With Playoffs Ahead, It’s Not Easy Being Andy Phillips September 27, 2007, 8:41 pm By Tyler Kepner Tags: Andy Phillips, Doug Mientkiewicz, Yankees 重点: 兴奋之余，还是有令人落泪的情节 1. 当洋基队员开会讨论季後赛奖金分配的事宜，决定他们应该分给待在出赛名单未满整个 球季的球员多少奖金时，Andy Phillips却只能在球员休息室里踱着步走来走去。那时 让我感到吃惊，因为我的直觉告诉我Phillips是一直都在出赛球员名单里的。2006年 他整季都是洋基队的一员，毕竟这样让人容易忘掉本季前两个半月他是待在3A的球队。 你将会回忆起Josh Phelps在开幕战时才是一垒手。 2. 我走了过去和Andy闲聊，他就是那种你遇过很友善的大联盟选手，一位从Louisville Slugger公司派来的销售代表走了过来，问他需不需要定制季後赛用的球棒。9月2日那 天手腕骨折的Phillips礼貌地告诉这位销售代表，他受了伤所以不需要任何新的球棒。 那家伙却问道: "嗯，或许有时候会需要呢?" Phillips回答说: "不，谢谢。我现在只 是个啦啦队长，除非你有制造木造的啦啦队长专用彩带球。" 当他说这些时面带微笑, 但是你可以分辨出Andy现在其实没有那麽自在。他打出0.292的打击而且有绝佳的守备 能力，在今年夏天洋基奋力地提升战蹟时稳住了一垒手位置。而现在洋基向季後赛前进 时，他却受了伤。 3. 受伤当然是一直都会发生，但是却让Phillips花了很多时间才从小联盟爬了上来。再加 　 上他自己遇到的一些磨难，他的太太和癌症对抗着及他的母亲从严重的车祸中复原过来 ，让他变成很有同理心会考虑别人立场的人。就像你可能想到的，周三在用香槟庆祝场 合里他似乎是有点在抑制自己感伤的情绪。 4. 但是Phillips的受伤，至少帮Doug Mientkiewicz打开了一条可以发光发亮的路。从 Phillips受伤後，Mientkiewicz的打击率是0.415，让他在7月初手腕受伤後可以对他 休息的这段夏天作出补偿。Mientkiewicz--不是Phillips，对於教练Joe Torre已经 变成打季後赛时不可或缺的球员。Mientkiewicz说: "我已经把最後这两周比赛的每 个打席都当成就像在打季後赛，因为我知道我必须让Torre的心中一直对我的名字感 到新鲜。他给了我机会上场去打球，我欠他的就是每次上场都必须是成功的打击。" When the Yankees held their playoff shares meeting yesterday, deciding how much of the winner’s pot they should give to players who spent less than the full season on the roster, Andy Phillips milled about in the clubhouse. That surprised me for a moment, because my instincts tell me Phillips is always around. He was a full-season Yankee in 2006, after all, and it is easy to forget he spent the first two and a half months of this season in Class AAA. Josh Phelps, you will recall, was the first baseman on opening day. I went over and chatted with Andy, as friendly a major leaguer as you will meet, and a representative from Louisville Slugger came by to ask for his bat order for the playoffs. Phillips, who broke his wrist on Sept. 2, politely told him that he was injured and did not need any new bats. “Well, maybe just in case?” the guy asked. “No, thanks,” Phillips said. “I’m just a cheerleader now. Maybe if you make wooden pompoms.” He smiled as he said it, but you could tell it is not easy being Andy Phillips right now. He batted .292 and played terrific defense, holding down first base as the Yankees clawed back to contention this summer. Now they are headed to the playoffs, and he is hurt. Injuries happen all the time, of course, but given Phillips’ long climb through the minors -– plus his personal ordeal, with his wife overcoming cancer and his mother recovering from a serious car crash -– he is a sympathetic figure. He seemed a bit subdued in the Champagne celebration on Wednesday, as you might expect. But Phillips’ injury, at least, has cleared the way for Doug Mientkiewicz to shine. He has hit .455 since Phillips’ injury, making up for a lost summer after his own wrist injury in early June. Mientkiewicz -– not Phillips -– has become indispensable to Manager Joe Torre. “I’ve been taking each at-bat like it’s a playoff at-bat for the last two weeks, because I know that I have to keep my name fresh in Joe’s mind,” Mientkiewicz said. “He’s given me the opportunity to go out there and play, and I owe it to him to be successful every time.” --

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