Humble Santana still the same after no-no By Anthony Castrovince -- CLEVELAND -- He was born Johan Ramon Santana. He changed his name in 2003 to avoid confusion with the Johan Santana who was just starting to collect Cy Young votes with the Twins. 他出生时的姓名是 Johan Ramon Santana。 2003 年他改了名字，以避免跟那个开始大放异彩的双城名投撞名。 Ervin Santana, then an Angels prospect toiling away in Class A ball, wanted to create his own identity. You could say, eight years later, that he certainly made a name for himself on a splendid Wednesday afternoon here at Progressive Field, where he tossed the 229th no-hitter of the modern era and the first by an Angels pitcher in nearly three decades. 那时他还不过是个在 1A 打拼的球员，但他想要闯出自己的名号。 八年之後，当他在 Progressive Field 投出现代第 229 次无安打後， (同时也是 1984 年 Mike Witt 以後本队第一人完成此纪录) 他的确算是办到了。 But in the wake of his outstanding outing against the Indians in a 3-1 victory, Santana, even when surrounded by champagne bottles chilling in Dubble Bubble buckets by his locker, didn't have a celebratory air about him. He was happy, certainly, but he also seemed to wear a reflective layer just below the surface. One that revealed itself when he used several of the few words he spoke at his postgame news conference to mention a lost family member. 但是在他的衣柜被香槟堆满的同时，他似乎并没有太嗨。 在赛後访问时，他稍微提到他失去了一位家人。 "I just want to dedicate this no-hitter," he said, "to my cousin, who just passed away." The cousin's name, Santana revealed later, was Ruben. But that was all Santana would share, his eyes welling up when the topic was broached. 他以今天的好表现纪念过世的表兄弟 Ruben， 但在访谈到这段时，他不愿意多说，眼眶也泛红了。 That's the side of Santana you don't necessarily see when he's pumping the strike zone with fastballs and making hitters unsuccessfully lunge at his slider. He's a jokester one moment, a weeper the next and a proud pitcher, through and through. 他展现了跟刚刚还在宰制打者时完全不同的一面。 "Ervin's very humble," pitching coach Mike Butcher said. "He's emotional, but in a good way. He truly appreciates the game of baseball and works extremely hard at it." The work has sometimes been uphill for Santana in what has been a strange season. The 6-8 record, any Angels member will argue, is no indication of the way he's pitched, and manager Mike Scioscia has spent the last two months spreading word that Santana has been pitching much better than his numbers indicate. 投教表示: 他是个谦逊的人，有时情绪化了点，但并不是坏事。 他对球赛付出了非常多的努力。 队上所有的人--尤其说瞎--都说，他今年的胜败纪录 (6-8) 不能代表他投的不好。 Consider what transpired here to be proof positive. The Indians had two baserunners against Santana because of shortstop Erick Aybar's first-inning error that allowed leadoff man Ezequiel Carrera to reach and Santana's eighth-inning walk of Lonnie Chisenhall that got Aybar off the hook before anybody could talk about him blowing a perfect game. 今天印地安人只有两名跑者上垒， 在第八局保送之後，Aybar 才解套，没有因为他首局的失误葬送掉一场 PG。 This will go down as the game's first non-shutout no-hitter since Houston's Darryl Kile tossed one against the Mets on Sept. 8, 1993, but blame catcher Bobby Wilson's passed ball for that distinction (and Scioscia razzed Wilson about it plenty postgame). Santana attacked a toothless Tribe offense with two pitches that he commanded wonderfully, erasing any lingering demons over what transpired in this very building in his Major League debut. 这场无安打但非完封的比赛是 1993 年 Darryl Kyle 之後第一次， 还要感谢捕手 Bobby Wilson 的捕逸造成掉分。(赛後捕手被说瞎酸爆) Santana 今天对印地安人的胜投也是生涯第一场， 算是消除了他大联盟首战的阴霾。(说瞎:还要讲那场球阿?) (记者:讲嘛) "Do we have to talk about that one?" Scioscia said. Yes, yes, let's talk about it. It was May 17, 2005. Santana was 22, only two years into his new name. More to the point, he was only 19 1/3 innings into his Triple-A career when the Angels, dealing with Kelvim Escobar's elbow issues, called him up and tossed him out there against the Tribe. The first four batters went like this: triple, double, single, home run. The kid was about five minutes into the Majors, and he'd already given up the cycle. 2005 年 5 月 17 号， Santana 才在 3A 投了 19.1 局就因为 Ace 挂伤号上来顶替面对印地安人， 那场球前四名他面对的打者分别打出了 3B, 2B, 1B, HR。 才上大联盟没几分钟，他已经完成了完全打击。 "He was," said teammate Maicer Izturis, who was on the Angels' bench that day and at third for the no-no, "so young." 当天在板凳上目睹了这场球的 Maicer 表示: 他只是个孩子阿。 Young and unpolished. But Scioscia remembered how well and how quickly Santana recovered from that dubious debut. His next start, after all, was a complete-game shutout of the White Sox. 但这孩子恢复的可快了，在下一场对白袜马上投出完封胜。 "He used that first start here in Cleveland as a stepping board," Scioscia said. "It shows that he adapts." 说瞎表示: 他很能适应。 The adaptations have been necessary quite often in Santana's inconsistent career. He won 28 games over his first two seasons, then was 7-14 with a 5.76 ERA in 2007. In '08, he looked like the Angels' ascending ace, winning 16 games in 32 starts and finishing sixth in the Cy Young voting. But he followed that up with an 8-8 record and a 5.03 ERA in '09. Last year, he was 17-10 with a 3.92 ERA; this season, he's 6-8 with a 3.47 ERA, which shows you how fluky the won-loss totals can be. 但他後来的生涯就一直需要适应了。 他常常一下投的像 True Ace，一下像个 3A 投手。 "Last year, he won 17 games, and he's pitching every bit as good or better than he did last year," Butcher said. "There's been a little bit more focus on his part. He's a little bit more deceptive right now. It's just focus, it's just one pitch at a time. He's just doing a tremendous job. He was fun to watch today." 投教表示: 给他一个赞。 Other than relaying that he and Wilson were on the "same page" all afternoon, Santana had surprisingly little to say about his accomplishment. Or maybe that's not so surprising, if you know how humble and low-key he can be. Even when asked if this achievement offers him the kind of distinction he sought when he changed his name (hey, Johan's never tossed a no-no), Santana wasn't so sure. 但他本人依旧十分低调，除了说他今天跟捕手很来电之外， 并没有夸耀些什麽。 即使被问到，今天的表现是否达到了他当初改名时想达成的目标时， (山大王精彩的生涯中尚无 no-hitter) 他也不是那麽确定。 "Maybe," he said. "Maybe not." Definitely. "也许吧，也许不会" 他说， 但他 100% 已经达成了。 -- --

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