http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-shaikin-angels10-2009apr10,0,1635015.story Alone with his grief in baseball cathedral 在棒球殿堂里，他剩下的，只有悲痛。 Angels open stadium, and hearts, to Adenhart's father. 天使队对Adenhart的父亲不仅打开了球场，也敞开了心房。 Bill Shaikin April 10, 2009 [email protected] As darkness gave way to dawn, the doctors delivered the awful news: There was nothing more they could do to save his son. 当黎明终於除去了黑暗，医生带来的却是悲惨的消息：他们已经对他的儿子无能为力了。 Jim Adenhart found his sanctuary where his son found joy. Jim Adenhart在他儿子找到快乐的地方，找到了他的庇护。 The hospital was no place for a grieving father, not in the hour after death, not when there was solace in life, and in baseball. And so the Angels unlocked their stadium, and their clubhouse, for a private sunrise service Thursday morning. 医院毕竟没办法继续收容一位如此悲痛的父亲，在Nick死後不到一小时，在他还没在 棒球、在生命里找到他的慰藉。所以天使队打开了他们的球场和clubhouse，在这礼拜 的早上，让他在这私人地迎接日出。 Nick Adenhart had walked through those doors just eight hours before, all smiles. Jim Adenhart walked through those doors, just past 7 a.m., all tears. Nick就在八小时前才走过这些门，满脸都是微笑。 Jim在才过早上七点的此时也走过这里，却是满脸泪水。 Mike Butcher, the Angels' pitching coach, led Jim to his son's locker. Butcher stepped back, leaving a respectful distance. Mike Butcher，天使的投手教练，带领他来到他儿子的置物柜。 Butcher向後退了几步，保留给他一些尊重的距离。 This would be Jim's first memorial service for his son, all his own. 这会是Jim第一次向他的儿子表示追忆，满怀不舍且哀伤。 He saw. He touched. He prayed. He cried. 他看到了。他接触到了。他祷告着。他痛哭着。 Ken Higdon, the Angels' clubhouse manager, handed him the jersey his son had worn Wednesday night, when Nick pitched six shutout innings, the finest game of his young life. He was 22. Ken Higdon，天使球员室管理员，递给他他儿子礼拜三晚上先发时穿的制服，就是那场 他这年轻的一生中投过的最棒的--六局完封的比赛，他仅仅才22岁。 Perhaps Jim thought about what his son had told him a few days ago. He lives in Maryland, but his son urged him to fly to California for his first start in this new season. 也许Jim想起前几天他儿子对他说了些甚麽。他住在Maryland，但他儿子催促他飞到 California来看他新球季的第一场先发。 "You better come here, because something special is going to happen," Nick told his father, according to agent Scott Boras. "你最好给我来，因为有特别的事会发生！" 根据经纪人Scott Boras的说词，Nick这样跟他父亲说。 If the son had not been looking out for the father, then the father would not have been minutes away from the hospital when he got that 3 a.m. call, with the horrible news that his son had been critically injured in a traffic accident. 如果不是儿子这样关切父亲，当那通凌晨三点，带来他儿子在车祸中严重受创的电话 打来时，他不会距离医院只有几分钟的车程。 Jim was not alone in those predawn hours. Butcher was at the hospital. So was Tim Mead, the Angels' vice president of communications. So were Boras and two of his lieutenants, Mike Fiore and Jeff Musselman. Jim在这黎明前的几个小时并不孤独。Butcher也在医院。天使队的副总裁，Tim Mead 也在。Boras跟他两名助手Mike Fiore和Jeff Musselman也都在。 The men accompanied Jim to the stadium and into the clubhouse, then left him alone at his son's locker. Five minutes passed, then 10, then 15. 这些人陪伴Jim到球场也进到了clubhouse，然後留下他独自和Nick的置物柜相伴。 五分钟过了，十分钟过了，十五分钟... And then cellphones started ringing, almost all at once. The word had gotten out. The world demanded confirmation, details, reaction. 然後手机突然响起来了，几乎每一只都是同时响起。有些话必须说出来了。 外界需要确认这件事情、细节、和接下来的动作。 The Angels arranged a news conference. Jim chose not to attend. General Manager Tony Reagins and Manager Mike Scioscia spoke, not easily but without losing composure. 天使队安排了一场记者会。Jim选择不出席。球队总经理Tony Reagins和经理 Mike Scioscia发言，虽然不容易但还是尽量保持了镇定。 Boras lost his. 但Boras崩溃了。 He is the agent fans love to hate, full of lengthy discourses on why his players deserve millions upon millions. He can speak dispassionately, almost robotically. 