※ 引述《WangVictor (但愿人长久)》之铭言： : http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/sports/baseball/09yankees.html?_r=1& : hp&oref=slogin : Season Over: Yankees Out, and Torre ... 球季结束：洋基出局，托瑞也..... : Everything changes. Things fall apart. Summer does not last forever, though : it seemed that way at Yankee Stadium last night. It was 87 degrees at game : time, one last day of warmth, perhaps, for Joe Torre. 人有旦夕祸福，天下没有不散的宴席。虽然昨晚洋基球场比赛时的气温将近30度， 可是夏天不会永远赖着不走（樱野三加一.....），昨天也许就是托瑞最後一个温暖的日子了。 : For 12 seasons, there was sunshine on his shoulders. But now there is : darkness, and the condemned old ballpark is shuttered again for the winter. : The Yankees are a first-round playoff casualty for the third October in a : row, and Torre will almost certainly lose his job as manager. 在过去十二个球季以来，托瑞的肩膀上总是散发着阳光，不过现在只剩下黑暗， 而这个被判了死刑的古老球场也即将在冬天关上大门。 洋基连续三年在季後赛第一轮出局，托瑞极有可能也丢掉他总教练的饭碗。 : The Cleveland Indians eliminated the Yankees, 6-4, in Game 4 of their : American League division series. George Steinbrenner, the Yankees’ owner, : was said to be fuming in his office. 在美联分区系列赛的第四战里，土着队以六比四将洋基淘汰出局。 听说洋基队大头目老史在办公室里气到七窍生烟。 : The Indians will now play the Boston Red Sox in the A.L. Championship Series : starting Friday at Fenway Park. 土着队星期五晚上开始将和红袜对在芬威球场展开美联冠军战。 : Steinbrenner had already tied Torre’s future to the outcome of this series. : Torre became an icon — and a very wealthy man — while guiding Steinbrenner’ : s players to four World Series titles. But the last was seven years ago, a : drought too long for a famously impatient owner. 老史早就已经把托瑞的饭碗和这一系列战的结果挂勾在一起。 虽然托瑞过去带领老史的球员连续拿下四个世界冠军的头衔， 不但让他自己成为洋基队的代表人物，也让他赚进大把钞票， 不过，最後一个世界冠军已经是七年前的事了， 要再拿下一个世界大赛冠军，对老史这个极度没有耐心的老板来说， 实在是让他等太久了。 : Four of the unfulfilled seasons have come with the game’s best player, Alex : Rodriguez, anchoring the lineup. Rodriguez was 2 for 12 in the series until : adding a single and a homer after the Yankees had fallen far behind. He can : now opt out of his $25.2-million-a-year contract and is expected to seek : untold riches in a new contract. 虽然AROD过去四年来在队上的成绩都很棒，也成为整个打线的重心，但是洋基还是无法打到冠军赛。 AROD在这个系列战中，十二个打数只有两支安打，一直到洋基落後许多的时候， 才打出一支一垒安打和一支全垒打。 他可以动用选择权退出现在这份一年两千五百二十万美元的契约， 他也很可能可以开始找一份更优渥的新契约了。 : If he leaves, his last at-bat in pinstripes will be remembered as a harmless : fly ball to right field for the second out in the ninth with the potential : tying run on deck. 如果AROD离开了，球迷对他在洋基球队最後一击的回忆，将会是在第九局一个打向右外野的小飞球， 这个小飞球虽然造成了洋基队的第二个出局，但也可能是代表追平分就要上来了。 : Two mainstays from the championship years, Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada, : can also become free agents. Keeping both, and Rodriguez, will be expensive : but affordable for the Yankees, whose business model thrives despite repeated : playoff failures. 另外，在过去洋基拿下世界大赛冠军时扮演中流砥柱的两个人：MO和小波， 这个球季结束之後也会变成自由球员。如果要把他们两个，还有AROD都留下来， 虽然要花一大笔钱，不过洋基还是负担得起，因为洋基队还是赚了一大笔钞票， 只是在季後赛里一直被淘汰罢了...^_^" : In his first two at-bats, Rodriguez struck out twice on six pitches against : the soft-tossing Paul Byrd, who fanned no others in five innings. But other : batters were worse in the series — notably Derek Jeter, who hit .176 and : made the first out in the ninth. AROD在前两次打击时，只面对保罗投过来的六个小软球，就被三振两次。