※ [本文转录自 NY-Yankees 看板] 作者: fch010720 (sixpence) 站内: NY-Yankees 标题: Re: [外电] Yanks Waiting for Damon to Also Have … 时间: Sat Jul 21 05:19:29 2007 ※ 引述《logicmana (就是要看棒球)》之铭言： : http://0rz.tw/432Nz : Yanks Waiting for Damon to Also Have a Turnaround : By TYLER KEPNER : Published: July 20, 2007 : Johnny Damon and Kevin Long were roommates at Class AA Wichita in 1995. Damon h : it .343 and was called up to the Kansas City Royals that summer. He has been in : the majors ever since. 大门和Kevin Long是在95年时AA Wichita的队友，那时大门打击率 .343，Royals在夏天 时将他升上了大联盟，从那时起他就一直都待在大联盟了。 : In that time, Damon said, he has probably endured many hitless streaks. But his : average has rarely looked as feeble as it does now, .233, after the Yankees’ : 3-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays in a mundane matinee at Yankee Stadium yester : day. Damon is 0 for 17 in his last five games. 大门说道，那时他大概也经历了不少打不出安打的时候，但他的打击率几乎没有像现在一 样的低迷，在昨天洋基3-2主场败给蓝鸟後，他的打率只有2成33。在近五场比赛的17个打 数，他一支也没打出来。 : “I can tell you one thing: I’ve never seen him work so hard,” said Long, who : is now the Yankees’ hitting coach. “He’s probably taken more swings in the : last 10 days than I’ve seen him take when I’ve ever been around him. : “He’s working at it. He’s concerned. We want to turn this thing around as qu : ick as possible. He knows we’ve got a bunch of guys swinging the bats well rig : ht now, and he’d like to join the party.” 「我可以告诉你：我从未看他练习得这麽勤」洋基打教Long说道，「他在过去十天练习挥 击的次数，大概比我以前看到的全部加起来还要多」 「他正在努力改善，他自己也很在意。我们想要把状况尽快的调整回来。他知道最近很多 人打击状况都很好，他也想和大家一样」 : There was not much to celebrate in the Bronx yesterday. The Yankees scored twic : e in the first inning and Toronto scored three times against Chien-Ming Wang in : the seventh. Neither team advanced a runner to third in any other inning. : The Yankees missed a chance for a sweep, but they still won the series, three g : ames to one, for their fourth series victory in a row. “If we continue to win : series, then we’re in pretty good shape,” Manager Joe Torre said. Bronx昨天并没有什麽可以庆祝的。洋基首局便二度得分，但多伦多也在七局时从小王手 中拿下三分。两队除了这两局外，便没有人上过三垒。 洋基失去了清盘的机会，但他们仍拿下了这个系列赛：三胜一败。而这也是他们连续拿下 的第四个系列赛。「如果我们每个系列都能拿下的话，我们希望就很大了」教头Torre这 麽说道。 : Even in losing, Damon showed a glimpse of why the Yankees gave him a four-year, : $52 million contract before last season. He worked an eight-pitch walk against : Dustin McGowan to lead off the bottom of the first. When he reached on an erro : r in the fifth, a wild pickoff throw moved him into scoring position. 即使是输球的时候，大门还是让人稍稍看到为什麽洋基会给他4年52m的合约。在第一局时 ，他等了八球让McGowan保送了他。当他五局因失误上垒时，一个牵制暴传又让他上了得 分位置。 : Damon has not lost his strike zone judgment, and he is still a threat to run. T : he back, calf and rib cage injuries that bothered him in the first half are gon : e, he said. Damon is simply slumping, and he says he is not sure why. 大门并没有失去他对好球带的判断力，而且他的跑垒仍很有威胁性。他说在上半季困扰着 他的背、小腿、和肋骨伤已经好了。大门只是陷入了低潮，但他自己也不知道是为什麽。 : “My swing feels great, I’m feeling comfortable at the plate,” he said. “Unf : ortunately, I’m just not getting the job done, and I definitely need to. This : team is so much better when I get going.” 他说道：「我挥击的感觉很好，在垒上也不会不舒服。不幸的是，我就是没法完成任务， 但我非得完成不行。当我状况好时，这只队伍会变得更好」 : In his work with Long — sometimes three separate sessions of pregame batting p : ractice — Damon has concentrated on straightening his back foot, which had bee : n turned in, causing him to shift his weight forward too soon. 