The New York Times Rodriguez in a Comfort Zone at Bat and in the Clubhouse A-Rod不管在打击区还是更衣室都感觉到很舒服. By PAT BORZI Published: September 11, 2007 KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 10 — In the visitors’ clubhouse at Kauffman Stadium late Sunday afternoon, Alex Rodriguez tried to catch Hideki Matsui’s eye near a back hallway. Matsui did not see him, so Rodriguez walked over, gently touched Matsui’s right biceps to get his attention, then took an exaggerated uppercut swing. 在皇家的客场更衣室里, A-Rod想要让松井往这边看过来. 松井没看到他, 所以A_Rod温柔地碰触松井的右边二头肌引起他的注意, 然後向他挥了一个 夸张的上勾拳. Matsui’s face twisted in frustration as Rodriguez talked to him, and the interpreter Rogelio Kahlon jumped in to facilitate. Matsui has been slumping lately, opening his front shoulder and trying to pull the ball too much — he has 3 hits in his past 27 at-bats — and Rodriguez was trying to offer help and support. 当A_Rod跟松井交谈时,他的脸因挫折而扭曲, 翻译马上跳过来解危. 松井最近打很烂, A_Rod想要帮他. This is a conversation Rodriguez probably would not have initiated with Matsui last season. Almost daily now, Rodriguez says he finally feels comfortable in his surroundings and accepted by his teammates after four successful yet turbulent seasons as a Yankee. 在上个球季, A_Rod不太可能主动对松井开始这样的谈话. A-Rod说:他现在几乎每天都对周遭环境和队友感到很舒服, 经过四年成功的洋基球季之後. He engages Robinson Canó daily in animated conversations in the clubhouse. When Rodriguez homers — as he has in his past five games — his teammates rotate their left shoulders and arms in a curious salute. (Rodriguez jammed his left shoulder on a headfirst slide last week; he rotates his shoulder to keep it loose. Teammates had started to needle him for his awkward feet-first slides.) 每当A_Rod打全垒打, 队友就会模仿他的动作向他致敬. “I’ve been in a good frame of mind all year,” Rodriguez said. "我一整年心情都很好." A-Rod说. Jorge Posada, whose own terrific season has been overshadowed by Rodriguez’ s, said he noticed the difference in Rodriguez during spring training. Posada说他在春训时有注意到A_Rod变的不一样了. “I thought he was more comfortable with everything,” said Posada, who is hitting .336. “He’s used to the whole thing now, and he’s having fun with it. He took it upon himself to have more fun and enjoy the game, and a lot of good things are happening.” "我认为他对一切都感到更自在了." Posada说. "他已经适应所有事物了, 他懂得从中找到乐趣. 他承担了责任, 享受上场比赛, 好的事情就接连不断发生." Manager Joe Torre said, “This is different from last year, when he internalized a lot.” "这跟去年的情况不一样, 那时把他常常把问题放在心里." Rodriguez’s streak of five consecutive games with a home run ties the best of his career. According to Trent McCotter of the Society for American Baseball Research, Rodriguez and Roger Maris are the only Yankees in the last 50 years to have at least five total bases in five consecutive games; Maris did it from August 12-16, 1961. Tino Martinez was the last Yankee to homer in five straight games, May 7-11, 2005. A-Rod连续五场全垒打, 平了个人最佳记录. A-Rod和Roger Maris是过去五十年里唯二在连续五场比赛有至少五个垒打数的洋基球员. Maris在1961年8月12-16日完成这项记录. Tino Martinez是上一个连续五场比赛打出全垒打的洋基球员, 2005年5月7-11日. With 19 games to play and the Yankees holding a relatively comfortable margin leading Detroit by three and a half games in the wild-card race, Rodriguez leads the major leagues with 52 homers and 140 runs batted in, making him a leading candidate to be the most valuable player in the American League. He has 8 homers and 15 R.B.I. in eight games this month, and is batting .533 (16 for 30). His hitting has boosted the Yankees to the cusp of the