http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091008&content_id=7396786&vkey=news_ la&fext=.jsp&c_id=la LOS ANGELES -- From depths of rejection to heights of acceptance, Dodgers pitcher Vicente Padilla is on the verge of turning a forgettable year into one to remember. The one-time Rangers castoff will start the biggest game of his career on Saturday, when he takes the hill for Game 3 of the National League Division Series against the Cardinals in St. Louis with his team up 2-0 in the best-of-five series. 帕迪拉(Padilla)本季像洗三温暖，从被别队踢出门到在LA被大家接受，他很感激目前 的这一切。而美国时间周六可能是他报答道奇的好机会，也是他生涯最重要的一战。 "This is a second life that I have been given, and I'm grateful for it," Padilla said. "I'm going to do my best [Saturday]. We'll hope for a little luck and see what happens." Nobody could have predicted what has happened to him so far this season. The right-handed pitcher was released by Texas in early August because the club felt he no longer fit in. The Dodgers picked him up 10 days later for the prorated portion of the minimum salary, about $100,000. 帕迪拉说，他像是被给予了新生命。今年他被游骑兵释出後10天内，道奇捡走了他， 按比例给他大约十万美金的底薪。而他本季的表现谁都料想不到。 The bargain shopping paid dividends. Padilla went 4-0 with a 3.20 ERA in eight games (seven starts) with the Dodgers after signing with the club Aug. 19. "He's pitched well for us, so you never know what's going to happen, you never know who you're going to need or when you're going to need him," Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said. "So part of our plan all year long is to have enough to get us through whatever we needed. And if it meant having Padilla, it was adding Padilla." Padilla's arrival in Los Angeles was preceded by his reputation. He's enigmatic, they said, and a bad teammate to boot. Some of his former Rangers teammates bad-mouthed him on his way out the door, and others wondered how he would adjust to the Dodgers' clubhouse. 这个举动很划算。他八月十九与道奇签约後，八次出赛(七场先发)防御率3.20，四胜零败 。道奇GM Colletti表示: 「本季我们一直在补强，找他来就是因为需要他。」尽管他的 前队友们都批评他是个古怪的家伙，大家也不看好他在道奇可以混得下去，他却做到了。 "The way a person treats me is how I understand who a person is," Dodgers left fielder Manny Ramirez said. "I can't talk about what happened with Vicente in Texas or anywhere else because I wasn't there. He's treated me with respect and he's treated others here with respect. What else do you want? Who am I to judge another person? Let him be who he is. I have no problem with him." 「他以前在游骑兵怎样我不知道，但我现在和他处得不错，他也很尊重我，大家也尊重他 ；一个尊重他人的队友还不够好吗?他有他的处事方式不是吗?」拉米说。 By all accounts, Padilla has fit in fine. Part of the reason for the smooth transition, Padilla said, is because the team is loaded with veterans and he's made fast friends with the Latin players in the clubhouse. He lockers in a corner of the clubhouse and is comfortable in his solitude, which sometimes makes others uncomfortable. He speaks to Spanish media when he's approached and he speaks "baseball-related English," which is sometimes confused as fluent English, to non-Spanish-speaking reporters. Padilla often uses a translator for fear of having his words misconstrued or embarrassing himself with poor English. 帕迪拉表示，他在道奇不错的原因是，队中的老将很多，而且他很快就和队上拉丁裔球员 打成一片。 他让其他人觉得他很怪的原因可能是，他的置物柜在很角落，因为他喜欢幽静不受打扰； 此外，他也不喜开口说英语，因为他的英语和母语西班牙语常常令人不解其意。他现在 都用翻译与不会讲西语的队友沟通。 