阿香本人一直在思考自己今年表现不佳的原因，而最近他暂时得到一个结论：会不会是 因为他今年对付打者改投了较多第二球路，却没有使用他最主要的 sinker 来解决打者？ 事实上阿香今年目前为止伸卡球的使用比例确实减少了一些，从去年的 73.4% 略降为 68.8%，滑球则一直都维持在20%左右，而变速球的使用增加了许多 (6.9%→11.7%)。 昨天阿香第10局被派上来守成，负责解决 Colby Rasmus、普神和假日。他一共投了16 球，其中14球是伸卡，2球是变速，而且那2颗变速球都是坏球，也就是说香最终成功的 用伸卡球取得了出局数。他让 Rasmus 打出滚地球出局，让普神击成右外野的飞球，对 假日他决定投得小心点，结果送出了保送。尽管後面的白肥生涯9次对决阿香击出过1支 全垒打，还得到3次保送，对战成绩其实并不差，不过香还是觉得对白肥他会投得比较 得心应手。当球数来到2-2，最後他塞了一颗偏好球带外侧一些的 sinker，主审比出了 手势，这是个三振。香成功守住4-4平手的局面，最後国民由 Espy 击出致胜的3分HR 得到这场比赛的胜利。 Anyway，光是一场比赛的结果证明不了什麽，但至少这是个好的开始。让我们继续观察 香是否真的能够彻底触底反弹，回到去年的那个身为全联盟最佳RP之一的那个他。 ******* 原文：http://tinyurl.com/3w3p96g As Sean Burnett's shaky season worsened, he often said he could not figure out why he could not recapture his form from last season, when he became one of baseball's best relievers. Over the past week, while his struggles kept him confined to the bullpen, he diagnosed one possible reason: He was letting hitters feast on his secondary pitches, and not forcing them to hit his sinker. 「I wasn't getting beat with my best pitch the last month and a half,」 Burnett said. 「If I was going to get beat, I was going to start getting beat with my sinker. It's something I've been thinking about the last week or so.」 Last year, according to date compiled by FanGraphs.com, Burnett threw his sinker 73.4 percent of the time. This year, that dropped to 68.8 percent. Burnett's usage of his slider has remained constant at almost 20 percent, but he had been throwing far more changeups – he threw them 6.9 percent of the time last year and 11.7 percent of the time this season. Last night, Burnett decided that would change. Of his 16 pitches, Burnett threw 14 sinkers, just two changeups. Both of those changeups were balls, intended only as a pitch a batter – he threw one to Holliday, one to Berkman – might chase out of the zone. To beat him, the Cardinals would have to hit his sinker. And they didn't. Burnett entered a tie game last night in the 10th inning with Colby Rasmus, Albert Pujols and Matt Holliday due up. He had not pitched in a week, when he faced one batter in San Diego and walked him. That was a day after he surrendered two runs late in a tie game against the Giants, which shot his ERA to 5.96. He still wanted the chance to pitch last night. 「I just stopped thinking,」 Burnett said. 「Things have been going so bad, I figured, 『Just go out there and throw it, see what happens.』 」 Burnett threw Rasmus two sinkers and induced an easy groundout to second. Up came Pujols. Manager Jim Riggleman could have had Burnett intentionally walk him. Or, with right-handed Matt Holliday coming, Riggleman could have summoned Todd Coffey. Instead, he stuck with Burnett. 「I feel I'm capable of pitching in that situation,」 Burnett said. 「I know I haven't thrown the ball very well. I don't deserve that type of situation. It was a big confidence boost to get left in there and see if I could get through it.」 He threw Pujols three sinkers, and the third, Pujols popped to right. Two outs. Holliday came up, and Burnett decided he would be careful. Lance Berkman was on deck, and Burnett decided he didn't want Holliday to beat him – he had faced Berkman nine times, and even though Berkman had hit a homer and walked three times in those meetings, Burnett felt comfortable facing him. Even after Burnett got ahead of Holliday, 1-2, he wanted to be careful, and he threw three straight balls, two of them very close. Up came Berkman, with the go-ahead run on first. With the count 2-2, Burnett fired a sinker over the outside corner, maybe just off the corner. The home plate ump pumped his arms, strike three. 「There was a couple pitches that could have went either way that I didn't get,」 Burnett said. 「All the stuff that's gone on this year, I deserved a pitch maybe a little off.」 Burnett had kept the game tied, and minutes later Danny Espinosa would crush his walk-off homer, end the game and give Burnett a win. A week ago, Burnett could not figure out what had gone wrong. Now, maybe, Burnett can use last night as a springboard and things will start going right. 「It's definitely a confidence boost to go through that 2-3-4-5 part of the order,」 Burnett said. 「Hopefully, I can get on a roll and get some confidence going. I've had good outings this year. I need to put a string of them together. But it's a good start.」 --

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