At the start of the season, there was a lot of concern as to whether or not the Rays offense would be able to score enough runs to support what seemed to be a solid pitching staff. With their biggest offseason signings on offense consisting of James Loney and Kelly Johnson, it seemed as though the Rays may suffer through another season where they simply were unable to score enough runs to support a playoff push. 在球季刚开始的时候,很多人都在关心光芒的打线是否可以给予坚固的轮值足够的火力 支援。在他们大动作的签了James Lonely和Kelly Johnson之後,似乎看起来光芒也许 没有足够的攻击能力可以撑过另一个进入季後赛的球季。 Then the seemingly unexpected happened – these players began to hit. Loney was consistently amongst the leaders in batting average, and was in the running with Evan Longoria as the most productive bat in the Rays lineup. Johnson was hitting home runs and playing a bit of a Ben Zobrist role, shuffling between left, second and third while playing solid defense and producing. After a slow start, Yunel Escobar‘s bat came to life, and seemingly developed a knack for delivering key hits. The catching position, long a black hole of offensive ineptitude, was providing solid results with the platoon of Jose Lobaton and Jose Molina. With the addition of Wil Myers to what had been a surprisingly solid lineup, it seemed as though the runs would continue to score in bunches. 然後奇怪的事情发生了,他们的打击火热，Lonely有着全队最高的打击率,成为全队打击 效率最高的打者支持着Longoria,Kelly Johnson扮演着Zobrist的角色不断的打出全垒打 ,并在二三垒和左外野提供兼顾的守备。在这之後Yuneal Escobar的棒子也复活了,似乎 找到的打出关键安打的方法。捕手的火力一直是光芒所缺乏的,但是今年Jose Lobaton 和Jose Molina给予了光芒强大的打击火力。在加上惊喜的Wil Myers,今年的打击似乎 可以源源不绝的供应。 For a while, that continued to happen. The Rays found themselves with one of the top offenses in baseball at the All-Star Break, ranking sixth in runs scored and OPS, while placing fourth in on base percentage. A big reason for the Rays new found offensive prowess was the lack of strikeouts – the Rays were in the bottom third, having struck out just 669 times. That played into Joe Maddon‘s concept of ‘moving the baseball,’ a major part of the ‘swarm ’ offense that Maddon had been looking for. 这持续了一段时间,光芒在明星赛前有着顶级的打击火力,和排名第六的得分跟OPS,第四 名的上垒率。另外光芒在攻击上有一个新发现,他们的被三振数只有669次排名联盟倒数 第九。这是Maddon"移动棒球"中主要的概念"大量攻击",这也是他一直在寻找的。 Yet, that has all come apart since the All-Star Break. While the Rays are still in the bottom third in strikeouts, and remain in the top half in on base percentage, OPS and batting average, they have fallen to 27th in baseball in runs scored, with their 137 runs being the fewest in the American League. While the overall numbers pre and post Break are similar, the results have not been the same. 终究,在明星赛後,美梦破碎了,虽然三振数还是倒数第三,保持着平均的上垒率和OPS,但是 他们的得分变成联盟倒数第四名,137分得分在美联敬陪末座。 The reason is that the Rays have not had the same magic with runners in scoring position as they had at the start of the year. Prior to the All-Star Break, the Rays had the best batting average in baseball with runners in scoring position, and were second in the month of July with a .267 mark. However, those numbers have dropped precipitously during the month of August, as the Rays have only hit .228 in that situation over this month. That decline helps explain why the Rays offense, which had been amongst the best scoring offenses in the game, has suddenly found themselves as harmless as a baby sheep. Lobaton has seemingly been the only player that has been able to come through consistently in the clutch over the past month, with a memorable game winning triple and a home run in the same weekend. Is this a sign of players such as Loney and Johnson regressing, or is it just an inopportune slump? 原因就是光芒不能展现像刚开季的时候得点圈有人的那种令人惊奇的打击能力,在明星赛 前光芒有最好的得点圈打击率,在七月的时候以.267排名第二。然而,这个数据在八月的时 候出乎意料的下降了,这个月光芒的得点圈打击率只有.228。这就解释了为什麽光芒的攻 击能力会从最好的得分能力,变得像一只无害的小绵羊。Lobaton似乎是唯一保持住,没有 让成绩下滑的球员了,在同一及周末打出了让人记忆犹新的再见三垒安打和再见轰。这是 Lonely和Johnson衰退的徵兆吗?还是这只是个不合时宜的大低潮? Considering how the Rays have been able to hit in virtually every other situation since the Break, it appears as though this is just a minor blip on the radar. However, these struggles have coincided with a rough month for Tampa, as the Rays have gone 11-14 to fall to the second Wild Card spot.Yet, it would seem as though the Rays luck would even out. As hot as they were at the start of the season with runners in scoring position, they have been equally cold in the past month. Should this even itself out, the Rays offense may be back to close to the same level of production that it had been during the first half of the year. 想想光芒在连胜的时候是多麽的能打,这发生得就好像是雷达上的一小点。然而这些挣扎 同时让光芒这个月过得很难受,11胜14败的成绩让光芒掉落至外卡二。看起来光芒的运气 似乎恢复正常了,他们在连胜时期的得点圈火烫程度就像现在连败时期的得点圈死屍程度 。他们应该把它分散吗?也许光芒的攻击可以趋近於上半季的那种水准。 It may seem as though the bottom is falling out on the Rays offense. However, a correction may be just around the corner. 光芒的攻击似乎已经跌落谷底,然而,也许他们现在正要开始止跌回升了。 http://ppt.cc/M8iP -- ╭ █◣◢█ ╮ ╭═════╮ ╭═ theanswer3═◢◆◢◆════╮ ║ ╰═══╯ ◢ ◢╰═════╯ ◢▌ I was hoping. ╴TB ║ ║ ████ ◢█◣ ◢▌█ ◢▌█ ◢█◣ ◣█◣ ██◣ ◢█◣ █ 〝 □-□ ║ ║ █◥◤█ █◢█ █◢█ █◢ ◢█ █ █◥ ◤║ ║ ◥ ◤ ◥◤◥ ◥◤◥ ◥◤◥ ◥█◤ ◥▌◤ ◥█◤ ◥◤◥ ◆◤◆◤ △ △ ║ ╰═════════════════════════════════ #70 ══╯ --

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