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The Yankees’ Game 1 Pitcher? Wang. The Lineup? All Stars.

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內容~就是這些囉~
There were 20 uniformed players on the field at Yankee Stadium
for the national anthem last night. Eleven were All-Stars
from the Staten Island team that played in the Little League
World Series last month. Eight were Yankees, a
ll current or former All-Stars.

The exception was Chien-Ming Wang, the starting pitcher,
who finished his first full major league season with
a 16-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. (季初誰想得到啊~)
Wang has never made the All-Star team, but the Yankees
are counting on him heavily.

Wang’s next start will come Tuesday in the opener
of the American League division series,
with a potentially devastating lineup behind him.
Manager Joe Torre named Wang the Game 1 starter
before the game, and he said Mike Mussina and
Randy Johnson would follow.

The lineup, Torre conceded, will take longer to
become definite. But last night, Torre tried
an order so potent that the No. 9 hitter,
Robinson Cano, is second in the American League in hitting.

“It’s a lineup that you dream of,” said Johnny Damon,
who hit one of the Yankees’ five homers.
"You can go up and down the lineup,
and everyone’s an All-Star. Wow.
I haven’t seen a lineup like this. It’s pretty special.”

The return of Jason Giambi made the lineup whole.
Giambi had missed a week to rest his aching left wrist,
and he ripped a two-run homer down the
right-field line in his first at-bat and drove in four runs.

The home run was Giambi’s first since Aug. 20,
just before his injury. He taped the wrist
last night to limit movement, and the results were encouraging.

“I couldn’t have asked for a better day to come back,” Giambi said.

Jorge Posada, the No. 8 hitter, chased Kris Benson
from the game with a three-run homer in the third inning.
Damon built on his career high in homers
when he hit his 24th in the fourth.

When asked if this was his deepest lineup ever,
Torre, who has won four titles with the Yankees, said it was.

“It’s pretty darn good right now,” Torre said.
“We have a guy named Bernie Williams sitting on the bench.
We have Melky Cabrera, who’s not in the lineup.
We have some pleasant problems to solve before next Tuesday.”

The makeup of the rotation was never in much doubt,
especially after Johnson decided to skip his final start —
scheduled for tonight — because of back spasms.

Because Johnson will take extra time to rest,
he will start the third game, on the road,
where he was 10-5 this season.
Torre explained that Wang and Mussina pitched
better at home, where the Yankees will play
for the first two games.
Wang is 11-3 at home, and Mussina is 8-2.

Wang, who is 19-6 over all, has been
the Yankees’ best starter and is tied with
Minnesota’s Johan Santana for the major league
lead in victories. He pitched well in the
division series last season,
despite losing his start in Game 2.

The only possible concern for the Yankees
would seem to be the blisters on Wang’s fingers,
the result of throwing his signature pitch, the sinker.
Wang pushes off the seams of the ball with his
index and middle fingers, creating the blisters,
and after the game last night, he had a small Band-Aid
covering the tip of his middle finger.小王中指受傷啦~

Wang said he had done this the past three starts
and was not worried. As for the Game 1 assignment,
he said he would “maybe get a little bit nervous,”(我們都很緊張)
but he also said that he was excited.(我們也很興奮)

Wang and Cano represent an important change in the Yankees’
makeup. Their promotions early last season helped
revive the Yankees after a listless start.
Both have performed better than the Yankees
first expected, showing talent and poise.哥倆好，都這麼厲害~

Cano’s two-run homer into the upper deck
in the sixth inning gave him 50 runs batted
in since coming off the disabled list Aug. 8.
No major leaguer has more since then.
Cano went 1 for 3, keeping his average
at .343, 7 points behind Joe Mauer of the Twins.

That kind of production is hard to hide in the
No. 9 spot, and Torre said it might not be permanent.
In a scouting meeting Tuesday, Torre told the team
that the lineup was still a work in progress.

“The roster probably won’t take until Monday to decide,
but the lineup probably will,” Torre said.
“I told the players, ‘We have a lot of talented
players here, and I don’t know what the lineup will be;
just understand that.’ ”

The first performance of this version —
with Williams and Cabrera on the bench and
Gary Sheffield at first base —
could not have been much better.
The Yankees set a season high in
homers while collecting 18 hits.

Wang lasted six innings, allowing 10 hits and 4 runs.
Mariano Rivera relieved him with a scoreless seventh,
his third shutout inning since returning to action last Friday.

Rivera missed the first three weeks of September
with a muscle strain near his right elbow.
But he has felt fine and pitched effectively since returning,
a comforting sign for a confident team.

INSIDE PITCH

With a crowd of 53,040, the Yankees exceeded four million fans
for the second consecutive season.
The only other major league team to do that
was the Toronto Blue Jays in 1991 and 1992. ...Rob Thomson,
the Yankees’ special-assignment instructor,
coached first base last night in place of Tony Pena,
who learned before the game that his father had died.


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→ chrislux:唯一不是ALL STAR就是小王了
推 ELF007:The NYY  Lineup? All Stars.........
→ ELF007:Now what the hell are you waitin for!!!!!
推 akujiki:All stars打線XXD   野外強暴部隊,昨天才剛大暴金鶯XXD
推 Makubex82:今天再爆一場就能看的出穩了
推 cornershop:還是留點體力別太爆，嚇到人就好了~投降輸一半? XD
推 fizeau:這個標題是有對應性的；把pitching staff裡的Wang比作打線
→ fizeau:裡的All-star陣容
推 fizeau:意思就是都讓人很放心
推 lunaluna:同意樓上
推 cornershop:對應的投打實力~完全無法對應的薪資比例~叫作"大驚喜"