他是位球迷又爱又恨的经理人，对於他旗下那些值好几百万的球员有着又多又长的评论。 他可以毫无感情的说话，几乎跟机器人一样。 On this day, he could not suppress his raw emotions. He could barely get through a sentence. 但在这天，他无法压抑住他最原始的情绪。他几乎无法完整地说出一整句话。 He choked up. He paused, then spoke haltingly. He stopped midway through his first sentence, pulling out a tissue, wiping away his tears. 他哽咽着。他暂停了一下，然後断断续续地说着。他在说第一句话时中途停下来， 抽出了一张面纸，抹去了他的眼泪。 Boras, an agent for 25 years, said he'd never had a day like this one. Boras，这位做了25年之久的经理人，他说他这辈子不曾经历过像这样的一天。 "As you could tell," he said. "This is an industry that is largely youth. We're just not very prepared. It's just shocking to get the phone call." "跟你们所能说的一样，"他说道。"他是这麽样的年轻有天份。我们根本无法接受。 接到这通电话是这麽样的令人震惊。" The Angels, sadly enough, get more than their share of those calls. They're already wearing a memorial patch this season in honor of scouting consultant Preston Gomez, who died this year at 86. 已经够悲伤的天使队，遭受到的打击是更甚於那些电话。他们在这之前已经因为 Preston Gomez这位在86岁死亡的球探顾问戴上了纪念性的缀饰。 "It seems like, for a while there, something happened to the Angels every year," Cincinnati Reds Manager Dusty Baker said. "这好像是，已经有一阵子了，每年总会有一些...事发生在天使队身上"，红人队的 经理Dusty Baker说道。 Pitcher Donnie Moore committed suicide at 35, three years after giving up the home run that kept the Angels out of the 1986 World Series. 投手Donnie Moore在35岁时自杀，在挨了那记让天使在1986年无法进入WS的全垒打之後 的第三年。 Outfielder Lyman Bostock was murdered at 27. Michelle Carew, daughter of Hall of Famer Rod Carew, died of leukemia at 18. Coach Deron Johnson died of lung cancer at 53. 外野手Lyman Bostock在27岁时被谋杀。Michelle Carew，这位名人堂球员Rod Carew的 女儿，因为白血病而享年18岁。总教练Deron Johnson因肺癌在53岁时过世。 Pitcher Dick Wantz died of a brain tumor at 25. Three players died in car accidents in the 1970s: infielder Chico Ruiz at 33, infielder Mike Miley at 24, pitcher Bruce Heinbechner at 23. 投手Dick Wantz在25岁因脑瘤去世。在1970年代三位球员在车祸中丧生。内野手 Chico Ruiz 33岁，内野手Mike Miley 24岁，投手Bruce Heinbechner 23岁。 This is not a curse. That is the stuff of feeble minds. This is a tragedy, not the loss of a baseball player but the loss of a son, the greatest tragedy that can befall any parent. 这不是诅咒。那是内心软弱的人才会用的字。这是悲剧，不仅仅是失去一位棒球选手， 更是失去一个儿子，这是降临在任何一对父母身上最惨的悲剧。 Jim Adenhart did speak Thursday, not to the media but in a closed-door team meeting. He made a second trip to the clubhouse, eight hours after his first, to thank the players and coaches who had befriended his son. Jim Adenhart的确有说了一些话，不是对那些媒体而是在球队的内部会议里。他在八小 时之後第二次来到了clubhouse，为了去向那些和他的儿子成为朋友的球员和教练道谢。 After a few minutes, Mead escorted him onto the field, where the flags had been lowered to half-staff. 过了几分钟，Mead陪同他来到了球场上，这时球上的旗帜已经降了半旗。 This was the middle of the afternoon, when the players normally would be stretching, playing catch, taking batting practice. 这是下午的中间时刻，也是球员理论上应该开始伸展、传接、作打击练习的时间。 There was no game on this day; the Angels were to have played the Oakland A's, but it was postponed. 这天并没有比赛；天使本来要对上运动家，但这场比赛延期了。 There was no one else on the field. 所以此时没有任何人在球场上。 Jim Adenhart, wearing a red Angels pullover, walked slowly to the pitcher's mound. He lingered for a few minutes. He crouched, appearing to cry. Jim Adenhart穿着天使队的外套，慢慢地走向投手丘。他在哪里徘徊了几分钟。 他蹲了下来，看起来好像快要哭了。 He stood up and looked to the heavens. He fixed his gaze there for a few moments. He bid farewell to his son, from the very place that made him so happy. 他又站了起来，然後望向天空。他在那定住眼神凝视了好一会儿。 他向他最爱的儿子给予最後的告别，从那个让他曾经如此快乐的地方。 (这是我这辈子翻过最难过的外电) Farewell, Nick. --

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