SEATTLE -- Ryan Rowland-Smith is 100 percent behind the return of professional baseball to his native Australia. RRS 100%确定要回到自己的家乡─澳洲的棒球联盟进行比赛。 It was jointly announced on Thursday by Major League Baseball and the Australia Baseball Federation that professional baseball will return to Australia in November with the launch of the Australian Baseball League. 这件事情在礼拜二时由大联盟跟澳洲的职业联盟共同宣布， 在各界的推动下职业棒球将於11月重返澳洲 The ABL will provide the vast talent pool of baseball players from Australia with the opportunity to compete in an elite national league, which will serve as a pipeline to MLB and other international leagues. MLB has partnered with the Australian Baseball Federation in support of the league. ABL(澳洲职业联盟)提供许多优秀且有浅力的球员机会去比赛藉以提升球员的经验， 这些都将让这些年轻的球员有一个筑梦的管道得以进入棒球的殿堂MLB或是其他国际上的 棒球联盟，MLB跟澳洲棒协常有密切的合作，从ABL就可以看出来。 "When I was a kid growing up in the mid-'90s, we had a professional league but it got shut down," the Mariners left-hander said. " It was really disappointing because I couldn't see any live, quality baseball." 这位水手队的澳洲左投说：『当我还是小鬼的时候，我们也有职业棒球， 只是他倒了。那是很令人失望因为我看不到现场转播也看不到优质的棒球赛。』 The inaugural ABL season will run from November through January and consist of six teams, representing Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide. 新的ABL赛季将会在11月时开跑一直比赛到1月，总共有6支球队共襄盛举， 将在澳洲各大城市比赛，包括了雪梨以及墨尔本等大城市。 The six teams, stocked with prospects from several countries, will be aligned in a single division with each team playing a 40-game schedule. Each team will play a four-game series at home and away against each of the other five teams. 6支球队拥有许多来自不同国家的新秀，每支球队将会进行共计40场赛事包含了 4个主场系列赛跟4个客场系列赛。 The top four teams at the end of the regular season will move on to the playoffs, consisting of three best-of-three-game series. The playoffs will run from the last week of January through the second week of February. 只有4只球队最後可以在球季结束之後进入季後赛(Playoffs)， 季後赛将进行5战3胜制的系列赛，季後赛将预计在1月的最後一个礼拜到2月的 第二个礼拜间进行。 Rowland-Smith said he has arranged his offseason schedule so that he will spend November and December in Australia to help the ABL be successful. RRS表示他已经安排了将在11月以及12月会在澳洲的球队比赛， 他说他会帮助澳洲职业联盟，他希望ABL会是成功的。 "I would like to be involved in any way I can to help the profile of it, possibly from a media level," he said. "Being more of a senior member of Australian Baseball Federation, me and hopefully some of the other guys, like Grant Balfour, will do the same thing." RRS说他会尽力让澳洲的职业联盟发展得更好， 做为一个比较成长(或是稍有成就的)的澳洲棒球员， 他跟许多跟他一样也觉得身负重任的人都一样， 他们都认为自己将会对澳洲的棒球发展做一些事情。 ============================================================================== P.S. 最近在念英文学英文，刚好想到既然在学英文乾脆练习翻译文章 有错误或是意见请一定要告诉我(T.T) 让我好好知道哪里可以改进！ 这几天应该会开始翻译好多篇新闻文章。 P.S.2 感谢 sakaizawa 大大给我的意见跟纠正错误~~~~ 感谢感谢~~ --

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