Some argue Padilla is simply on his best behavior because he is a free agent at the end of the season. Dodgers pitcher Randy Wolf, Padilla's teammate in Philadelphia, said his old friend just needed a fresh start. "When he came over here, I told some of the people here in L.A. that I thought he was going to be a big addition for us," Wolf said. "I think a change of scenery was going to be big for him. I think the way our team is, I think we're very laid back. We let guys do what they need to do." Whatever the Dodgers did, it worked. 有人说，帕迪拉年底就是自由球员，所以根本没啥压力。不过队友Wolf(也是他在费城人的 队友)表示，帕迪拉一来他(Wolf)就认为对球队有重大影响。「我们的球队有个好处，就是 大家可以轻松地做想做的事，而对一个球员来说，换个风景换个地方都是好的，帕迪拉就 是需要一个新环境罢了。」Wolf说。 附:第三战投手与对战介绍 Game 3 starters 道奇Vicente Padilla 红雀Joel Pineiro 2009 季赛 先发 25 32 胜-败 12-6 15-12 防御率 4.46 3.49 保送 54 27 三振 97 105 重要数据 对左打被打击率本季.303 本季领先大联盟的每九局1.1保送 季後赛生涯 无记录 1 G, 0-0, 4.50 ERA 09在红雀主场 无纪录 15 GS, 7-6, 2.87 ERA 09以外生涯在 红雀主场 无记录 3 GS, 2-0, 3.38 ERA 本季与对方交手 无记录 1 GS, 0-0, 1.13 ERA 生涯与对方交手 7 G, 2-1, 3.68 3 GS, 2-0, 3.38 ERA 希望对上的打者 Mark DeRosa(25支4, 5 K) Andre Ethier(7支0) 不想对上的打者 Albert Pujols(9支4, 1 2B, Manny Ramirez(32支14, 1 RBI) 4 HR, 7 RBI) 这场能赢的原因 被交易後近况稳定 本季主场只被打19支长打 隐忧 近八次先发只有两次投过6局 近12次先发只有4.64 ERA 致胜大绝 对自己有自信 红雀轮值里最难捉模者 "He's been fine," Dodgers manager Joe Torre said. "He doesn't say much. I don't think there are any issues at all." There were issues in Texas. Padilla went from Rangers Pitcher of the Year in 2008 to bad teammate of the year in less than 12 months, but he insists he's always been the same person. Yes, he throws inside because that's what he believes he has to do in order to establish his fastball. And if he happens to hit a batter along the way, well, that's the hitter's fault for not moving out of the way. 道奇教头托瑞表示，帕迪拉近况良好。「他只是话比较少一点罢了。」他说。 帕迪拉去年还被认为是游骑兵一哥，一年不到的时间却被认为是难以相处的怪咖。对此， 他本人表示自己始终如一；他爱投内角速球，至於打者被打到，他认为是打者的错，因为 该闪没闪。 The way Padilla sees it, home plate is the battlefield between the hitter and the pitcher, so he'll throw his fastball, sinker, curveball and even his 55-mph eephus pitch to get the upper hand. It's not personal, and he wonders what all of the fuss is about. Padilla has hit 49 batters in the past four seasons but has not hit a batter since joining the Dodgers. 因为他用这种方式看待自己的投球，於是本垒板常常变成战场。所以，他就多用速球、 伸卡和曲球，甚至是55英哩超级慢速球，让自己占上风。 "If you don't throw inside in this league, you will have problems with good hitters," Padilla said. "I've always thrown that way." 他表示，不投内角近身的话，对强打者会很吃鳖。 The right-hander has already come a long way. Padilla signed with the D-backs in 1998 out of Nicaragua because baseball provided the opportunity to pay the bills and see the world. As one story goes, he showed up for his tryout with the D-backs on a donkey. He said he never dreamed of being the next Nicaraguan pitching sensation like Dennis Martinez or as famous as countryman Alexis Arguello, a former world champion boxer. Padilla just wanted to pitch, make a living and help his family. He was raised in poverty by his grandparents 90 minutes outside of Managua under the watchful eye of the Marxist-based Sandinista regime in the war-torn town of Chinandega, so he understands real pressure -- and oppression. 帕迪拉出身尼加拉瓜的穷乡僻壤，由祖父母扶养长大。那里不但有共产主义，还有战争。 所以他知道甚麽是真正的生活压力，以及众人对他的压力。 他说，他当投手只是想养家活口。 Baseball does not elicit real pressure. "Pressure doesn't help anybody. Why feel pressure?" Padilla said. "You do the work to prepare and you go do the job. You can't control anything but working hard and preparing. You try to do more than you can and things go wrong." It should come as no surprise that Padilla and Ramirez have quickly become friends. Like Ramirez, Padilla loves the game and understands the business side of baseball. But the duo also shares the belief that winning or losing is never a matter of life and death. 