※ 引述《ottokang (猫猫的大玩偶)》之铭言： : NEW YORK -- Hong-Chih Kuo is from Taiwan, but the Dodgers have been treating : him like fine china. 虽然郭泓志来自台湾，但道奇队待他像珍贵的瓷器一般。 : They've feared that a left elbow twice reconstructed by Tommy John surgery : couldn't withstand the demands of a starting pitcher, so they had the : 25-year-old relieve all year. For at least one huge emergency start against : the Mets Friday night, he proved his caretakers happily wrong. 他们怕经过两次Tommy John手术的左肘无法负荷先发投手的负担，所以让这25岁的年 轻人後援了一整年。藉由星期五晚上对大都会的紧急先发，他很高兴地证明了保护他 的人是错的。 : As Dodgers rookies have done all season, Kuo stepped up in a crucial game and : delivered like a veteran. Pitching exclusively from the stretch in his first : career start, he threw six scoreless innings in a 5-0 shutout win that kept : the Dodgers in first place and will keep Kuo in the rotation for at least : another start. 跟道奇其它新秀整个球季以来做的一样，小小郭为这场关键比赛挺身而出，并且投的 像是久战沙场的老将一样。他全力投好生涯第一场先发，在5:0无失分的六局内，他让 道奇队继续保持首位，同时也让自己至少继续留在先发轮值内一次。 : Kuo, who won his first career game, received home runs from Rafael Furcal and : Nomar Garciaparra, but needed nothing more than the two gift runs that scored : in the first inning on David Wright's throwing error. 赢得生涯第一胜的小小郭得到Furcal和Garciaparra的全垒打支持，不过其实他只需要 一局上Wright失误所送的两分礼物。 : And somewhere out there in retirement land, another star-crossed former : Dodgers pitcher should take some satisfaction in knowing that Kuo might not : have done this without his help. 在某个地方过着退休生活的前道奇衰投手，应该会很欣慰如果没有他的帮忙，小小郭 也不会做到这样 (按: 投的这麽好)。 : "When I had to have the second operation, I thought about quitting and going : home, but Darren Dreifort told me to keep going," Kuo said, after the waves : of Taiwanese reporters subsided. "He said he was 30 years old and he had two : surgeries, and he was still pitching, and I should keep going, too." 在台湾记者的波浪舞结束後，小小郭说:当我第二次需要手术时，我想过要放弃，然後 回家，Dreifort告诉我要坚持下去，我都30好几了，也经过两次手术，但是我还在投， 你也应该要继续投。 : Kuo also credited guidance from Eric Gagne and support from family and : friends for picking him up when he repeatedly felt down. Previous Dodgers : administrations, having invested a $1.25 million signing bonus in Kuo as a : 17-year-old, stuck with him, and the reward came against the toughest lineup : in the league with the Dodgers reeling from four losses in five days. 小小郭也感谢Gagne以及来自家人及朋友(按:应该是曹董吧:p)在他持续低潮时给他的 支持及鼓励，前道奇管理着在17岁小小郭的签约金上投资了125万，支持他，而他回 报以带领在五天内四败的道奇队对付全大联盟最恐怖的打线。 : "He looked 100 percent different as a starter from a reliever," said Furcal, : whose torrid second half continued with two hits and two runs. "When a rookie : comes out of the bullpen and walks a couple guys, they take him out of the : game. As a starter, he stays in. This is what we were looking for now, : somebody coming up from the Minor Leagues and helping you out." Furcal说:他先发和後援简直判若两人(按:是後援时太冏吗 orz)，当这个新秀从牛棚 走出来放火时，教练只能把他换下来，而先发时，他一直投出好球，这才是我们需要的， 来自小联盟的帮忙。 : Kuo battled butterflies in the first inning when he issued two of his three : walks, but got a major assist when catcher Russell Martin threw out Jose : Reyes trying to steal third base. He sailed after that, not allowing his : first hits until the fifth inning, finishing with three hits allowed and : seven strikeouts in six innings. Kuo used 90 pitches, some reaching 96 mph, : and said he could have gone longer on what was, fittingly, Taiwanese Heritage : Night at Shea Stadium. 小小郭第一局遇到小小的乱流，他送出了今天三个保送中的两个，还好补手将Reyes阻 杀在三垒之前帮了他大忙，在那之後他稳定了下来，直到第五局才被打第一支安打， 以六局被打三安而且三振七人结束这一天，他用了90球，有些球速达到了96mi，而且 他说他可以在这完美的台湾之夜投的更久一点。 : "His fastball is really sneaky, which is why he gets a lot of swings and : misses," said Martin. "His slider was tight tonight. The difference in him : starting and relieving is that he has the time to establish his fastball, and : when the hitters cheat, he can use his off-speed [pitches] more. He has the : stuff to face a lineup two or three times." Martin说:他的快速球太刁钻了，所以他才会让那麽多人挥棒落空，他的滑球也很赞， 他先发和後援的差别就在於他有时间培养投快速球的感觉，当打者被骗时，他可以再 用多一点他超快的快速球，他有能力解决打线两三轮。 : Kuo agrees with all of that, and added that as a starting pitcher, he has : sufficient time to loosen up that bionic arm, compared with the : sometimes-hurried warmups required from a reliever. 小小郭完全同意这点，他又说，当先发投手时，他可以有充裕的时间来热开他那人工 手臂，不像当後援投手时，常要紧急上阵。 : "I feel better warming up as a starter," he said. "I'm more comfortable, but : I do whatever they tell me to." 他说：我比较喜欢以先发投手的方式热身，这样我比较舒服，不过不管他们叫我做 什麽，我都会做! : Manager Grady Little said he will tell Kuo he's starting Thursday in Chicago : against the Cubs. He started Friday as a fill-in for the injured Chad : Billingsley, who is expected to return to the rotation next weekend. Kuo : could then emerge as the replacement for Mark Hendrickson, who has been sent : to the bullpen. 总教练小先星说他会告诉小小郭星期四他会在芝加哥对上小熊，星期五他是替受伤的 Billingsley先发的，他下周末会回到轮值表中，小小郭会以替补到牛棚的Hendrickson 的角色融入先发阵容。 : "[Kuo] deserves to have another chance," said Little. "At least one or two : more, and maybe 10 years worth." 小先生说：他投的这麽好，是应该有另的机会，再一两次，或许再十年。 : Little was honest explaining why it took the Dodgers five months to figure : out that Kuo should be a starter. 小先生很诚实的解释为什麽道奇要花五个月才发现小小郭适合先发。 : "Maybe he's showed where his strongest desires were, but the situation in : Spring Training, after all of the arm problems of the past, we were a little : bit scared to use him for a length of time," Little said. "But he showed he : was healthy at Triple-A starting." 他说:或许他表现出他最想当先发投手，但是在春训时的状况、他手臂的病痛史，让我 们很怕让他投太久，不过他在三A当先发的表现，让我们了解他身体没问题。 : Kuo was demoted to Triple-A twice after unsuccessful bullpen stints with the : Dodgers this year, and was told to start at Las Vegas because added innings : would provide additional opportunity to refine his command. As recently as : two weeks ago, management still considered him a reliever. But the unraveling : of the back end of the Dodgers rotation and Kuo's success starting at Las : Vegas led to Friday night's assignment. 今年小小郭在道奇几次不成功的後援後，下放到三A两次，然後他被告知要先发，因为 长局数有助於他改善控球，一直到两周前总教练还是认为他是後援投手，不过先发轮 值後段班的瓦解以及小小郭在三A成功的先发，造就了星期五晚上先发的指派。 : And persistence kept him in the sport after he suffered his elbow injury in : spectacularly tragic fashion. In his professional debut on April 10, 2000, he : struck out seven of the 10 batters he faced, blew out his elbow ligament, : made two more pitches to end the inning, then underwent a first Tommy John : surgery. 他的坚持让他的运动生涯得以持续，他悲剧性的手伤，是在他2000年4月10号生涯初登 版时造成的，那天他三振了他面对的10个打者中的七个，投断了他的韧带，再投两球 结束那局後，就做了第一次Tommy John手术。 : He resumed pitching 14 months later, but problems persisted and he required : the procedure again, forcing him to miss the entire 2003 season. He also : underwent another operation to clear scar tissue from the transplanted : ligament, a common side effect. He pitched in only three games in 2004 and : entered the 2005 season with a total of 40 1/3 innings pitched in five years. : Finally healthy, Kuo made up for lost time with a meteoric rise last year : that began at Class A Vero Beach and ended with a September callup to the : Major Leagues from Double-A. This is his third stint with the big-league club : this year. 他在14个月後才又投球，但是问题依旧存在，他又经历了一次手术，让他2003球季泡 汤，为了除去移植来的韧带造成的组织，他又动了一次手术，这是常见的副作用， 在2004年他只出赛了三场，在2005年球季前，他五年总共只投了40又3分之1局，最後， 小小郭在去年像流星般窜起补足了逝去的时光，从一A开始投，而在9月就从二A直接 上大联盟，这是他今年第三次上到大联盟。 -- 这篇也太长了吧 --

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