Yankees Can Add Clemens’s Elbow to Recent Woes By TYLER KEPNER Published: September 4, 2007 帅哥Tyler Kepner的文章不错看 重点: 洋基最近的不幸可能还要加上老克的肘 1. Nolan Ryan是历史上唯一比老克更多三振的球员, Ryan在46岁时投出他最後一球对 上西雅图水手队, 手肘韧带的撕裂伤结束了Ryan相当耐久的生涯。45岁的老克不确 定性的手肘问题让他昨天以7比1输给水手队。老克离开球场进行MRI的检查, 老托说 老克会错过一次先发, 也不确定老克能否在下周红袜的系列赛中出赛。老托说, 一 切要等检查结果才知道, 老克会错过一次先发, 也希望就只是这样。 2. Moose从2003美联冠军系列赛第七战为老克中继以来, 首次以後援出赛, 投了3又2/3 局被打七安丢了两分, 下一场也将顶替老克先发的位置, 他说: 你可能太理想化的希 望洋基可以从七月中直到季末打出七成的胜率, 但我们振作了起来, 现在在外卡领先, 最近四天我们特别是没有打得很好, 希望再来的比赛可以用更多活力和热情来比赛。 3. 失掉老克对先发轮值有重大影响, 除了Pettitte和小王在下半季拿下15胜4败外, 洋 基剩下很抖的Moose, 和两只菜鸟Hughes和Kennedy. 4. 老克投了很猛的六局打败红袜後, 手肘的问题便有点严重, 经过医生的治疗後决定 不打一针可体松。昨晚Gator和老克讨论後确定老克是健康的, 老克决定上场投球。 老托说, 老克比任何人都了解自己的身体, 而且就老托的经验, 一个投手上场投了 那麽久, 上到投手丘或多或少带着一些小伤痛, 尤其老克投了这麽多年了。所以老 托真的相信, 老克能应付的事不会是一次神鬼奇航记(uncharted waters)。" 5. 老克的情况就跟去年处理MO手肘的状况一样, 去年8月30日手肘问题困扰着Rivera, 但洋基并没有马上让他休息但那天MO解决老虎队後, 照过MRI後第二天下午又上场, 直到投後觉得肌肉紧绷才休息了三周。 6. 洋基其实事前就有让Moose顶替老克的准备, 但还是没让老克休息看医生, 而顺了老 克的意愿让他上场投球。老托说, 这不是什麽不寻常的事, 前三局投球状况还控 制的不错, 直到第四局老克才觉得手肘的毛病一直影响他。老克的球速并没有太大的 不同, 他有时还投出91, 92miles的速球。无论老克觉得有什麽不舒服, 他都没有 告诉Posada。Posada说老克的手肘除了昨天和对上红袜那次以外, 一直没什麽问题。 老克对上老虎时则有右脚破皮的问题, 老托赛前说老克右脚的问题困扰老克比较大, 手肘反而不是什麽大警讯。老托说: "告诉大家一些内幕, 年初时老克也有相同的问 题, 但老克自己处理好了也回来投球了，我相信他去年在太空人, 还有我猜他先前 在洋基队时, 也都有相同的问题, 但那毛病来了一下又好了。我不是说那是老了退 化的现象, 而是老克肌耐力的能力, 假如任何人有疑虑的话, 我们会先用MRI检测 再看情况怎样。" 7. 但这疑虑现在来了, 洋基只希望MRI的检测不会宣判老克的生涯就像Ryan一样就这 样令人惋惜地结束了。 8. 铃木一朗已经连七季打200支以上的安打, 历史上唯一有同样记录的只有Willie Keeler 和Wade Boggs, 一朗是史上第三人。 By TYLER KEPNER Published: September 4, 2007 Nolan Ryan is the only man in history with more strikeouts than Roger Clemens, another tall Texan who built himself in Ryan’s image. Ryan was 46 when he threw his last pitch, against the Seattle Mariners. A torn elbow ligament ended a career of remarkable durability. Clemens is 45, and his immediate future is uncertain after elbow problems forced him out of the Yankees’ 7-1 loss to the Mariners yesterday in the Bronx. Clemens left Yankee Stadium to have a magnetic resonance imaging test. Manager Joe Torre said he expected Clemens to miss his next start, and it also seemed doubtful that Clemens would return for next week’s series in Boston. “We’ll have to wait and see what the tests show,” Torre said. “But for safety’s sake, you’d probably skip him one time, anyway. Hopefully, that’s all it is.” The Yankees managed only five hits and a run over seven innings against Felix Hernandez, who helped the Mariners snap a nine-game losing streak and cut the Yankees’ lead in the American League wild-card race to one game. Clemens lasted four innings, allowing five runs and eight hits. Mike Mussina followed with the first regular-season relief appearance of his career — he also replaced Clemens in Game 7 of the 2003 A.L. Championship Series — and he will take Clemens’s turn in the rotation. The Yankees have lost three of four games since sweeping Boston at home last week. “We knew we weren’t going to play .700 ball from the middle of July until the end of the season; you’ve got to be realistic,” said Mussina, who gave up two runs and seven hits in three and two-thirds innings. “But we fought our way back, we’re leading the wild card now, and we want to stay after it. The last four days, especially, we