写在前面： 对红袜迷来说，Curt Schilling是上天赐给我们最棒的礼物，不只他在04年的来到就立刻 帮助了红袜拿下86年来第一次的世界大赛冠军，也不只是他来到红袜的4年间（04-07年） 就帮助红袜拿下2次世界大赛冠军；而是因为他的那种不屈的精神意志，不仅在04年美联 冠军赛第6场写下血袜传奇，让红袜完成史上从来没有人做到过的超级大逆转100年来的 死敌洋基队，彻底打破了贝比鲁斯的魔咒，抚慰了新英格兰地区球迷的伤痛，同时，他也 让一支总是在最後关头会找到输球方法的红袜摆脱了过去的悲情形象，重新让Red Sox Nation找回属於自己的自信光采。 虽然就如同他自己所说的，或许他真的无法在最後穿着红袜的球衣退休，但不管如何。 身为一个红袜迷，愿谨以这篇文章的翻译，谢谢Schilling为红袜所做的一切，也希望透 过这麽一篇翻译，让更多人了解到这个可能是史上季後赛最强投手的光荣事蹟。 (若翻的不好也请大家见谅!!) By 译者E.J 2007/10/31 Where there's Schill, there's a way in October 只要有Schilling，就有办法在十月（指季後赛）拿到胜利 By Jayson Stark ESPN.com http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2007/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=3080113 BOSTON -- He isn't even the ultimate October warrior in his own starting rotation anymore. But October is still Curt Schilling's kind of month. 他已经不再是每年在十月的那个先发的终极战士了。 但十月仍然是「那种Curt Schilling的」月份。 His socks are 100 percent blood-free these days. But October is still Curt Schilling's kind of month. 这些天他的袜子100%没有血在上面。 但十月仍然是「那种Curt Schilling的」月份。 He's a man whose first World Series win, 14 Octobers ago, was a 147-pitch complete-game shutout. Now, on the other hand, he's a man who had to huff and puff his way through 5 1/3 innings and 82 pitches Thursday night to add another Series victory to his ever-growing collection. But October is still Curt Schilling's kind of month. 他曾是那个在14年前的十月，用147完投完封对手的人，而现在他则是那个必须要不断 吹着气用82球投到5又2/3局，才能在他至今仍不断增加中的胜场收集品中增加一胜。 但十月仍然是「那种Curt Schilling的」月份。 Oh, we know -- and he knows -- that the Red Sox's 2-1 victory over Colorado in Game 2 of this World Series won't go down in the October ledger as "The Curt Schilling Show." Not when you stack it up against Bloody Sock Month, or October 2001, or the astounding 1993 NLCS, a series in which Schilling somehow won an LCS MVP award without even winning one frigging game. 是的我们知道──而且他自己也知道──红袜在今年世界大赛第二战的2比1击败落矶 的比赛并不会在十月的纪录表被记载成「The Curt Schilling Show」 But there was still something about him, even in a game like this, that sums up why Curt Schilling is as comfortable on this dance floor as any pitcher who ever lived. 但即便是这样的一场比赛，仍然有一些东西可以说明，为什麽Schilling就跟过去一样 在那种（季後赛）舞台上可以跟任何一位投手相比之下也不会逊色。 "This is the only place," he told ESPN.com afterward, "where you can find out how far you can push yourself, because it's the ultimate pass-or-fail test. There is no gray area in the postseason. You can have a mediocre season. But you can't have a mediocre postseason. You either win it all or lose it all. So when you get in this situation, it's the ultimate pass-or-fail exam. 「这里是唯一的一个地方」他在赛後告诉ESPN.com「可以让你知道你知道你的极限在 哪，因为这是一个终极的通过或失败的试链。季後赛没有任何灰色的模糊空间。你可以 有一个平凡的季赛，但你却不能有一个平凡的季後赛，你不是全赢就是全输。所以当你 在进入到季後赛，这就是一个终极的通过或失败的考试」 "So many people are afraid to fail, or freeze up in games like this or at times like this. But this is liberating for me, because it's a way -- regardless of what happens, April through September -- to redefine everything anybody ever thought about you. So I look at this as an opportunity, as opposed to something to fear." 「很多人会害怕失败或在这种比赛这种时候怯场。但这种时後反而会让我释放自己， 因为这是一个让所有人重新定义你的机会──不管你在四月到九月间发生了什麽事情。 所以相对於害怕恐惧，我将那看成是一个机会。」 