[新聞] Yankees Taken Out In the Sixth

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NEW YORK - Joe Torre is rarely at a loss for words, especially when he sits
with the media before the start of a game. On Friday night, amongst several
other topics, both baseball and non-baseball related, Torre stressed the
importance of good pitching and keeping the game under control.
Returning home from a three-game road trip and sweep of the Texas Rangers,
Torre had every reason to believe the Yankees had turned a corner and put
their ugly losing streak behind them.

In the first of a four-game series against the Mariners at Yankee Stadium,
the Yankees hurlers were anything but in control and the loss to the Mariners
wasn't definitely pretty. The Yankees scored 11 runs, but they needed to
score 16.

Kei Igawa was clearly not the same guy who threw six scoreless innings of
two-hit ball in relief against the Red Sox last Saturday afternoon. The
Yankee offense even handed him a five-run lead when he took the mound in the
second, but the Japanese left-hander could not hang onto it. Igawa allowed
one run in the second - a solo home run to Kenji Johjima - two in the third
and three in the fourth before being removed in the fifth with an 8-6 lead
with two on and nobody out.

"The first inning was fine," Torre said of Igawa. "Then it was a matter of
lack of command. He didn't hit very good spots. He didn't make enough good
pitches. The start before last week when he came out of the bullpen, I was
curious tonight. I was looking forward to it then I saw him in the first
inning and he seemed fine, then they started hitting some balls hard and
that's just a lack of location.

"Five in the first, unless you can shut the other team down it isn't enough
in today's baseball. We can't expect to survive when you can't get people
out."

"My command was OK," Igawa said. "The overall result was bad. This is my
first year in Major League Baseball. Everything I do is new to me. For me,
it's a learning curve. I'm learning every day. "

A 30-minute fifth inning would seal the Yankees fate when Colter Bean
replaced Igawa. After allowing back-to-back walks off eight pitches, the
latter of which scored a run, Kenji Johjimi hit an RBI single to right and
Yuniesky Betancourt followed with a two-run double to right-center put the
Mariners ahead 10-8 and end Bean's night. With Scott Proctor and Kyle
Farnsworth resting in the bullpen and Luis Vizcaino on the mound, the
Mariners would score four more runs, marking an eight-run inning, the most
scored by a Yankee opponent since July 23 of 2006 when the Toronto Blue Jays
scored eight in the third inning of a 13-5 victory.

"This is as bad as it gets," Bean said. "Not fun. "No excuses. It was just
pretty bad. It was just one of those nights. You forget about it and move
on."

"He just couldn't find the plate," said Torre, "That was a big surprise
because he's been good for us. He's just been out there sporadically. You'd
like to be able to dismiss it. He's been a different pitcher than he was
previously for us both in spring training and when we brought him up a couple
times."

With Torre out of options, lefty specialist Mike Myers pitched four scoreless
innings - the most since a minor league start in the Marlins system in 1994 -
and allowed just four hits and one run, an RBI double to Richie Sexson in the
seventh. The Yankee offense would add three runs in the seventh but the
fifth-inning massacre caused too much damage.

A black cat must have run across the Yankee clubhouse because the Yankees
can't seem to solve their pitching woes. Just when they thought there was a
light at the end of the deep, dark tunnel, the organization reached into
their bag of tricks and pulled out Phil Hughes earlier than they had
anticipated, only to have their top pitching prospect pull his hamstring
six-plus innings into a no-hitter Tuesday night in Texas. Jeff Kartens will
spend the next six week in Tampa rehabbing a fractured right fibula and now
Carl Pavano may undergo Tommy John surgery that will surely sideline him for
the remainder of the season. They're falling and they're falling fast.

Fortunately for the Yankees, they have a healthy Chien-Ming Wang who will
take the mound Saturday afternoon and try to stop his team from falling into
another losing streak.

Wang, perhaps the quietest player in the clubhouse, insists he doesn't feel
any extra pressure to hold the pitching staff together. In fact, the
Taiwanese right-hander does not consider himself the Ace of the staff and
prefers to have the finger pointed at veterans Mike Mussina and Andy Pettitte
when it comes to leadership. Looking back, Wang now realizes why he took his
time returning from a hamstring pull that sidelined him for the first month
of the season.

"I'm not the Ace. Those guys are," said Wang, pointing to Mussina and
Pettitte. "I just want to go out there and do my job, pitch well and win
games. I want to go seven or eight inning. I want to go deep."

"We just need to make sure we control the game a lot better than we did
tonight," Torre said.

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推 docker:謙虛的小王 ^^
推 jimcarry1125:Kei Igawa was clearly not the same guy..害我噴飯
推 miniko:要learning去3A learning吧...
推 appshjkli:其實我也覺得.NPB到MLB是要有一段適應期的.看看隔壁的
→ appshjkli:Beckett自國聯到美聯.也是有一段時間.來適應不同處
→ appshjkli:可是yankees自日本花大錢簽下Igawa.為的不就是需要
→ appshjkli:即戰力.不適應的話就要想辦法.太多人都是如此
推 keok:這讓我想到井川之前那場對紅襪的好投...PAPI說那場只是他們沒
→ keok:打好，而不是井川投的好...
推 knives:之前那一場可能是迴光反照吧XD
推 disasterD:之前老爹的評論似乎不是豪語？
推 archi:學中職洋將嗎？  畢業考大爆發!!?  XD
推 Alexboo:老爹八逋啊  那一場igawa球丟的非常好啊
推 joe123:我們沒打好（因為宅男投太好了）