[新聞] Wang dominates Toronto (長篇新聞)

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Wang dominates Toronto
Yankees collect 14 hits, remain on top in AL East
By Ryan Mink / MLB.com

NEW YORK -- At this point, Chien-Ming Wang's long outings are barely even
newsworthy. He does them so often.

But this one wasn't as impressive as the last, in which Wang threw a shutout
against the Devil Rays while allowing only two hits.

This time Wang only tossed eight shutout innings and gave up four hits to
lead the Yankees to a 7-2 win over the Blue Jays on Wednesday night.

For the past month, manager Joe Torre repeated the quote that he doesn't like
to expect Wang to pitch seven or eight strong innings every time goes out
because the 26-year-old Taiwan native is so young. Finally, even he had to
surrender.

"I guess I have to be beyond that, because when I send him out there the
only thing you keep an eye on is the pitch count," Torre said.

When Wang walked past Torre before the eighth, Torre said, "What are you
doing, quitting?" Wang pointed to pitching coach Ron Guidry. A high pitch
count was the only reason why Wang didn't get to finish another gem.

Torre said he was tempted to leave Wang in, but that after topping 100
pitches for the second straight game, and in New York's sweltering heat,
enough was enough. Wang, as usual, didn't want to come out.

"He's got a fire in his belly, there's no question about it," Torre said.

Wang has now gone at least seven innings in 14 starts this season, by
far the highest on the Yankees' staff. He has won five straight starts
and is 13-4 with a 3.58 ERA on the season. Wang said this is the best
he's pitched in his career, and that it's been a lot of fun.

That is unless you're on the other team.

"A guy that pitches 95-plus with sink like that, you've got to tip your cap
sometimes," Toronto second baseman Aaron Hill said.

The Blue Jays threatened in the second inning when Wang uncharacteristically
walked three batters in one inning. But with the bases loaded and two outs,
Wang broke John McDonald's bat on the first pitch to get an easy ground out.

After the inning, Wang retired 17 of the next 20 batters he faced, 13 of
which on ground balls. Guidry said he simply told Wang to keep his weight
back and arm up to get better bite on his sinker.

The heat would seem to make things more difficult for any pitcher, but the
sweat-drenched Wang labored on.

"[It's] not bad," he said. "Taiwan is the same."

Wang got plenty of support behind him as every hitter in the lineup reached
base at least once and all but ninth-hitter Miguel Cairo got a hit. The
two through five hitters were a combined 11-for-22 with six RBIs. Bobby
Abreu logged a single and double in his second game in pinstripes, and
Craig Wilson was 2-for-4 in his debut.

But the Yankees were up only 1-0 heading into the sixth as Toronto starter
Ted Lilly was baffling despite a solo homer by Derek Jeter in the third.

Alex Rodriguez began chipping away at him in the sixth. Rodriguez hit a
shot to left field and thought he had a double from the start. But as he
rounded first with Tony Pena's approval, his teammates yelled "no" from
the dugout.

The throw beat Rodriguez by plenty -- and he started his slide much earlier
than one would think -- but as he came to the bag he had enough time to
pull back his leading left hand and swoop around with his right to get in
before the tag.

"You kind of feel like you're coming in without your homework and the
teachers calls your name," Rodriguez said. "I just got kind of lucky.
That was kind of a goofy slide anyway."

The double ignited a six-run rally featuring a Jorge Posada two-run homer
in the next at-bat and capped off by a two-run single by Rodriguez. After
hitting perhaps a season-low in a four-game series at Toronto not more than
two weeks ago, Rodriguez is 5-for-9 with four RBIs in the Yankees' first
two games of this series.

But while Rodriguez may be finding his stroke, it's Wang who has truly
broken onto the scene. Johnny Damon said Wang has been as good as ace Mike
Mussina during the past few weeks. Jeter felt he has proved more than that.

"When you talk about the top pitchers in the league, you have to put his
name up there," Jeter said. "He's pitching as well as anybody in baseball."

Ryan Mink is an associate reporter for MLB.com.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or
its clubs.

http://0rz.net/201F7

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推 jimcal:這位同學，op了喲 ~~
推 jason0925:PO文前請先爬文>"<....呵呵
推 tsorng:這篇內容不同吧?? "Not bad, Taiwan is the same"..夠簡短!
推 askamow:其實不是op  官網新聞一開始都只會有短版的
→ askamow:等個2、3小時候才會有像這篇這種長篇戰報
推 jimcal:sry 只有標題相同，內文的確不同，錯怪這位同學了:P
推 jason0925:內容是有補充了一些,不過有幾段都很雷同,會有"眼誤"
推 s489791150:題外話  從推文就知道這裡比王版的秩序好多了  汗"