翻译若有误，敬请告知，谢谢！ <(_ _)> ※ 引述《leddy (耿秋)》之铭言： : Spring training: Dodgers' Kuo can't be hit harder than he has on road to : majors 春训报导：历经通往大联盟之路後，已经没有什麽事能打击道奇队投手郭泓志了 : 11:45 PM PST on Monday, March 5, 2007 : from www.pe.com : By DIAMOND LEUNG : The Press-Enterprise : V ERO BEACH, Fla. : Arms crossed, Hong-Chih Kuo glares at the words: Impossible is nothing. : Story continues below : It's only a catchy adidas slogan, isn't it? Just an Asian ad campaign : celebrating the 25-year-old, whose three-time surgically repaired left arm : has finally allowed him to pitch effectively at the big-league level and : challenge to begin this season as the Dodgers' fifth starter. : But what means everything to Kuo is not his image as an emerging Taiwanese : hero -- a cell phone pitchman in TV commercials who had his biography : published last month. It's a seven-year-old videotape of him throwing in his : first professional game. 手臂交叉在胸前，郭泓志凝视着前方「Impossible is nothing」这行字。 这不是让人朗朗上口的爱迪达广告词吗？嗯，这是一场在亚洲举行的广告活动，庆祝一位 25 岁就在左手动过 3 次手术的年轻人，最终能站在大联盟球场上投球，而这个球季他又 将争取成为道奇队第五号先发投手。 但对於郭泓志而言，这一切代表的意义，并非他是一位窜起的台湾英雄—成为电视手机 广告的代言人，并在一个月前出版了他的自传；而是一卷尘封七年的录影带，纪录着他投 出职业生涯的第一场比赛的画面... : The scene, from a California League game in San Bernardino, should have been : a proud moment. Months earlier, Kuo became the first player from the island : nation to sign with a major league team out of high school. : Before the 17-year-old accepted a $1.2 million bonus and attention from the : cameras at his press conference in Taiwan, he received his cancer-stricken : father's blessing to leave for the land of opportunity. : "He told me I gotta try to make it to the major leagues," Kuo said. : In his debut, Kuo struck out seven of the 10 batters he faced without : allowing a hit. It was a performance so dominating, even for Class A, that : one youthful Dodgers executive in attendance imagined this was what his : father must have seen from Sandy Koufax. 时间拉回到七年前，地点则是在 San Bernardino 进行的一场加州联盟的比赛，这是一 个令人感到骄傲的时刻。在几个月前，郭泓志成为了台湾有史以来第一位与大联盟球团 签约的高中毕业生。这位十七岁的年轻人一夕间赚进了 120 万美金，在记者会上成为镁 光灯竞逐的焦点，他并带着罹患癌症父亲的祝福离开台湾岛。「他告诉我，我必须尽全 力拼上大联盟」，郭泓志回忆道。 在职业生涯处女秀，郭泓志面对10 位打者并三振其中 7 位，没有任何人能从他手中击 出安打。这样的表现实在太惊人了！即便这只是一场 1A 球赛，当时现场一位道奇球团 的经理（executive）也不禁惊叹：这就是我老爸当初看 Sandy Koufax 投球的感觉吧！ : But on the second to last pitch he threw, Kuo heard a horrific pop in his : elbow. Then, on what would be his final pitch for the next 14 months, he : struck out the batter -- on a curveball, no less. : Suddenly on LA's Radar Gun : It wasn't supposed to happen like this. Then again, was it any more : improbable than Kuo getting noticed by an American scout at a time when few : Taiwanese prospects were on the radar, and Chin-Feng Chen was more than three : years away from becoming the first of his countrymen to reach the majors, : also with the Dodgers? 但，在郭泓志第二次登板投完最後一球後，他听到手肘爆出一声可怕的声响。然後这一 球，也是接下来 14 个月郭泓志所投出的最後一球，仍然让打者三振出局，这是一颗不 偏不倚的曲球。 没有人预期会发生这种事。事实上，当时台湾球员被球探盯上的少之又少，而陈金锋 到美国打拼也已经三年，郭泓志能在台湾岛上吸引到众多美国球探的目光，这已经是件 不可思议的事。然而出乎大家意料之外的事情，又再发生了。 : Acey Kohrogi, the Dodgers' director of Asian operations, happened to be : watching a tournament in Japan when he spied a skinny high school left-hander : lighting up a stadium radar gun that clocked pitches in kilometers. : "What's 157?" he wondered. : Ninety-seven mph was the answer. Even in Asia, where off-speed pitches : dominate, the boy was unafraid of challenging hitters with his fastball. : Kuo is fearless, a Taiwanese baseball official told Kohrogi. He had grown up : playing with future Yankees star Chien-Ming Wang and in high school nearly : outdueled a Japanese pitcher named Daisuke Matsuzaka. 道奇球团亚洲区事务长 Acey Kohrogi，刚好在日本举办的亚洲盃少棒锦标赛中，看到 一位身材纤瘦的高中左投，让球场的测速看板成为众人瞩目的焦点。「157是多快？」 Acey Kohrogi 心里算着，答案是 97 mile。一般亚洲投手习惯用速差迷惑打者，但眼前 这个孩子竟毫不畏惧用他的快速球挑战打者。一位台湾棒球界人士告诉 Kohrogi，郭泓 志从不怕挑战，他从小和现在洋基队的明日之星王建民一起打球，在高中的时候和松板 大辅对阵也毫不逊色。 : And Kuo made an attractive signing because it was thought his arm had not yet : been exposed to a heavy workload. : But shortly after Kuo arrived in America, speaking only Mandarin, he was left : shaking his head at the injury that forced him to undergo an operation that : he had never heard of to salvage his career. 郭泓志随後签了一个签约金丰厚的合约，因为他的手臂被认为尚未被过度使用。 但是郭泓志到美国後不久，甚至还完全不会说英文的时候，就因左手的伤势被送进手术房 ；在此之前，他压根没想过挽救投手生涯这回事。 : Hit Hard on Way to Majors : Tommy John surgery to replace the ligament in his elbow cost him the rest of : his 2000 season. Later that year he returned home to visit his father shortly : before he died. : The hard knocks kept coming. Kuo didn't heal properly even after an operation : to clear scar tissue and needed a second Tommy John surgery that sidelined : him for all of 2003. : "He's not a real show-emotion kind of guy, but you could tell facial-wise : that he was disturbed watching guys that he came into the system with go to : the big leagues," said Ken Howell, Kuo's minor league pitching coach. "You : could see the frustration." 汤米约翰手术目的在於更换手肘韧带，这使得郭泓志 2000 年球季完全泡汤。过完年後 郭泓志即短暂返家探望他的父亲，不久之後他的父亲去世了。 沈痛的打击接踵而至。郭泓志动完伤疤清除手术後，仍没有完全复原，而需要动第二次 汤米约翰手术。这使得整个 2003 球季又只能坐在场边看球。 「其实他并不是一个会把情绪表露於外的人，但你仍可从他脸上表情知道，当他看到那 些升上大联盟的球员时，心中充满着复杂的情绪」，郭泓志小联盟的投手教练 Ken Howell 提到：「你可以看的出来，这孩子非常的沮丧」。 : But officials thought enough of Kuo to have him rehab at Dodger Stadium, : where he received emotional support from Tommy John veterans Eric Gagne and : Darren Dreifort. : After five pro seasons, Kuo had thrown a grand total of 42 1/3 innings in 18 : games, most of his time spent testing his arm with doses of fastballs, : change-ups and sliders. He'd also bulked up to a solid 6-foot-1, 235 pounds. : Finally, in September 2005, Kuo made his major league debut. Kohrogi : presented his prized prospect with some mementos -- the Dodgers cap he wore : on signing day and footage of that dramatic first start in San Bernardino, : shot from the dugout by his translator. 但道奇球团并没有放弃郭泓志，球团把他安排在道奇球场复健，在那边有动过汤米约翰 手术的老大哥 Eric Gagne 和 Darren Dreifort，他们也成为郭泓志最佳的心灵辅导员。 在这 5 个球季中，郭泓志总计只投了 18 场比赛，共 42 又 1/3 局，大部分的时间他一 次又一次地练习投直球、变速球、滑球，测试他的手臂。而他的身材也膨胀到 6 尺 1 寸 、235 磅。最终，在 2005 年 9 月，郭泓志站上了大联盟球场的投手丘。Kohrogi 也为 这位他一手带进道奇的新秀送上了纪念品—郭泓志在签约日所戴的道奇球帽，以及郭泓志 在 San Bernardino 那次传奇性初登板的录影带（由郭泓志的翻译於球员休息室拍摄）。 : "I hoped they would give him strength," said Kohrogi, who was later told Kuo : had tears in his eyes while breaking down the tape. : Kuo was twice demoted to Class AAA Las Vegas and converted to a starter after : going 0-4 with a 5.34 ERA as a reliever. Last year, in the heat of the : pennant race, he was handed the ball for his first career start, as an : emergency replacement. : On what was coincidentally Taiwan Heritage Night at Shea Stadium, Kuo no-hit : the Mets for four innings and shut them out for six to earn win No. 1. : "I've seen this kid pitch when the lights were the brightest, and he showed : up," Howell said. "And that's what you can't teach. Players either have that : or they don't, and he has it." 「我希望这些东西能够带给他力量」，Kohrogi 说道。他稍後并透露，当这些带子之前 弄坏的时候，郭泓志还流了一些眼泪。 郭泓志被道奇定位为後援投手，缴出 0 胜 4 败，防御率 5.34 的成绩後，便被下放至 3A 重新担任先发投手。上个球季末，在外卡争夺战如火如荼展开时，郭泓志被紧急拉上 大联盟替补原本的先发投手上场。当天碰巧是大都会主场 Shea Stadium 的「Taiwan Heritage Night」，郭泓志在前四局完全封锁大都会的攻势，没有让打者击出任何安打， 让大都会打者在他六局的投球一筹莫展，郭泓志赢得大联盟生涯首胜。 「我在这孩子最风光的时候看他投过球，而他现在已经熬出头了」 Howell 说道：「这 种事是你没办法教的。有些球员有这种天分，有些没有，我确定这孩子有天分」。 : Kuo was handed a phone after the game, and on the other end was Kohrogi, who : compared the feelings of that evening with the joy of watching one of his own : children succeed. : "Thank you," Kuo said. "I made it." 郭泓志在赛後手拿着电话，电话另一头是 Kohrogi，在这个看着他一手拉拔的孩子成功的 夜晚，两人互相交换喜悦的心情。 郭泓志对着电话说：「谢谢你，我做到了。」 : Reach Diamond Leung : at [email protected] --

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