帕迪拉说: 「压力对谁都不好，干嘛要觉得压力大?你就是好好去做，好好准备；做了太 多，有时候事情反而会搞砸。」 因此，帕迪拉和拉米一样，把棒球做一件乐趣，输赢不去太计较。 Death to Padilla is real. It's as real as the sudden passing of the grandparents who took him in as child and as real as finding his estranged father in bed after a fatal heart attack. When Padilla recounts how he narrowly avoided being recruited as a child soldier by Sandinista guerrillas to fight the U.S.-backed Contras and how many of his boyhood friends ended up dead, he thinks about how fortunate he is to be alive. The love of family, not sport, drives Padilla. His mother, Flora, is traveling from Nicaragua to St. Louis for Saturday's game. "People take everything so seriously," Ramirez said. "You can't do that. You only get one life, and it's short. You play hard, and if it doesn't work out, you come back the next day." 死亡对帕迪拉的影响很大。扶养他长大的祖父母年老不支而猝逝，他那患有心脏病的爸爸 也在不久後走了。而他童年的朋友都被当地政府徵召进入游击队，和美军作战不幸身亡， 这些都让他知道自己有多幸运。他认为，是家庭给他最大的支持。 拉米说:「人们都把事情看太重了。你的一生只有短短一次，你就努力就好，失败的话就 再来嘛。」 Padilla's outlook could have been part of the problem in Texas. He angered some of his former teammates because opposing pitchers would retaliate after he hit a batter and it appeared as if Padilla didn't care. He said he cared. It didn't matter. The Rangers tried to send Padilla a message earlier in the season by placing him on waivers after he hit former Rangers teammate Mark Teixeira twice in a game against the Yankees in June. He hit Oakland catcher Kurt Suzuki in what turned out to be his final start for the Rangers, and the A's responded by hitting Michael Young. 拉米的说法和帕迪拉一样，於是造成了他在游骑兵的问题。他砸到人以後，对手反砸他的 队友，但帕迪拉好像不在乎似的。 他说他其实很在乎，不过这没用。他在今年对上洋基时一场砸了前队友铁爷两次，游骑兵 决定甩了他。他最後一次在游骑兵出赛对上运动家砸了铃木清(Kurt Suzuki)， 对手则回敬在Michael Young身上。 Fed up, the Rangers designated Padilla for assignment two days later. Shortly after his departure, a few former Rangers teammates criticized Padilla for missing meetings and not being a team player. Rangers outfielder Marlon Byrd, Padilla's teammate in Philadelphia, was the most vocal critic. "I'll say it again, nobody ever came up to me and told me anything in Texas," Padilla said. "If I was such a bad teammate, why didn't anyone come say something to me? We could have talked about it. I loved my teammates and Texas. I just work hard and do my job." 游骑兵受够了，於是两天後就释出了帕迪拉。之後，批斗的声浪出现。外野手Marlon Byrd是炮火最烈的。他抨击帕迪拉不参加球队会议，也不像个队友。 「我再重申一次: 还没有任何人上来跟我讨论以前我在游骑兵的事。如果我真那麽坏， 为什麽没人来对我靠腰? 我们可以好好谈这件事没问题，因为我爱我以前在游骑兵的队友 ，我打球也很努力。」 Ramirez, who was traded from the Red Sox amid criticism last season, can relate. He also arrived in Los Angeles with a reputation as a bad teammate and questions about his character. "In this game, you find out who your real friends are when you leave a team," he said. "But you just have to let it go and keep playing. Don't worry about that." It seems Padilla is heeding Ramirez's advice. "Everybody wants to make me this bad guy, but what can you do? I can't control that," he said. "I am who I am. I'll just keep working hard and pitch." 上季也承受批评声浪的拉米，发表他的一些看法。「你一离队，就会知道谁才是你的真正 朋友。但你根本就不用鸟他们，去把球打好就对了。」 帕迪拉看来正在实践拉米的建言。 「当大家都想把你丑化成一个坏蛋，你还可以怎样呢? 我就是我，我还是照做我该做 的事。」帕迪拉说。 --

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