Don’t tell Haren and Weaver pitching is easy ANAHEIM, Calif. – So, it’s a time for pitchers again, when greenies are gone and No. 3 hitters can first handle a glove and cover some ground and someone gave back the 3 mph that drug testing took away. 那麽，当爱搞合谐者消失，第三轮打者首度能够轻松处理，让他们打些 滚地球出局，而且某些人因为药检挥棒慢了3 英哩，现在又是投手宰制 的时刻了。 Through six weeks, ERA’s are down for a fifth consecutive season, and will stay that way as long as there’s May hail in Minnesota, a pitching rebirth in Cleveland, that lineup in San Diego and an offensive chill across much of the game. 球季过了六个星期，联盟防御率已经连续五个球季下降，并且这情况将 会持续一段很长的时间，例如，明尼苏达的五月地狱，克里夫兰的投手 再生，过了许多场比赛依然冷飕飕的圣地牙哥打线。 Already, 73 games have ended in a shutout, a record through May 10. They opened a baseball season and a soccer game broke out. The emphasis has changed, they say. The hitters shrunk and, in standing, the defenses and pitching swelled. 截自5月10号时，本季已经有73场比赛以完封收尾，明明是棒球开打，得 分爆发力却有如足球比赛。 重点已经改变，他们这样说的。标准上打者已经被压缩，投手更强大。 “That’s why in this game, you catch the ball and you’re not overpaid, you’ ll play forever,” said Ozzie Guillen, whose utility infielder is 44-year-old Omar Vizquel. 『这是为什麽在这比赛中，你只会守备的话你拿不到超额的高薪， 你将 要一辈子打球养活身家。』Ozzie Guillen 这麽说的，他的工具人内野手 Omar Vizquel目前是44岁。 Yeah, it’s time to throw fastballs down the middle and watch them die a step from the warning track, followed by a helmet slam and another fastball down the middle. Right? “Absolutely not,” Dan Haren said. 是的，现在该是把快速球投往中间去了，然後看着他们死在全垒打墙一步前， 接着是摔盔秀以及另外一颗红中快速球。 是吗？ “绝对不是，”Dan Haren提到。 Maybe this looks suspiciously like a trend from the outside, where the Year of the Pitcher came packaged on spreadsheets, a no-hitter cluster and a no-stick championship team like the San Francisco Giants. 投手宰制联盟之年的显示包含在各种数据报表里，一群无安打比赛里， 没大棒的冠军队伍像是旧金山巨人里， 也许这情形看起来疑似一股从外面来的流行。 From the mood-lit clubhouse of the Los Angeles Angels, where Haren and Jered Weaver have punished offenses for the better part of April and May, it ’s not quite that easy. They required years to reach something like professional confidence and competence, paths of instant achievement, then slow growth and failure and comprehension. 从天使球员休息室柔和气氛观之，在四月及五月份Haren和Weaver 对攻击 方的惩罚还是更猛的那一部份，这实在相当不简单。过去他们需要数年去 找到某些像是职业的自信心及能力，成功的捷径，然後了解失败为成功之 母的道理慢慢成长。 They came upon personal and delicate formulas for success, and now share them over dinners on the road and across outfield lawns playing catch. 之前他们偶然发现各自微妙的成功方程式，并在路边晚餐或外野传接练习 时间分享之。 Through eight starts apiece, and while anchoring a starting rotation that has dragged the Angels into a surprise first place nearing the season’s quarter pole, Haren and Weaver have matching 1.87 earned run averages and also rank in the American League’s top five in WHIP, strikeouts and percentage of quality starts. 经过各自的八次先发後，他们牢固在轮值表中，也把天使拖进惊奇王座将 近四分之一球季。Haren 和 Weaver 两人通算的防御率是1.87，且排行在 WHIP，三振，优质先发的榜单上都是美联前五名。 Weaver, after winning his first six starts, is 6-2. Haren, who has allowed a total of three earned runs over 20 2/3 innings in three no-decisions, is 4-2. Together, by most analytics, they are the most effective twosome in the game, better than Trevor Cahill and Gio Gonzalez in Oakland, than Roy Halladay and Cole Hamels in Philadelphia, than Justin Masterson and Josh Tomlin in Cleveland, than Josh Johnson and Ricky Nolasco in Florida, than Tim Hudson and Tommy Hanson in Atlanta, than Tim Lincecum and your next best in San Francisco. Weaver在开季六连胜後，目前6胜2败。Haren在3次无关胜负的比赛中投了 20又2/3局，只丢3分自责，目前4胜2败。在棒球分析家眼中，他们是最有 效率二人组，无论是比上 奥克兰的Trevor Cahill 和Gio Gonzalez、 费城的Roy Halladay和Cole Hamels、 克里夫兰的Justin Masterson和Josh Tomlin、 佛罗里达的Josh Johnson和Ricky Nolasco、 亚特兰大的Tim Hudson和Tommy Hanson、 旧金山的Tim Lincecum和你认为第二强投， 两位全优过他们。 