投打对决绝对是棒球比赛中最令人着迷的环节，不管看门道还是看热闹，其中的斗智斗 力都非常有趣 刚好看到一篇咩棒的采访有谈到关於红袜投球策略的东西，符合个人观察，分享给大家 没有全照原文字意翻得很随兴，有错也请不吝指正~ https://goo.gl/SoFKaE Opposing batters teeing off on elevated fastball by Sox pitchers 对手开始锁定袜群投手的高角度速球 MINNEAPOLIS -- Matt Barnes can’t help but wonder if opposing hitters are onto the way Red Sox pitchers pitch. Barnes mostly watched from the bullpen as Chicago hitters seemed to be all over elevated fastballs during the Cubs-Red Sox series at Fenway Park a week ago -- a fastball up from Craig Kimbrel that Ben Zobrist hit for a double, a f astball up from Joe Kelly that Anthony Rizzo smashed back up the middle, a fas tball up from Drew Pomeranz that Kris Bryant hit well over the Green Monster. 咩棒於一周前熊袜系列战在牛棚观察到熊群似乎在锁定红袜的高角度速球- 金宝的被Zoby敲2B、Kelly被梨斗打了支中穿、老大把泼墨的干出绿怪 (译者案：Kelly的那颗明明就是颗丢到中间的滑球 -_-) And then Barnes threw an elevated fastball to Joe Mauer on Friday night, a fastball at 95 mph well up and out of the strike zone -- and Mauer not only got his bat to it but launched it over the fence in left-center field. The swing still had Barnes shaking his head two days later. 不久後发生了有看比赛的袜迷都知道的事情，咩棒一颗按计画丢的高於好球带95mph的火 球被猫儿猫了支再见全垒打。即使过了两天咩棒对这球仍耿耿於怀 “He can hit that pitch for a single, maybe a double, because of how good of a hitter he is and how long he’s been playing the game,” Barnes said before Sunday’s series finale at Target Field, “but, to me, the only way he hits that ball for a home run is if he’s sitting heater up.” 咩棒：” 即使强如猫儿那颗球也很难打，顶多敲一安或二安，我觉得能干本就代表他早 就在等那颗(高角度速)球” (译者案：不得不佩服猫儿，那颗球就算事前就知道要干本也不容易耶…) As recently as four or five years ago, the textbook pitching approach remained hard in, soft away -- fastballs on the inner half to keep a hitter from diving out over the plate, changeups and breaking balls on or just off the outside corner for swings and misses. 以前教科书上都是教 ”硬的进来、软的出去” -- 速球塞内角逼退打者，变化球/变速球 丢外面制造挥空 For the Red Sox, especially since analyst Brian Bannister took on a more prominent role late in the 2015 season, the approach has been hard up, soft down -- fastballs at or above the letters, changeups or breaking balls down in the zone to change eye level. The approach is a response to the way hitters ’ swings have adjusted to a strike zone that has steadily expanded southward since 2010. 但对红袜来说，特别是2015季末Bannister担任要职後，投球策略就变 ”硬上、软掉” – 速球丢到胸口以上，变化球/变速球丢到好球带下缘去逼打者切换视角。 打者的挥棒因应自2010年起持续往下扩张的好球带有所调整，此投球策略则是针对打者这 项调整而来。 Some of the game’s best hitters -- including Mike Trout, the consensus best player in baseball -- hit fastballs at the knees better than they hit fastballs at the letters. The home run Barnes gave up to Minnesota’s Kennys Vargas in Sunday’s eighth inning came on a changeup below the knees. 一些顶尖的打者如鳟鱼，对膝盖附近的低球比胸口附近的高球打的更好更擅长 Rather than trying to spot fastballs down and away, Red Sox pitchers have made a focus of riding fastballs up to the letters and above while using offspeed pitches -- often sharp-breaking curveballs, the preferred offspeed pitch of much of the Red Sox staff -- to change the hitters’ eye levels. 比起把快速球塞到外角低，红袜的投手更喜欢把快速球往胸口以上丢，同时利用 off-speed，特别是多数红袜投手偏好的够锐利的曲球，来改变打者的视角 “Hitters have changed their swings,” Boston pitching coach Carl Willis said. “Their swings have evolved to cover down in the zone because they saw so many pitches there. It’s cyclical. It was just a really long cycle. The instruction now in the minor leagues is developing swing paths that can handle those pitches down in the zone.” “打者的挥棒已经改变了。”投教Willis说道。”随着投手们锁定好球带下缘攻击，打者 的挥棒亦随之进化，愈来愈会打低球，这是一个循环。培养可应付好球带下缘的挥击方式 已是现在小联盟的育苗方针 Bannister began to preach the value of fastballs up in the strike zone early last season, even before he was added to Boston’s coaching staff full-time. The data Bannister showed Barnes and others made clear that their fastballs worked better up in the zone, pitching as they were against hitters who had been groomed to hit low fastballs. 在去年初尚未受雇为红袜全职教职前，Bannister就已在球队大肆宣扬高角度速球的价值 。Bannister拿数据给包括咩棒的其他投手们看证明高角度速球更有效果，尤其是对付那 些擅打低球的打者 The difference was particularly stark for pitchers like Barnes and Craig Kimbrel, pitchers with the big-time velocity that has become more common in recent years -- and a spin rate to match. It tends to be easier for hitters to drop the bat head to a mid-90s fastball at the knees than to catch up a mid-90s fastball at or above the letters. 对许多打者来说有尾劲的mid-90s落在胸口以上比膝盖附近更难打。 “If you take a pitcher and correlate it and show me evidence that pitching here versus pitching here makes me twice as good, I’d be an idiot not to do that,” Barnes said, gesturing toward his chest and his knees. “Once we could physically see those numbers, it was like, ‘OK, this is a no-brainer.’ It’s crazy when you break it all down and see the difference.” 咩棒: “若你能证明这样丢更有效果而我不去做的话我就是傻子；差异显着，当我们亲眼 看到数据，就肯定这是毫无疑问的事情” (译者案：所以硬上才是真理吗 >////<) But the difference starts to diminish if opposing hitters begin to look for that pitch, as the Cubs and Twins might have done against the Red Sox. The next task of the Red Sox pitching staff will be to suss out if hitters indeed are selling out to hit the elevated fastball -- and to do something to keep them off-balance. 但如同小熊跟双城可能已经做的，当对手已知道该策略并锁定球种攻击时，效果自然大打 折扣。 若确认对手已准备狙击高角度速球，红袜投手群的下一步将是设法使他们失去平衡。 “You’ve got to believe they have scouts at all of our games and they’re saying, ’As soon as they get to two strikes, they’re going up,’” Barnes said. “It’s a cat-and-mouse game. We’re going up. You guys are sitting up. Well, now we’re going to snap (curveballs) off on 0-1 or 1-2. It’s interesting to see how it has all come about.” “若对手已认定我们在两好球後会往上丢，我们自有应对方式。这是场猫捉老鼠的游戏， 从现在起我们会在球数领先时多丢变化球，让我们静候结果。 --

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