[新聞] Yankee Hitters Continue Disappearing Act in Atlanta

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Yankee Hitters Continue Disappearing Act in Atlanta
By TYLER KEPNER
Published: June 23, 2009

ATLANTA —

The Yankees are in a tailspin. They look eager to return to the comfort of
the American League and desperate for their highest-paid player to stop
performing at his worst. Another National League team stifled the Yankees
on Tuesday night, when the Atlanta Braves took a 4-0 victory at Turner Field.


Alex Rodriguez started for just the second time in five days, but still
looked rundown. A single skipped by him to start a three-run rally, and
he went 0 for 4, extending his slump to 1 for 23.

“I thought he had some good swings tonight,” Manager Joe Girardi said.
“There were no results. It’s taking him a little time. He’s been in a
funk. But he’s going to come out of it, too. History’s on his side. He’s
too good of a hitter.”

With Rodriguez batting .143 in June, the Yankees have dropped 9 of their
last 13 to tumble from a one-game lead in the A.L. East to a five-game
deficit behind the Boston Red Sox. They are 2-5 against Washington,
Florida and Atlanta, the three bottom teams in the National League East.

Most discouraging, perhaps, is the continued disappearance of the Yankees’
hitters. They were humbled by yet another unfamiliar pitcher, the rookie
Tommy Hanson, and went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position. Jorge
Posada struck out all four times up.

Derek Jeter said: “We didn’t hit, we haven’t hit, that’s why we’ve been
losing. It’s nothing deeper than that.”

The Braves scored three runs with two out in the third against
Chien-Ming Wang, who fell to 0-6 but probably deserved better. He was not
as sharp as Phil Hughes, who throttled the Braves for two innings of relief,
but Girardi said Wang would keep his spot in the rotation.

Wang has worked five innings and allowed three runs in each of his last
two starts, though he threw only 62 pitches this time. Last Wednesday
against the Nationals, he labored for 91.

Wang was cruising in the third inning Tuesday when Yunel Escobar bounced
a hard single just to the left of Rodriguez, who had hip surgery in March.
It was not an easy play, but it is the kind he would have made in the past.
This time, he could not snare it.

“I took a dive at it,” Rodriguez said. “The last few days, I’ve been
feeling much better with my body. I feel like I’m moving much better. He
hit it hard, I dove. It got through.”

The hit set in motion the three-run burst. Escobar stole second and went
to third when Posada threw the ball into center field from his knees for
an error. Chipper Jones walked, then Brian McCann lifted a low pitch to
center for a run-scoring double.

Up next was Garret Anderson, the former Angel who is still picking on the
Yankees. Anderson took another low pitch and drove it to the gap in
right-center for a two-run double to make it 3-0.

“The first was a good pitch,” Wang said, referring to McCann’s double.
“The second one cut down the middle and low.”

Wang retired seven of the next eight hitters and was due up third in the
sixth inning. If there had been two outs, Girardi said, he would have let
Wang bat. Instead, Brett Gardner singled with one out, and Girardi lifted
Wang for a pinch-hitter, Hideki Matsui.

吉總說如果是兩出局的話，那第六局不會換代打就讓王打，
但Gardner安打上壘，所以在換代打。

Matsui walked to chase Hanson, but Peter Moylan got Jeter to bounce into
his fourth double play in four games, ending the inning. The Yankees had
no hits the rest of the night.

In their last nine games, the Yankees faced eight starters they had never
faced before. Those pitchers have a combined earned run average of 2.54,
and only one allowed more than three earned runs against the Yankees.
The slide may continue Wednesday, when the Yankees face Kenshin Kawakami,
a rookie right-hander from Japan.

Girardi said he was pleased with the effort — 9 or 10 players took early
hitting Tuesday — but added that he might change the lineup and had already
addressed the team.

“We’ve had some discussions with them about fight,” Girardi said.
“You’ve got to fight your way out of this. That’s the only thing you
can do, because nobody’s going to feel sorry for you.”

INSIDE PITCH

C. C. Sabathia, who left his last start with left biceps tendinitis, said
he would throw about 25 pitches in the bullpen Wednesday instead of his
usual 45. Sabathia has not played catch since leaving Sunday’s game in
the second inning, but he said he was confident he would start Friday against
the Mets. “I feel like I’m going to feel fine tomorrow,” Sabathia said. ...

Infielder Cody Ransom is expected to join the Yankees on Wednesday after
60 days on the disabled list with a strained quadriceps. “He could help us
a lot,” Joe Girardi said. ...

The Yankees’ protest of Sunday’s loss to the Florida Marlins was denied
by Bob DuPuy, baseball’s president and chief operating officer, who did
not cite a reason. ...

Johnny Damon was out of the lineup again because of lingering soreness in
his right calf. He pinch-hit in the ninth inning and walked. ...

Derek Jeter overtook Tampa Bay’s Evan Longoria for the A.L. lead in
All-Star votes. Mark Teixeira also crept ahead of Boston’s Kevin Youkilis
for the lead at first base. Final results will be announced July 5.

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推 Yenshing:所以都是Gardner的錯  (誤
推 Kael:吉總出來說明囉.住海邊的某J快出反駁
→ Yanrei:腿弟：上壘也算我的錯喔！？
推 djviva:噗~ 我剛好也剛翻譯完這篇...
→ awhat:inside pitch怎麼清一色都是壞消息......
推 joveryant:我只是想噓你耶  去爬文看我有沒有怪教練乖噢
推 Sechslee:可憐
推 Kael:真的可憐 只剩那能噓
→ joveryant:嗯 你也不遑多讓
→ Minamii:小王也是很衰...明明投的不差...以前搞不好也就是樣樣而已
→ Minamii:瘋狂連敗之下還是要被拿來跟Hughes比
推 Minamii:希望戰績快點好起來..不然A-Rod跟小王兩個會被酸到明年
推 Kael:會被酸的是隊友吧，現在連洋基贏都是沾王爸爸喜氣
推 argoth:在這裡似乎不是這樣( ￣ c￣)y▂ξ
推 edisoncool:kael你不酸全身會癢是不是?
推 Minamii:ptt有啥影響力...國外媒體對球迷跟球隊才有影響力
→ Minamii:不想看到喜歡的球員上場被噓下場被砲轟 變成壓力的出口
推 uponupon:完全是Gardner對王建民仍存在不信任(或不安)感
推 Cowyau:Gardner:上壘也中槍....
推 midstrong:可能的好消息就是berroa會滾蛋了