It’s six weeks, not even 40 games yet. But, if this is to be Year of the Pitcher II, then so far they are the “II.” Or, certainly, two of the “II.” 才六周，甚至还没打完40场比赛。但，假设要颁个年度最佳投手二人组，那 麽到目前为止他们就是那“二”人。或者说，肯定是两联盟其中最佳一组。 Haren, at 30 years old, nine seasons in the big leagues and on his fourth organization, talks like the sage veteran of the pair. “I’ve been around a little bit,” he said. Where he recalled throwing 95 mph and playing his signature splitter off that, he said, “Now I’m at 90 and throwing 50 cutters a game.” After falling for five consecutive seasons, Haren’s groundball rate is trending up again, a happy surprise for him. Haren，现年30岁，在大联盟九个球季里待了四支球队，像圣贤般的老兵谈了 以下这段话。 “我见过点世面了，”他提到。 他回忆起当初他可以投出95 mph的速球以及招牌指叉球後提到，“现在我球速 大概在90 mph，并且一场比赛里投了50颗的卡特球。 Haren 的滚地球率过去连续五个球季下降，但现在再次提升，这对他而言是种 惊喜。 Weaver is 28. From the pitcher who, not two years out of Long Beach State, won his first nine decisions, lost 20 of his next 45 and is 34-21 since, Weaver has taken command of four pitches – and four pitches within those pitches. Always effective through command and deception, he now changes speeds with his fastball, signature changeup, slider and curve. Weaver现年28岁。投手出身，只有两年不住在这长海滩之州(加州)，上大联盟 之後连拿了九胜，接下来45场里输了20场，在之後战绩34胜21败，Weaver擅长 四大球种，这四种球只是包含在他所会种类的范围内。透过控球与配球这四大 球种总是很有效解决打者，现在他还能在速球，招牌变速，滑球，曲球上面改 变速度。 “When I first came in, I was relying on talent,” he said. “I’d pitch to my strengths. I didn’t know the league and it didn’t know me. The league kind of adjusted to me. I had to adjust back. That’s the hard part.” Weaver提到：『当我第一次来到大联盟，全仰仗天份在投球，用蛮力投球。我 不认识这联盟，它也不认识我。这联盟让它适应我，我也必须让自己适应它。 这是艰难的一部份。』 One American League hitting coach called a Weaver game, “Some of the most uncomfortable at-bats of the season.” Weaver delivers from the extreme third-base side of the rubber, strides toward something like the third-base on-deck circle, then throws across his body. Basically, he’s pitching from behind right-handed hitters, who are batting .132 and slugging .189 against him. 一位美联打击教练这麽称呼Weaver的投球“球季里某些最不舒服的打席数。” Weaver投球时是站在投手板最靠近三垒的那部份，朝向三垒跨步的动作就像那 里是打击区一样，然後横过身体投出球来。 The long and slow delivery, his positioning on the mound and the ability to hide the ball, he hardly gives any of it a thought. It’s how his father taught him to pitch, and how he emulated older brother Jeff, and what he brings every fifth day to the Angels. 长又慢的投球动作，投手丘上的姿势，藏球能力，他很难对这些下任何注解。 因为这些全是老爸敎他投球，模仿老哥Jeff，以及每五天帮天使出战所累积下 来的经验。 “I’ve always had the confidence I could do the thing I’m doing,” he said. “I don’t think that’s any different than I’ve done in the past.” 他提到：『我总是很有信心，把我正在做的事情做到好，因为我不认为跟过去 所做有何不同之处。』 The way Haren found himself four or five big league seasons in, when the results – wins and ERA – began to reflect a full season’s precision, so too has Weaver. His ERA is half what it was two years ago, when he won 16 games and was developing the knowledge and feel he has today. 经过四或五个球季Haren找到自我的成功方程式，成果(胜投和防御率)开始反映 在整季高品质表现上。Weaver 亦是如此，他目前的防御率比他前两年还低了一 半，过去他曾有过单季16胜，在不停的成长智慧後，才会有今天的他。 Angels manager Mike Scioscia saw Orel Hershiser come along the same path, first winning, then flattening out, then winning again when it all made sense again. 天使教头Mike Scioscia曾看过Orel Hershiser走过相同的成长之路，一开始赢 个不停，然後逐渐平凡，接着在一切合情合理情况下又开始赢个不停。 “You find your game out there,” Scioscia said. “You find what you do best.” Or, as Haren put it, “He goes out there and doesn’t have to do more than what he is.” Then, if you’re healthy and a little lucky, too, perhaps greatness follows. And if it happens to follow a trend, well, so be it. Scioscia表示：『你在那里找寻自己的比赛方法，你会找到最佳的自我表现。』 否则，当Haren放弃比赛“他得从那里离开，也没必要做的比现在还多。” 那麽，假设你身体勇，运气也好，也许伟大随之而来。 且假设伟大碰巧跟随流行，好吧，就那样好了。 http://tinyurl.com/3g3oh52 -- 有错请指正，感谢 --

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