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Yankees 12, Devil Rays 4
The Yankees Are Firing on All Cylinders
By JOE LAPOINTE
Published: September 13, 2006
The Yankees’ clubhouse before a game is usually a businesslike place,
with little music, laughter or loud talk. So Derek Jeter’s excited voice
merited attention after he saw Hideki Matsui in uniform yesterday a few
lockers to his right at Yankee Stadium.
“Hey, hey, hey — Mat-soo!” Jeter called to Matsui. “You play today?”
Matsui, who is from Japan, understood without help from his interpreter.
He nodded and smiled at Jeter, who nodded and smiled back.
And there was much to smile about later in Matsui’s first game since
he broke his left wrist on May 11. Matsui batted eighth as designated
hitter and went 4 for 4 — all singles — as the Yankees defeated the
Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 12-4.
“That’s amazing,” Bobby Abreu, the Yankees’ right fielder, said
of Matsui. “It’s a pleasure for me to play with him.”
Others may say the same about Abreu, whose performance was even more
productive than Matsui’s. Abreu drove in seven runs, six in the first
inning with a three-run home run and a three-run double.
After adding a sacrifice fly in the third inning, Abreu almost had a
grand slam in the fourth, but his high fly was caught near the
right-field wall. “Sometimes you don’t have seven R.B.I.’s in a week,”
Abreu said.
On a cool evening before 52,265 fans, the Yankees won their fourth
consecutive game and reduced their number to clinch the American League
East to nine. They lead the second-place Red Sox by 10 1/2 games.
Leading the Yankees on the mound was Mike Mussina (14-6), who started
for the second time since spending 15 days on the disabled list with a
strained right groin muscle. Mussina, who reported pain in his elbow
after pitching five innings at Kansas City on Sept. 5, worked six
and a third innings last night and gave up no runs, five hits and
no walks while striking out five.
“Physically, I felt good,” Mussina said. “It seems like a long
time since I won a game and a long time since I contributed to the
team.” His last victory was July 30.
Jeter, contending for the batting championship, had no hits in four
trips to the plate because he walked three times and was hit by a pitch.
Jeter began the game with a 21-game hitting streak, and his average
trailed only that of Joe Mauer of Minnesota, .350 to .346.
Jeter was replaced with a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning when
the Yankees had a 12-0 lead. Jeter’s hitting streak continued,
however, because he did not have an official at-bat. Manager Joe Torre
had apologized to Jeter in the dugout for forgetting about the streak
and taking him out.
After the game, Torre told Jeter that the streak survived. “I wasn’t
aware of it,” Jeter said. “It’s not something I sit around and
think about.
“I’m not close to DiMaggio,” Jeter said of Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game
hitting streak.
Abreu hit his first-inning home run off starter Tim Corcoran (4-8),
and the ball hit a sign on the front edge of the upper deck. Corcoran
gave up seven runs and retired only one batter, partly because of poor
fielding by his teammates. Abreu’s double was off Brian Stokes, the
first relief pitcher.
Abreu’s presence — and his Yankees batting average of .344 — illustrate
the depth of talent on the Yankees’ crowded and growing roster. Abreu,
a right fielder obtained in a trade from Philadelphia in July, effectively
replaced Gary Sheffield, who damaged a ligament and a tendon in his
left wrist in May.
Sheffield took batting practice on the field for the first time
yesterday and said he would soon be ready to play. If and when
Sheffield can play, it is likely that Torre will use him as a
designated hitter or, for the first time in his career, as a
first baseman.
Jason Giambi, who started at first last night after a second
cortisone shot in his sore left wrist, had one hit, a run-scoring
double in the third.
Before the game, Matsui expressed feelings of guilt over missing his
first games in his four-year Yankees career. “Starters have responsibility,”
he said. “Obviously, it wasn’t what I caused. It was an accident. But
the team depends on you. I felt bad.”
In the bottom of the eighth, with many of the fans already headed home,
Matsui got another warm ovation as he came to the plate. He walked with
a checked swing on a 3-2 pitch and was removed for a pinch-runner,
giving the fans one last chance to cheer him as he walked to the dugout.
INSIDE PITCH
Mariano Rivera, who has had pain near his right elbow, said yesterday
that he planned to throw on flat ground today and would try to work
bullpen sessions on consecutive days, perhaps as soon as Friday and
Saturday. “I’m going crazy and I’m driving my teammates crazy,”
Rivera said.
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(原來是Torre忘記Jeter的streak，把他換下去....)
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