保罗在前五局里没有三振其他洋基球员。 不过其他洋基球员在这系列赛里表现得更烂， 尤其是队长，整个系列战打击率只有一成七六，同时也是第九局的第一个出局者。 : Most damning for the Yankees, though, was the performance of their ace, : Chien-Ming Wang. The major league leader in victories over the past two : seasons, Wang was 0-2 with a 19.06 earned run average against Cleveland. : In Game 1, Wang matched his career high by allowing eight runs. In Game 4, he : set a career low for innings pitched, with one. Wang gave up two runs in the : first and was charged with two more in the second after leaving with no outs : and the bases loaded. Mike Mussina, who replaced him, allowed two runs in : four and two-thirds innings. 不过洋基队最该死的，还是ACE小王的表现。小王虽然在过去两个球季的胜场虽然位居大联盟第一， 但是在面对土着队的两场比赛，却都输掉了，ERA高达19.06。 在地一战中，小王掉了八分，平了他职业生涯单场失分记录； 在第四战时，小王则创下自己职业生涯投球局数最短的纪录：只投了一局。 小王在第一局丢了两分，第二局退场时，留下满垒没人出局，後来老木又帮他丢了两分。 接替小王上场的老木，投了四又三分之二局，只丢了两分。 : The decision to start Wang on three days’ rest, for just the second time in : his career, could haunt Torre. He had resisted the urge to do it last fall, : and Jaret Wright lost the elimination game. With Wang another year removed : from his rookie shoulder problems, Torre trusted him. 要不要在小王休息三天之後就派他上场的决定，一直困扰着托瑞。 托瑞去年就一直不想做出这个决定，所以才让莱特少爷输掉关键赛。 不过在小王摆脱菜鸟年的肩伤後，托瑞决定相信小王。 : He also hoped that, with short rest, Wang might be just tired enough for his : sinkers to fade properly. In Game 1, Wang had been too strong and the pitch : did not sink, causing him to abandon his game plan and throw more sliders and : changeups. 托瑞也希望经过短暂的休息，小王的手臂也许就够疲惫，能够投出更会跑的sinker。 在第一站时，小王的手臂太有力，所以他的球都掉不下来， 小王只好放弃他的作战计画，然後丢了一大堆的slider和changeup。 : But the short layoff, and the comfort of pitching at home, did not change : much for Wang. Again, his sinkers were not sinking. 不过，虽然经过短暂的休息，小王在主场的练习也很舒服， 小王的表现却没有多大差别。 同样的，小王的sinker又掉不下来了。 : Grady Sizemore led off the game with a home run into the bleachers in : right-center field. Travis Hafner took a sinker to the opposite field for a : one-out single, and he scored when Wang missed with a pitch up in the strike : zone to Jhonny Peralta, who singled to center. : The Yankees wasted a scoring chance in their half of the first, when they put : two runners on with one out for Rodriguez, who whiffed on an 86-mile-an-hour : fastball. Posada then flied out to left fielder Kenny Lofton, who made a : sliding grab. 赛斯摩尔在第一局首打席就夯了一发飞到右外野看台的全垒打。 海夫纳接着又把小王的一颗sinker打到相反方向，然後配拉塔又来一支安打，把海夫纳送回本垒。 洋基队在一局下浪费了得分机会，虽然有两个人在垒上，可是AROD被一颗86英里的快速球给三振， 然後小波打到左外野被落夫顿美技接杀。 : Lofton was dynamic in the series, and his bunt attempt in Game 3 caused a : lurching Roger Clemens to aggravate his strained hamstring. Lofton’s success : seemed to almost mock Torre, who never wanted Lofton in 2004 and did not get : along with him. 落夫顿在这系列战中相当英猛，他在第三站的触击让老克跑来接球， 结果反而使老克的伤势变得更加严重。 落夫顿的优异表现就好像是在嘲笑托瑞一样， 因为托瑞在2004年时根本不想要让落夫顿来到洋基， 而且也跟落夫顿相处得不好。 : The Yankees signed Lofton that season because Steinbrenner was envious of : Juan Pierre, a speedy leadoff hitter who tormented the Yankees for Florida in : the 2003 World Series. Steinbrenner no longer exerts such direct influence : over player moves, leaving General Manager Brian Cashman to make those calls. : But his public threat to fire Torre if he lost this series, which was : reported Sunday, showed that it was still Steinbrenner’s decision on the : manager. Cashman talked him out of firing Torre after last year’s : first-round loss, but with Torre unsigned for 2008, it is easy now for : Steinbrenner to make a clean break. 洋基队之所以在那个球季签下落夫顿，是因为马林鱼那个速度飞快的黄皮耶在2003年世界大赛时， 让洋基吃了不少苦头，所以老史觉得很嫉妒，所以才签下落夫顿。 不过後来老史就不再这样影响球队买卖球员的运作，把球队交给现金人来管。 不过老史在星期天威胁托瑞要是不赢球就走人的公开说法， 也证明老史才是球队幕後的老大。 去年洋基在季後赛第一轮被淘汰出局後，现金人说服老史不要开除托瑞， 但是因为托瑞没有签下明年的契约，所以老史现在可以很容易就赶他出门。 : “I do respect the fact that he is the boss,” Torre said before Game 4. “It : ’s not about how much money he pays me. It’s that he trusted me with his : team, and I take that as a very serious and personal responsibility. And I : hope that I do well enough for him to be proud of what we do.” : The Yankees failed to win the A.L. East this year for the first time in a : decade, but their effort to capture the wild card was a source of pride for : Torre. The Yankees won 73 of their final 112 games to overcome a horrid start : that had put Torre’s job in jeopardy in late April. 托瑞在第四战前说：「我很尊重他是老板的事实。这跟他付我多少钱没有关系，这是因为他相信我和他的球队。 我也把这个看成是非常严肃且与个人攸关的责任。我希望我可以表现得够好， 让他为我们的表现感到骄傲。」 今年是洋基十年以来第一次无法赢得美联东区冠军，但是他们争取外卡的努力，还是让托瑞感到相当光荣。 洋基在最後112场球赛里赢得了73场，终於弥补了球季初的糟糕表现， 洋基那时候的烂表现，让托瑞很有可能在四月底时就。 : It is trendy now to call the postseason a crapshoot, where the unforeseen — : like a swarm of midges from Lake Erie disrupting Game 2 — can obscure which : team is really best. But Steinbrenner has never believed that, and when Torre : won four titles so quickly, he set an almost impossibly high standard for : himself. 现在很流行把季後赛看成是一场冒险，就好像第二战时有一群小虫从伊利湖飞来捣蛋， 可以让最赞的球队表现失常一样，不过老史根本不相信这套说法。 当托瑞在短短时间内就拿下四座世界大赛冠军时，托瑞就已经为自己立下了遥不可及的高标准。 : The Yankees’ last pennant was in 2003, when Aaron Boone smashed an : extra-inning homer to cap a stirring comeback against the Red Sox in Game 7 : of the A.L. Championship Series. The scoreboard played those highlights : before the bottom of the sixth last night and, as if on cue, Robinson Cano : led off with a homer to chase Byrd. 洋基最近一次拿下美联冠军是在2003年， 那时候英雄阿龙蹦在延长赛中夯了一支鼓动全队士气的全垒打，洋基队最後在美联冠军赛第七战中气走红袜。 昨天晚上在六局下开打之前，计分版上也有播放这些精彩片段，而这些片段就好像是信号一样， 小Q马上就夯了保罗鸟一支全垒打。 : It cut Cleveland’s lead to 6-2, and during a pitching change, the scoreboard : showed Tino Martinez, sitting by the home dugout, just behind the former : Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. Soon, the crowd was standing and roaring. : But with runners at the corners and one out against Rafael Perez, Jeter : grounded into a double play, ending the inning. The crowd grew silent, then : booed when Kyle Farnsworth came into the game in the seventh. 这支全垒打让土着队的领先分数只剩下四分（六比二）， 在土着队更换投手的时候，计分版上又拍到Tino Martinez就跟前纽约市长珠利安妮一起坐在洋基休息区後面。 这时候全场观众开始起立鼓噪。 虽然那时候只有一人出局，但是有人在垒，但是在陪瑞资投球下， 队长打出了DP，这局就这样结束了。 全场球迷慢慢安静了下来，然後当放肆火在第七局上场时，开始boo他。 --

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