haven’t played very well. We’ve been a little flat, it seems like. We’ve got to get our heads on right and play with some energy and some enthusiasm.” Losing Clemens is a significant blow to a wobbly rotation. Besides Chien-Ming Wang and Andy Pettitte, who are a combined 15-4 in the second half, the rotation now includes the struggling Mussina and the rookies Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy. Clemens beat the Red Sox with six strong innings Wednesday, but his elbow became a serious issue during and after that game. Clemens received treatment but decided against having a cortisone shot. Torre said the pitching coach Ron Guidry checked with Clemens yesterday to make sure he was healthy, and Clemens decided to pitch. “Roger certainly knows his body better than anybody else,” Torre said. “ And just from my experience, I don’t think there’s a pitcher who’s been around who doesn’t take some kind of baggage with him to the mound, a guy that’s been around a long time. So I have to really trust him that what he has to deal with is not uncharted waters.” The Clemens situation is similar to the handling of Mariano Rivera’s elbow problem last season. The Yankees knew that Rivera’s elbow was bothering him last Aug. 30 but did not immediately shut him down. Rivera pitched against Detroit that day, had an M.R.I. test the next afternoon and pitched that night, too. Only after that game was Rivera shut down for three weeks with a muscle strain. Yesterday, the Yankees were concerned enough about Clemens to have Mussina ready as an emergency starter. But instead of sending Clemens to a doctor and ordering him to rest, they deferred to Clemens’s wishes and let him pitch. “It’s not something that’s unusual,” Torre said. “The first three innings, it was a manageable situation for him. Then in the fourth inning, he said it started grabbing on him.” Clemens’s velocity was not noticeably different; he hit 90 and 91 miles an hour a few times. Whatever discomfort Clemens felt, he did not share it with catcher Jorge Posada. “No limitations at all,” said Posada, who added, “He didn’t talk one thing about his elbow.” Posada said Clemens’s elbow had not been an issue except yesterday and in the Boston game. The start before that, in Detroit, Clemens struggled with blisters on his right foot. Torre said Sunday that the foot concerned him more and stressed that the elbow problem was not alarming. “Let me tell you something: It’s happened earlier this year, too, the same type of thing, where he’s dealt with it and came back and pitched gems,” Torre said. “I’m sure last year in Houston — and my guess is, before he left here — it’s something that comes and goes. It doesn’t mean it’s debilitating. It’s muscular stuff. If the concern was there for everybody, there would have been an M.R.I. before this.” Now the concern is there, officially, and the Yankees can only hope that the M.R.I. test does not sentence Clemens to the same inglorious end as Nolan Ryan. INSIDE PITCH Ichiro Suzuki surpassed the 200-hit mark for the seventh season in a row. Only Willie Keeler and Wade Boggs have longer streaks. --

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