[新聞] Rodriguez Says ‘Ha,’ but Jays Aren’t Laughing

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Yankees 10, Blue Jays 5
Rodriguez Says ‘Ha,’ but Jays Aren’t Laughing

from nytimes.com
By TYLER KEPNER
Published: May 31, 2007
TORONTO, May 30 — Somehow or other, Alex Rodriguez has said, the game always
comes down to him. That is an exaggeration, of course, but it seemed
inevitable on Wednesday.

Rodriguez’s day at the ballpark began with a refusal to answer questions
about his personal life, which had been splashed on the front of The New York
Post. It ended with the assertion that has dogged him for four years in
pinstripes: that he does not handle himself as a Yankee should.

The Yankees were leading the Toronto Blue Jays by two runs in an eventual
10-5 victory when Jorge Posada lifted a lazy fly ball to third base with two
outs in the top of the ninth inning. Third baseman Howie Clark camped under
it, but he backed off just after Rodriguez ran slowly past him.

Rodriguez said he shouted “Ha” as he passed Clark, who was fooled into
thinking that the shortstop, John McDonald, had called for the ball. When
Clark backed away, the ball dropped safely onto the turf for a run-scoring
single.

The Blue Jays were incensed, with umpires restraining McDonald from charging
at Rodriguez. John Gibbons, the Blue Jays’ manager, had words with
Rodriguez, who smiled as he stood on third base. Jason Giambi singled in two
more runs to make it a rout.

“I haven’t been in the game that long,” said Gibbons, who was playing in
the majors when Rodriguez was 8 years old. “Maybe I’m naive. But, to me, it
’s bush league. One thing, to everybody in this business, you always look at
the Yankees and they do things right. They play hard, class operation, that’
s what the Yanks are known for. That’s not Yankee baseball.”

Rodriguez said he hears opposing players shouting at him on foul balls near
the dugout three or four times a week. He did not admit to intentionally
distracting Clark — “I don’t know what my intention was,” he said — but
he pointed out that the Blue Jays had made a heady play in stealing home on
Tuesday.

Rodriguez said he was simply trying to win. “We’re desperate,” he said. “
We haven’t won a game in a little bit now. We won the game.”

It was the Yankees’ first victory in a week, and it snapped a five-game
losing streak. They remain tied for last place, and they will enter this
weekend’s series at Boston trailing the Red Sox by 13 ? games in the
American League East.

“This lifted a real cloud off us, especially with the off day tomorrow,”
 Manager Joe Torre said. “To have to carry that through the off day and into
Boston would have been difficult. Hopefully, with the way we have our
pitching lined up, we can start competing and have some good results.”

Robinson Cano went 4 for 4 with three doubles Wednesday, and Mariano Rivera
converted on his first save opportunity since May 3. Tyler Clippard wobbled
through five innings for the victory, walking five and throwing 98 pitches,
and Torre did not commit to leaving him in the rotation.

“We know he’s probably not quite ready,” Torre said, “but he doesn’t
stop competing. He works at it out there. He doesn’t stop coming at you,
which is pretty impressive for a kid who’s 22 years old.”

Clippard allowed three runs but made the Yankees’ first-inning outburst
stand up. Johnny Damon led off with a homer, later adding a single for his
2,000th career hit. The Yankees chased the rookie Jesse Litsch, who got just
two outs and allowed five runs in the first inning.

It was 6-5 when Rivera bailed out an erratic Kyle Farnsworth with two outs
and two on in the eighth. Lyle Overbay shattered his bat on a grounder to
first to end that inning, and the Blue Jays went down in order in the ninth.
Of his cutter, Rivera said, “It was moving, yes it was.”

Rodriguez singled in the ninth to make it 7-5, and his verbal interference
with Clark allowed the Yankees to pile on. The third base coach, Larry Bowa,
said that Rodriguez did not cross a line of good sportsmanship.

“If you say, ‘I got it,’ I think that’s very unacceptable,” Bowa said. “
He didn’t say, ‘I got it.’ He said, ‘Hey, hey.’ They parted like the Red
Sea.”

Gibbons said he told Rodriguez he thought it was a bush league play, which
Bowa also heard. But Rodriguez claimed not to hear anything that Gibbons or
McDonald said, and not to care, either.

“I could care less,” Rodriguez said. “They have their opinions. We’re
looking not to get swept. It really didn’t make a difference. Mo shut them
down in the ninth.”

In a season that seems to get weirder every day, that, at least, was a
comforting feeling for the Yankees.

INSIDE PITCH

A second magnetic resonance imaging exam on Phil Hughes’s left ankle
revealed a Grade III sprain, indicating a torn ligament. Hughes will not be
allowed to throw off a mound for about six more weeks, though General Manager
Brian Cashman said the Yankees have ruled out surgery. “He can walk on it,
and it doesn’t look all that bad,” Cashman said. “But it is what it is.
They’ve got him in a boot. He’s been throwing with a boot on it. But it’s
going to push him back, because he’s not going to be able to throw off a
mound.” Cashman said Hughes’s hamstring was almost fully healed when he
injured the ankle doing conditioning drills last Friday. Hughes’s timetable
would make it unlikely that he could return before August. ... Joe Torre
exchanged e-mail messages with Roger Clemens, and Clemens told Torre he was
looking forward to starting against the White Sox on Monday in Chicago. ...
Kyle Farnsworth has just two 1-2-3 innings in 22 games this season.

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→ leddy:似乎真是為了那個盜本壘,亂喊一陣,沒想到真被干擾
→ leddy:farns 22場球才兩次1-2-3inning
※ 編輯: leddy           來自: 220.132.198.21       (05/31 23:07)
推 dnndn:所以應該是3壘手自己漏接啦**ˋ（￣▽￣）ˊ**
推 kevin78224:因為有麥當勞 所以三壘手肚子餓了
推 krara:簡單的說，我們又多一個世仇系列啦。
→ krara:啊，突然想起今年A-Rod二個爭議性play，好像打者都是Posada
推 lee281114:第一次是他上二壘推人那次嗎?
推 krara:嗯，是的，還是我記錯了@@
推 saisai60:沒記錯
→ saisai60:就是鐵捕@"@
→ krara:回想一下Posada有點無辜的臉XD
推 crazyman7011:三壘手明明就差很遠..判斷有問題愛牽拖
推 saisai60:MLB 裝好炸彈了@"@
推 kimania:標題下的很妙XD
推 jurassic:真的很妙 滿幽默的XD
推 ckcson:那下次不要大喊,來唱歌好了~ "哈哈哈哈哈哈哈 哈哈哈哈哈"~
→ ckcson:........(大笑之歌)...
→ krara:推大笑之歌XD
推 voltafil:又看重播 其實之前jeter衝二壘就有點小動作阻止DP了
推 HIKARI900766:可以神一下A-Rod二個爭議性play嗎??
推 lee281114:第一個爭議球請至MLB版20846觀看
→ lee281114:嗯  是10846
推 cbshu:Jeter那個滑壘是合理的範圍  上次Cairo的比較誇張…