[NY dailynews]Wheels come off for Wang

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Wheels come off for Wang

Righty, Yanks fall flat in wild & sloppy sixth




Chien-Ming Wang sinks teeth into glove, but not Red Sox last night.

BOSTON - For an entire season, Joe Torre has found his rotation
to be one maddening wheel of fortune, spinning, spinning, spinning,
with 14 different numbers coming up at various untimely junctures,
none of them named Andy Pettitte or even Jose Contreras.
And now, in the 160th game - another Yankees-Red Sox do-or-die autumn
showdown - it had come up Chien-Ming Wang.

It was not, the manager admitted, exactly what he had in mind
 way back in the spring in Tampa when he sent the 25-year-old Taiwanese
righthander on the last shuttle to Columbus with the reassuring words:
 "Keep the faith, you're No. 1 to come back. Make sure you remain No. 1."

"You mean to say," Torre was asked last night, "you didn't look
at the schedule and think that Wang might very possibly be the guy
you'd want pitching the opener of that final weekend series in Boston?"

Torre smiled. "No, that wasn't what I was thinking," he said.
"To be honest, I felt this was the deepest and best rotation
in all my 10 years here. But I'd always liked him,
from a couple of years ago. He just didn't seem to be overwhelmed.
 He was comfortable in his own skin."

Which, of course, was precisely why Torre felt entirely comfortable
entrusting Wang with this pivotal game in the Yankees' season and why,
after it was over and the Red Sox and Yankees were all even at the top
of the AL East again with two games to play, he felt Wang had more than
justified his faith. Through 16 starts, before and after
 a nearly two-month stint on the disabled list with an inflamed shoulder,
the kid had shown himself to be unflappable and seemingly oblivious
to pressure-cooker
pennant-race baseball in New York.


For the first five innings of Boston's 5-3 win last night,
Wang pitched with that same cool in the face of the unenviable task
 of standing on the Fenway Park mound and trying to keep baseball's most
lethal lineup in check. Then in the sixth, it all unraveled like a horrific panorama of everything that plagued this Yankee team in April, May and June - faulty pitching and defense - when they were seemingly playing themselves out of a race.
Wang, who had demonstrated that composure in striking out Manny Ramirez
and Trot Nixon after David Ortiz's RBI single in the first,
and getting three straight infield groundouts after Jason Varitek's
leadoff homer in the second, could not extricate himself
 from the bases-loaded, one-out crisis he had created in the sixth.


His primary fault was walking Nixon to force home the first run
 of the inning, although Torre later suggested that Wang did not get
 the benefit of the doubt from home plate umpire Mark Wegner
on a couple of pitches. Otherwise, the next two Red Sox runs -
 which ultimately proved to be the killer runs - could not be charged
 to Wang's account.

He got Varitek to hit a hard bouncer to first that should have resulted
 in a forceout of David Ortiz at the plate had Jason Giambi's awkward,
 off-balance throw not eluded Jorge Posada. An ensuing broken-bat sac fly
 by John Olerud to weak-armed Bernie Williams in shallow center field
 made it 5-1, and suddenly it was as if Torre's wheel of fortune
had once again come up bankrupt at the worst possible time.


"I'd have to say I was very satisfied with the way Wang pitched,"

Torre said. "I say that because of all the ground ball outs"
- eight in all through 6-2/3 innings, not including Giambi's misplay.

In fact, you can place the burden of guilt for this loss at the feet
 of the Yankee hitters, particularly the 6-7 hitters,
Posada and Ruben Sierra. It's Posada who created the 2005 Yankee battle
cry "Grind It," but on this night it meant bringing rallies
against David Wells to a grinding in the first and sixth.


Posada struck out with the bases loaded after Hideki Matsui's RBI single
in the first and grounded out with runners at second and third in the sixth.
 Sierra, who looks pretty much done, made the final out behind Posada
 on those two lost opportunities, which loomed even larger when Derek Jeter got the Yankees back in the game with a two-run homer off Wells in the seventh.

When Wang walked Edgar Renteria with two outs in the bottom half,
Torre finally came to get him. He had not shown fright, but
 neither did he show command when he most needed it. His leadoff walk
to Damon in the first and bases-loaded walk to Nixon in the sixth were
what really did him in.


"He got better as the game went on," said Posada,
"and the only pitch he got up in the zone all night was the (home run) pitch
 to Varitek. We just didn't help him out."


Any other time of the year, it was a credible enough performance
to earn Wang another start. However, at this juncture, under these
 uncertain circumstances, Torre is unable to make any such promises.


Maybe things will look a little more promising today
when the manager's wheel of fortune stops on Randy Johnson.

Originally published on October 1, 2005

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/story/351458p-299792c.html

連結的畫面也有王建民的小圖片

大致上torre教練很肯定王建民,前半段教練對王建民的回顧與總評看了挺感人的


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