But these nights are more than just opportunities to recast public opinion or reshape his own personal legend. At this point, they're also opportunities for Curt Schilling to rewrite another line or three in the October history books. So here come the lines he rewrote Thursday: 但这些比赛不只是有机会让大众重新定义对他的看法或重塑他个人的传奇，在这个时间 点，这些比赛也是Schilling在季後赛历史簿上再画上另一条或三条线的机会。这里， 是他在星期四再画上的线： ‧ He's now the only starting pitcher in history who can say he's won a World Series game in his 20s, his 30s and his 40s. ‧他是唯一的一个投手可以说他在他20、30及40岁都拿下一个世界冠军。 ‧ He's now one of only two starting pitchers -- Kenny Rogers being the other -- who can say he's won a World Series game after turning 40. ‧他现在是唯二的两个投手之一──Kenny Roger是另一个──可以说他在40岁之後拿 下一个世界冠军 ‧ And the Elias Sports Bureau reports that, by winning Series games 14 years apart, Schilling is now just the second pitcher ever to record World Series wins that many years apart or longer. Jim Palmer (17 years) is the other. ‧根据Elias Sports Bureau公司指出，在间隔14年又再次拿下世界大赛胜投後， Schilling现在是史上间隔第二位在14或更多年後又再次拿下胜投的投手，另一位是 Jim Palmer（17年）。 Those are very cool feats, very cool little slices of October trivia, very cool tidbits to file away for some future "Who's The Greatest Postseason Pitcher Ever?" debate. 以上那些是很酷的功绩，很棒的十月trivia问题来源以及当我们在争论「谁是史上最强 的季赛後投手」时的八卦资料。 Here, however, comes the number that's Schilling's personal favorite -- .846. 但这里，有一个Schilling最喜欢的数据──.846 That's his career postseason winning percentage. And it's now the best winning percentage in baseball history among all pitchers with at least 10 postseason decisions. 这是他生涯季後赛的胜率，而这也是大联盟史上，所有在季後赛有超过10次胜败纪录的 投手中胜率最高的。 Whether you love him or hate him, whether you root for him or against him, you have to admit this about Curt Schilling: His postseason numbers are getting downright insane. 不管是喜爱他或讨厌他，不管你支持他或反对他，你都必须要去承认：Schilling在 季後赛的数据近乎彻底疯狂。 No matter how many times you look at them, they tell the tale of a pitcher who has risen to these moments as successfully as any starting pitcher we've ever laid eyes on. 以下的那些数据不管你看几次，它们都告诉了我们，当一个投手在那种情况下是 与那些会让我们睁大眼睛的先发投手一样成功的。 Go ahead. Check them out. 让我们开始来一一检视 He's now 11-2, with a 2.23 ERA, in his 19 postseason trips to the mound. 在他季後赛的19次先发中，他现在是11胜2败，era2.23 He's now 4-1, 2.06, in seven career World Series starts. 他生涯在世界大赛先发7次，成绩是4胜1败，era2.06。 And he's now 6-1, 3.28, in eight postseason starts for the Red Sox. 以及在他8次穿红袜制服在季後赛先发时，他的成绩是6胜1败，era3.28。 Maybe he can't reach back for that old 97-mph flameball the way he used to. But his manager, Terry Francona, admits that when he points Schilling toward the mound in games like this, he has just as much trust in him as he ever has. 或许他再也无法像过去一样可以投到97mile了，但他的教头Terry Francona承认当他 在那样的比赛中派出Schilling先发时，他跟过去一样相信他。 Why? How? Simply because of "his will to make sure the score ends up in our favor," Francona said. "I've been around him so long," the manager went on, "I probably expect unfair things out of him. But that probably won't stop. It's a good feeling when he pitches." 为什麽这麽有信心？如何为这麽有信心？那是因为一个很简单的原因「他有强烈的意志 去使得比赛最後的比数结果会是他想要的（赢球），」Francona说，「我跟他相处很久 了，」Francona接着说，「我希望那些不公平的事不要发生在他身上，但那些或许并不 会因而停止。当他在投球时我感觉很放心。」 