postseason after a dreadful start. A_Rod是目前美联MVP的领先候选人. A-Rod的傲人成绩. Rodriguez is finishing the season nearly the same way he did in 2005. That year, he was the American League player of the month for August, then carried the surging Yankees through September to win the M.V.P. award. He had 20 homers and 49 R.B.I. in his final 58 games, going 4 for 5 with his 48th homer on the final day of the season as the Yankees clinched the A.L. East title in Boston. A-Rod的表现和他在2005年很像, 最後他赢得该年MVP. But Rodriguez’s 2-for-15 performance in a division series loss to the Angels overshadowed his regular-season accomplishments for many. A-Rod对天使2-15的表现让他留下阴影. Last year’s division series against Detroit, when Rodriguez went 1 for 14 and Torre dropped him to eighth in the batting order in Game 4, proved equally humiliating. Torre said, “I never want to be at that point again.” 上个球季, 在A_Rod对老虎1-14之後, Torre第四场把他调到第八棒, 这对A_Rod是一项羞辱. Torre说:"我不想要再经历这件事." But could it happen? Last weekend the Royals made it easier for Rodriguez by refusing to pitch around him. After he hit his 52nd homer in the first inning Sunday, his fourth homer of the series, he struck out swinging three times in his final four at-bats. 上周日在A-Rod打出第52号全垒打之後, 接下来皇家就不再让A_Rod有好球打了. Teams may not pitch him so aggressively in the playoffs, even if Matsui, who bats behind him in the fifth slot, comes out of his slump. 就算下一棒松井走出低潮, 其他球队在季後赛还是可能不积极面对A-Rod的打击. “The hardest thing to get across to fans, the public, whatever, is they’re not going to let him beat the other team,” said Yankees first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz, also Rodriguez’s teammate at Westminster Christian High School in Miami. “They’re not going to give him the opportunity. "球迷没办法理解的是他们不会让他打败其他球队." Mientkiewicz说.(他们高中是队友) "他们不会让他有这个机会." Mientkiewicz added: “He has to let the other team work around him and let somebody else beat them. When that happens, we’re dangerous. It’s really up to us to make sure we do a good job, to get him in a situation to make him successful. He can’t do it alone.” Mientkiewicz补充说:"他必须让其他球队跟他周旋, 让队友打败他们. 当这种事情发生时, 我们是危险的. 我们必须确认我们做好自己的工作, 让他有机会表现他成功的一面. 他没办法一个人完成." Rodriguez is understandably reluctant to talk about the playoffs until, and if, the Yankees clinch. Mientkiewicz said they discussed last season over dinner Saturday, and Rodriguez’s distasteful memory of his finish continues to drive him. A-Rod不想谈论季後赛的事, 除非他们已经进入季後赛. Mientkiewicz说他们星期六晚餐时有讨论过上个球季, 那些不好的回忆还逼迫着A-Rod. “He never wants to go through what he went through last year,” Mientkiewicz said. “Thirty-five homers and 121 R.B.I. is not a bad year, but in his mind, he failed." "他不想要再重覆上个球季经历过的事."Mientkiewicz说. "35支全垒打和121分打点不是很差的一年, 但他只记得他失败了." “He pushed himself so hard to do this. I think if you asked him if this is what he envisioned. ... “He never forgot what it felt like last year,” Mientkiewicz said. INSIDE PITCH The Yankees have still not announced whether Roger Clemens successfully completed a side session in Houston on Saturday. The team spokesman Jason Zillo said he had no new information. Clemens received a cortisone shot in his right elbow last week, and the session would have been his first attempt to throw off a mound since then. 洋基还是没有宣布:Clemens星期六有没有完成他的练习? 球队发言人说他没有新的讯息. 这次练习是他在打了一针cortisone之後, 首次站上投手丘. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 有错烦指正 谢谢! --

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