※ [本文转录自 CMWang 看板] 作者: xiemark (aisinjuro) 看板: CMWang 标题: [外电] NEARLY PERFECT AT FENWAY(NYPost) 时间: Sat Apr 12 17:25:36 2008 http://www.nypost.com/seven/04122008/photos/sports055a.jpg 王与Moose互相拥抱 MIKE LIKES IT: Today's Yankees starter, Mike Mussina, hugs Chien-Ming Wang (40) after the righty's complete-game two-hitter last night helped the Yankees beat the Red Sox 4-1 in the opener of a three-game series at Fenway Park. NEARLY PERFECT AT FENWAY By MIKE VACCARO April 12, 2008 -- BOSTON - From the beginning, Jose Molina could see what no one else in the Fenway Park crowd of 37,624 could see, because he had the best view, squatting only 60 feet and 6 inches away from Chien-Ming Wang's fingertips. Everyone else could see that Wang was awfully damn good last night. Molina knew he was even better than that. "Put it this way," the Yankees' backup catcher told a couple of friends outside the Yankees clubhouse, before facing the usual Bosox-Yanks media scrum. "Tonight was a night I was glad to be catching him, and not hitting against him." Wang is already off to a beautiful start to the season, with a 3-0 record and a 1.23 ERA. Yet it's entirely possible - likely even - that he could go the rest of the season, no matter how many games he wins, and never approach the dominance and the craftsmanship he threw at the Red Sox last night. Wang went the distance in a 4-1 victory, throwing only 93 pitches and was literally one eyelash and one backside away from possibly throwing a perfect game. "He was at the top of his game," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said, "and when he is, that's something to see, it really is." It really was. Yanks-Bosox is always a marquee matter, and the first meeting of the year always has something of a secular holiday feel to it - even if the Sox were missing Mike Lowell and the Yankees were minus Derek Jeter, even if the Yankees have spent the last week scuffling against the upstart likes of the Rays and the Royals and the Sox have been spinning their wheels while waiting for David Ortiz's painful wheels to turn him back into the old Papi. Nobody believes the newspaper this morning, which shows the Orioles still clinging to first place in the AL East, which shows the Bosox in last place, behind the Rays and the Jays in addition to the O's and the Yanks. It's early. It's early. It's early. That's all anyone says in April. That's all anyone is supposed to say in April. Still. "This early in the season," Boston manager Terry Francona said, "everyone is still feeling each other out, seeing where everyone is positioned." Right now, Wang is positioned as the ascendant arm in the entire league, doing what he did at a park that has given him little other than horror and helplessness throughout his career. When he walked onto the field for the bottom of the first last night, his career numbers at Fenway Park looked like this: two wins, three losses, and an ERA (6.17) that looked like the assists average for an average NBA point guard. Then he blitzed through the first inning 1-2-3. And he blitzed through the second inning 1-2-3. And the third inning. And on into the fourth, when Alex Rodriguez made a splendid play to snare a Dustin Pedroia scorcher down the line but then threw too high, Jason Giambi's foot hitting the bag a split-second after Pedroia's. It was ruled an error. The perfect game was gone, but the perfection remained intact for another inning, even as it seemed the Bosox were finally catching up to Wang. Manny Ramirez hit a rope that Bobby Abreu caught up to in right field. Kevin Youkilis hit another shot to right, and Abreu caught that one, too. So when J.D. Drew smoked one to right, and Abreu drifted back . . . "I had it all the way," Abreu said. "It should have been my ball." Would have been, too, but as Abreu jumped, his rear end collided with the masslottery.com sign. The ball nicked off his glove, fell into the bullpen. "If we lose the game," Abreu said, "I feel terrible. As it was, I felt terrible, because I thought it might cost him the no-hitter." It didn't. The Yankees cashed in on some nine o'clock lightning, gave Wang a lead, and the way he was pitching that was going to be plenty. At the end, he looked unimpressed, as always. He was the only one. "When he pitches like that," Molina said, "you think anything is possible." And for a while last night, anything was. [email protected] -- ___ ___ /| | /\__\ |:| | ___ /:/ _/_ |:| | /\__\ /:/ /\__\ __|:|__| /:/__/ /:/ /:/ _/_ /::::\__\_____ /::\ \ /:/_/:/ /\__\ --

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