There might be no better way to sum up the difference between the Curt Schilling of 2007 and the Curt Schilling of yesteryear than this: In the first postseason start of Schilling's life -- Game 1 of the 1993 NLCS, against Atlanta -- he struck out the first five hitters he ever faced in any October baseball game.And on Thursday, 14 years later, he faced 22 hitters, threw 82 pitches and got just five swings and misses all night. 或许没有比这个更好的方法来找出07年的Schilling与过去的Schilling间的差异： 在Schilling生涯第一次的季後赛──1993年的国联冠军战对上勇士队──他三振了 他面对到的前5位打者；而在14年後的星期四，他整晚面对了22位打者，投了82球， 却只得到了5次让对方打者挥棒落空。 Yet even though this was also a game in which Schilling wriggled out of enough adventures that he had to throw 43 of his 82 pitches with at least one runner on base, his catcher, Jason Varitek, was still able to say afterward: "I never had the feeling he was in trouble all night." And that tells you as much about the man on the mound as it does about a Rockies offense so dismal that it has scraped together only two runs in two nights. 即便那是一场Schilling在他整场比赛所投的82球中，有43球是垒上至少有1位跑者在垒 上，但他的捕手Jason Varitek仍然可以在赛後说「我整晚从来不曾觉得他身陷在麻烦 （指失分危机）中」。这些正说明了，当这个人站在投手板上投球时，落矶队的攻击 看起来是如此黯淡无光的只能在2场比赛中得到2分。 Fourteen years ago -- heck, even three years ago -- the secret to Schilling's October domination was his ability to point his fastball wherever he needed to point it, and to power it past the greatest hitters on earth. 14年前──就算是三年前──Schilling在季後赛的成功秘诀就是他有能力将他的快速球 投到任何他要的位置，并且用速球的速度去压过那些强打者。 Now, on the other hand, he survives on different secrets -- smarts and preparation and location. But somehow, in games like this, he still finds a way to make it work. 而现在，他靠着不同的秘密存活着──解读比赛的能力、充足的准备及控球位置。 但在这种比赛中，他就是能够找到致胜的方法。 "He comes as close to executing a game plan as anybody I've seen," said third baseman Mike Lowell. "When you're playing defense and you see your catcher set up away, he doesn't miss in. and that adds a lot. It puts the defense in position to make plays. And there's just a good flow to the game, because you know that whatever he wants to do on the mound, he's able to do it." 「Schilling是我曾看过的投手中，执行比赛计画最完美的投手」三垒手Mike Lowell说。 「当你在守备时，你看到你的捕手把手套摆在打者的外角时，他不会失投将球投到内角去 。那对守备帮助很大，可以任守备球员在他所站的位置就完成让打者出局的守备动作。这 样对比赛的流动很好，因为你知道当他在投手丘上时，不管他要做什麽，他都做得到。」 Well, not quite. What he really wants to do in games like this is take the ball and not give it back until it's time to shake hands. But that ain't happening anymore. 嗯，不完全是这样。他在比赛中真正想要做的事是到比赛结束都不将球交出去（完投）， 但这已经将不会再发生了。 This Curt Schilling is a guy whose team handled him so carefully late in the year that he was pitching on regular rest Thursday for the first time in a month and a half. 现在的Schilling是一个在球季末尾声时非常受到球队保护的人。这场比赛是他这一个半 月来第一次在正常的轮值（投一休四）下先发登板。 This Curt Schilling had so much trouble getting loose heading into the sixth inning that Francona said he took one look at Schilling's body language and knew "it was time to get him out of there." 这个Schilling在比赛进行到第六局已经没有办法放松他的身体了，Francona说当他看到 Schilling的肢体动作时就了解到「现在是该换下他的时候到了」。 Listening to those words from his manager, it was hard to comprehend that this was the same pitcher who was so determined to shut out the Blue Jays in Game 5 of the 1993 Series, his manager in those days (Jim Fregosi) never even got the bullpen up while his aspiring ace was launching all 147 overpowering pitches. But Schilling was 26 then, and his legend was still being shaped. 