056
at Comerica Park yesterday.

So, after not winning a game in 79 tilts in which they didn't score at least
three runs - a franchise record - the Yankees wired Steinbrenner a victory
everybody in the organization hopes is the start of something big.

The fact that the second straight win was manufactured by Wang's seven shutout
innings only made it sweeter for the Yankees, who are relying heavily on the
25-year-old from Taiwan. Initially, Wang was in the big leagues until Jaret
Wright returned from a shoulder problem. Not any more.

"We are halfway through the season and you can make the argument that he gives
us the best chance to win," catcher John Flaherty said of Wang, who is 5-3 with
a 3.87 ERA and a serious AL Rookie of the Year candidate with teammate Robinson
Cano.

Considering Randy Johnson and Mike Mussina are housed in the top of the
rotation, that's strong praise for Wang, whose best traits are the ice running
through his veins and a turbo sinker that he throws at the knees and on the
corners.

"He never gets rattled," Flaherty said. "Today, mechanically he was a mess.
He was flying open and underneath the ball, but he made the adjustments."

The victory improved the Yankees' record to 41-39, carried them to a 3-2 road
trip and pulled them to within five games of the first-place Red Sox in the AL
East.

Wang found trouble quickly and often since his lone perfect frame was his last.

Brandon Inge opened the first with a single in front of Wang hitting Placido
Polanco for the first of his two plunkings.

But Carlos Guillen flied to left, Magglio Ordonez lined to left and Pudge
Rodriguez flied to right.

Wang retired Inge to end the second with runners on first and third. Polanco
was hit leading off the third but erased on an inning-ending double play.

A two-out single by Chris Shelton didn't lead to anything in the fourth and
Wang pitched around Polanco's two-out triple in the fifth.

Nursing a 1-0 lead provided by Robinson Cano's double and Gary Sheffield's
single in the fourth off hard-luck loser Nate Robertson (3-7), Wang walked
Ordonez and hit Pudge Rodriguez to start the sixth.

But Dmitri Young fanned and Wang induced Shelton to hit into a 1-4-3 double
play.

"He has the ability to get a ground ball and a double play to get out of
trouble more than anybody on our staff," Flaherty said.

After Tom Gordon worked a perfect eighth that included Guillen chasing Hideki
Matsui to the warning track in left, Mariano Rivera made the Yankees sweat by
giving up a leadoff double to Pudge Rodriguez in the ninth.

Rodriguez never got off second because Young grounded back to Rivera, Shelton
fanned on a 95 mph fastball and Craig Monroe grounded to third to give Rivera
his 18th save.

"It was a big game because we haven't been able to win low-scoring games,"
Joe Torre said.

And the reason they won it was Wang, a pitcher who has made the long journey
from Triple-A starter to perhaps the most dependable Yankee arm inside three
months.




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