当Long陪他一起练习时，(有时在赛前练习，他便排了三个时段)，大门会专注在伸直他的 後脚，因为之前他的後脚会往向内，让他的重心过早前移。 : Keeping his weight back will, in theory, give Damon more time to see pitches an : d make it easier to use his legs to drive the ball. Long and the bench coach, D : on Mattingly, have seen results before games. 理论上，保持重心在後会使大门看清球路，让他可以用腿的力量把球击出。Long和板凳教 练Don Mattingly在比赛之前，的确看到这些改善的成果。 : “Donnie and I both saw it in B.P.,” Long said. “We said, Wow, the ball’s ju : mping; he’s hitting the ball out of the park. He just needs one good game and : he’ll be right back on track. I truly believe that, because physically he’s i : n pretty good shape.” Long说道：「Donnie和我在他练习时都有看到，被击出的球有高度(?)，甚至被打到场外 。我真的相信他只需要一场好比赛，就能回到轨道上了，因为就身体来说，他现在的状况 是很好的。」 : Although Damon spoke hopefully last weekend of someday playing for Tampa Bay, h : e still seems comfortable with the Yankees and has mostly maintained his sunny : outlook. The team is winning despite his struggles, and, he said, “There are m : uch worse things in life than hitting .235.” 虽然大门在上周末说道，希望有天能在坦帕湾打球，但他现在在洋基还算自在，他也仍保 持着阳光的形象。尽管他的低潮，队上现在却己逐渐回温。他说「世上还有许多比 .235 打击率更糟的事 」 : But it is frustrating, he acknowledged, to be unable to drive pitches the way h : e did just last season, when he had a .482 slugging percentage with a career-hi : gh 24 home runs. This season, Damon has a .323 slugging percentage and five hom : ers. 他承认，不能像去年一样打出安打，的确很令人挫折。上一季他有4成82的长打率、24发 HR。现在他却只有3成23的长打率和5个HR : After walking in the first and scoring on Bobby Abreu’s two-run double, Damon : struck out, reached on an error and flied to right. The flyout, against Casey J : anssen to lead off the eighth, was especially discouraging. : “I had a pitch that last year probably would have been in the upper deck,” Da : mon said. “I was just a tad too late on it. I’m not sure how hard the pitch w : as, 90 miles per hour. Normally, that ball is very easy to hit for me.” 在第一局被保送，接着靠Abreu的二垒打得分後，大门接下来有一次三振，一次靠失误上 垒，一次右外飞球。那个被Casey接杀的右外飞球特别的令人失望。 「去年的话，这一球大概会被我打到外野观众席去」大门说道，「但我那时就是晚了那麽 一点。我不确定球有多快，大概时速90m吧，通常那对我来说，是很好打的球的」 : As a team, the Yankees managed only five hits — one more than Toronto had in t : he seventh against Wang. After Matt Stairs doubled to lead off the seventh and : Vernon Wells followed with an infield hit, Frank Thomas drove in a run with a g : round out off Wang’s left ankle. Wang said he was not affected, and catcher Wi : l Nieves said his sinker to the next hitter, Aaron Hill, was in the right spot. : But Hill smashed it to center for a game-tying triple, and Gregg Zaun followed : with a bouncer up the middle for the go-ahead run. 昨天洋基全队也只有五个安打，比蓝鸟七局对小王时还多了一支。在Matt Stairs开局便 打出二垒安打後，Vernon Wells接着打了个内野安，Frank Thomas靠着一个击中小王左踝 的滚球打回了一分。小王说他没有被影响到，而Wil Nieves 说面对下个打者Aaron Hill 时，他的伸卡也的确投到了该投的位置。 但Hill用力地击出了一只中外野三垒打，送回了追平分。Gregg Zaun又在补上了一个中间 滚地安打使得比数超前。 : When reporters gathered around Damon after the game, he did not question why he : would be a story line. But he also does not question his ability. : “I still feel like I’m the guy that people worry about,” Damon said, meaning : other teams, not his own. 当记者在赛後围绕着大门时，他并没有质疑记者，为何自己会变成报导的重心，但他同样 也没有怀疑自己的能力 大门说道：「我觉得自己仍是他们需要担心的对象」，而这里的「他们」，指的是其他队 伍，而不是他自己。 -- 看起来他觉得伤势不是影向他表现的原因，他也在努力地练习。 只希望他能早日回复昔日的水准罗… --

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