从他的教练口中听到这样的一些话，实在很难让人理解到这是一个与1993年在世界大赛 第五战中决心要完封蓝鸟队同样的一个投手，当时他的教练（Jim Fregosi）当他充满斗 志的王牌投手投出那些让对方打者无法招架的147球时，甚至完全没有让牛棚投手起来热 身。但那时Schilling是26岁，而他的传奇还在。 "He was going to stay out there beginning to end that night," laughed Mike Timlin, Schilling's teammate now, a member of those '93 Blue Jays back then. "The Continental Congress couldn't have gotten him out of there." 「他打算整晚要自己一个人从头投到尾，」Schilling现在的队友、93年蓝鸟队的成员之 一的Timlin笑着说道，「连独立战争时的国会都无法将他换下来。」 Wait. The Continental Congress? Since when did they have any clout over postseason pitching changes? 等一下，独立战争时的国会？他们什麽时候对在季後赛的投手调度有影响力了？ "Well," Timlin quipped, "in Philadelphia, they might have had a little bit." 「嗯，」Timlin开玩笑着说，「在费城，或许他们有一点影响力。」 （注：美国在独立战争时，其国会所在地就是在费城。） When you throw 147 pitches on an indelible night in October, you're as likely to be compared to Gen. Patton as Bob Gibson. But what Schilling did in Game 2 of this World Series, Timlin said, actually "shows a lot more guts and a lot more grit." 当你在十月的一个难以磨灭的晚上投147球时，你将会被拿去与Bob Gibson相比。但 Schilling在世界大赛第2场所做到的，Timlin说「他展现了更多的勇气与胆量。」 Why? "Because he knows that he has to pitch now," Timlin said, "rather than blow guys away. Back then, he was a whole lot younger and a whole lot more durable. But now, (at 40) you just can't bounce back like you used to. And I ought to know. I'm right there with him." 为什麽？「因为他知道他现在必须要上场投球，而不是只是压制打者。」Timlim说 「过去，他比现在年轻很多也比现在耐投很多，但现在，（在40岁这个年纪）你已经 没有办法在回到过去你习惯的那样。而我该知道那些，因为我就在他的身边。」 Timlin, 41, has just about seen it all from this guy -- from Chapter One 14 years ago, to the 2004 soap opera, to this latest ride through October, in which Schilling is 3-0 in four starts. Asked if he'd like to sit down some day and watch Schilling's entire October highlight video, Timlin chuckled: "I guess so. But I've seen so many of then in person, I might have to help them edit it." Timlim，41岁，正好看过那个人的所有──从14年前的第一章，到2004年的肥皂剧 （指血袜事件），再到今年Schilling在4次先发中拿下3胜0败的十月之旅。在问到 他是否愿意在某天坐下来看Schilling整个生涯季後赛的精华片段录影带时，Timlim 科科的笑着说「我想我或许愿意，但我已经以个人身份看很多了，我或许会想帮忙他 编辑。」 Well, when he sits himself down in that editing room some day, Game 2 of the 2007 World Series is going to have its own special place on the tape. 嗯，当他在坐进编辑室的某天，2007年的世界大赛第二场将也会在那卷录影带上有 一个特别的位置。 They can cut to the scene where Schilling walks off that mound -- having racked up fewer outs (16) than he had in any October victory of his life. But it was enough to bring 36,000 people to their feet for one last roar of salute, enough to inspire Schilling to wave his cap all the way from the infield grass to the dugout steps. 他们可以将Schilling走下投手丘的画面剪进去──虽然那场他累计只得到了比他生涯 任何一场季後赛胜投时更少的出局数（16个），但那已经足够让现场所有的36000名 观众站起来向他呐喊致意，也足够让Schilling挥着他的帽子，一直从内野的草地上 到休息区。 It was the thought that this might be his final start for the Red Sox that kick-started those cheers. But there was actually a much bigger story line in play. 或许有人会认为因为这可能是他生涯最後一次为红袜队先发才会引起那些欢呼声， 但实际上那确实是因为这场比赛的这样过程才会有这样（的欢呼）。 This might have been this man's final start in October, too. 这或许可能也是这个人最後一次在十月的出赛。 And as he reminded us one more time Thursday night, October is still Curt Schilling's kind of month. 但就如同他星期四晚上再度提醒我们一样，十月依然是「那种Schilling」的月份。 --

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