[新聞] A-Rod 也很自責了...大家饒了他吧

[singhuan (YHuan)]

Alex Rodriguez may very well collect his second American
League Most Valuable Player Award next month, but he will
likely remember the 2005 season for its disappointing finish.

Rodriguez and the Yankees were eliminated from the postseason
on Monday night, when they fell to the Angels, 5-3, in Game 5
of the American League Division Series.

A-Rod finished the series with a meager .133 batting average,
collecting just two hits in 15 at-bats. He did not drive in a run.

In the ninth inning of Game 5, Rodriguez had one final chance to
erase his performance for the entire series. He stepped to the plate
with Derek Jeter at first base and his team trailing by two runs.

But A-Rod grounded into a 5-4-3 double play, and there would be no
comeback for New York.

"I can't put it into words; it's as low as it gets," Rodriguez said.
"It's one of those things you can't figure out. I felt good, saw the
ball well, I just had a bad series."

Watching Rodriguez address the media after the game, it appeared that
this loss affected him more than last year's ALCS, when the Yankees
lost four straight games to the Red Sox.

A-Rod stood at his locker, fighting back tears, as he put the onus for
the Yankees' defeat squarely on his own shoulders.

"I played great baseball all year, but I played like a dog the last five
days," Rodriguez said. "At the end of the day, you win or lose as a team,
but I didn't show up."

Rodriguez's regular season was one to remember. He hit .321 with 48 home
runs and 130 RBIs, putting himself in contention with Boston's David Ortiz
for the AL MVP Award.

Rodriguez's season even seemed headed in an upward direction during the final
weekend, when he went 4-for-5 with a home run in the Yankees' division-winning
victory over the Red Sox at Fenway Park.

But once the playoffs started, Rodriguez disappeared.

He managed to finish the series with a .435 on-base percentage, thanks to
six walks and two hit-by-pitches, but Rodriguez credited the Angels'
pitchers with taking a good approach against him.

"They've always pitched me tough," he said. "I thought I did a pretty decent
job of walking. Mike Scioscia knows what he's doing, they did a good job and
I didn't swing the bat very well. You get anxious, you want to hit and
contribute. I just didn't get it done."

Two years into his Yankees career, Rodriguez has an historic loss to the Red
Sox and a grueling defeat to the Angels to look back on. For the past month,
he has said that he felt the Yankees were the best team in baseball, a stance
he still took following Monday's loss.

"I still do, which is what's unfortunate," he said. "Maybe if I would have
contributed some, we'd be moving on to Chicago. I have to take a long look
in the mirror myself, because I didn't do my part."

From: MLB.com--Mark Feinsand





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推 jackydai:我相信明年的A-Rod會變得很強,痛定思痛後會更進步的!!!
推 viking0518:小聲說..那一球是真的很"543"..XD
→ viking0518:不過...A-ROD加油阿..有拿下冠軍,大家都會忘記以前的
推 burdette:重要的是季後賽變強,才能洗刷今年的不名譽
推 HsuanF:英雄不是一天造成的 再繼續萃煉吧
推 kasparov:借轉A-Rod板喔~3Q!
→ onepiece01:才30歲 路還長的很 一時錯誤不代表永遠 加油
推 DAING:當然不會再怪他啦 比賽都結束了 只會希望他下次能打的更好
→ linmengkai:http://tinyurl.com/92ft7
推 proletariat:當年Dave Winfield被史老闆戲稱五月先生最後也雪恥了
→ proletariat:相信ARod只要保持實力不怕沒機會
推 Fuuuck:去跟美國的洋基迷說吧
→ Fuuuck:NYYfans.com的戰犯排行榜A-rod排第二，第一是譙整隊
推 xan222:棒球不是拼了命就會打出去的... 一直批幹麻?!
推 burdette:在紐約打球的壓力是很大的,所以有些球員選擇其他城市
推 Schnell:紐約客就是這樣阿,Rj被打暴那場連主場觀眾都噓聲四起 0.0
→ dongone:A-Rod 加油!!
推 qaz2004:比賽都過了  只是洋基輸的當時真的有點不爽  囧rz
推 noonecan:我比較幹松井..他多打一支安打的話..就算A-Rod雙殺也不會
→ noonecan:早成太大傷害..而且松井狂POP OUT 看得很不爽
推 brightsai:A-ROD是很強啦，不過你們還記得去年打手事件嗎？