Late show for NY: Everybody loves Damon Heads-up baserunning sets stage for A-Rod's latest heroics 「大門~~愛死你了」 智慧型跑壘 幫A-rod舖英雄梗 PHILADELPHIA -- The processing took a matter of seconds. Running and thinking at roughly the same speed, Johnny Damon realized that Phillies third baseman Pedro Feliz was covering second base and that no one was covering third. He saw that Feliz had caught the ball in front of the second-base bag, ever so slightly to the right. He clocked his own speed and that of Feliz, and gauged the risk. 當費城人三壘手Feliz切進二壘的時候 說時遲那時快 大門運用了他的速度 一溜煙地衝上了三壘 Then he bolted. 「Wow」「閃電小子！」 "I'm just glad that when I started running, I still had some of my young legs behind me," Damon said. 大門說：「當我開始起跑時，超爽的你都不知道 你沒看我咖骨~~我咖骨~~我咖骨架軟Ｑ捏！」 The result was one of the more remarkable plays in World Series history and what could go down as one of the more memorable plays in Yankees history, as well. Damon, stealing second base in the ninth inning of Game 4, exploited a defensive shift and a mental lapse to take third base as well, setting the stage for Brad Lidge's meltdown and Alex Rodriguez's game-winning double in what became a 7-4 Yankees victory. 這次的跑壘經典程度 將足以在世界大賽 以及洋基隊史中留名 大門藉著佈陣空檔 連盜兩個壘包 接著A-rod面對L(idge)打出了致勝分的二壘安打 洋基最後以7比4獲得勝利 "That's instinct," manager Joe Girardi said. 吉總說：「這是身為選手的直覺啊！」 It was, in essence, the perfect baseball storm. With two outs and Damon on first base in the ninth, the Phillies fell into the defensive alignment they use regularly when switch-hitting first baseman Mark Teixeira bats left-handed. Second baseman Chase Utley moved into shallow right field and shortstop Jimmy Rollins hovered around the second-base bag, with Feliz moving into Rollins' vacated spot on the left side of the diamond. 九局下半，當大門站上一壘時 費城人為了鐵爺採取了佈陣考量 二壘手Utley都守到右外野去了 遊擊手Rollins站在二壘防區 三壘手Feliz則是守在Rollins的遊擊守位 把內野左線給空了出來 When Damon broke for second on a stolen-base attempt, Feliz covered the bag. Receiving catcher Carlos Ruiz's throw in front of and to the right of the base, Feliz watched Damon pop up from his slide, take a quick glance at the shifted third baseman and bolt for the next bag. 當大門偷上二壘的時候 是由站在遊擊區的三壘手Feliz進來補位接球 而大門一使用絕技「縮地」衝過Feliz身邊的時候 Feliz只能眼睜睜地看著大門離他而去( Feliz：NO~~~~ Q_Q ) Lidge, who could have covered the base, stood stunned off the mound, taking a few steps toward third but correctly considering it futile. And Damon raced away from Feliz, who chased him for a brief moment but quickly lost the footrace. L(idge)本來可以去替補三壘的空缺 不過他卻定在投手丘上 就算他再跑個幾步也是沒用 大門已經像變了心的男朋友一樣衝上三壘了 "I've got to cover the bag," Feliz said, referring to second base. "[Damon] didn't see anybody on the other side, so he just took off." Feliz說：「我必須要進二壘補位 結果大門看到三壘邊沒人就跑了」 "Teams usually have a backup plan where a pitcher covers or a catcher covers," third-base coach Rob Thomson said. "Somebody has got to cover third base. I'm sure they do. Somebody missed his assignment." 洋基三壘指導教練說：「球隊在補位上面應該要有備案 必須要有人去補位 看來是有人忘了他的工作」 That somebody, according to the Phillies' shortstop himself, was Rollins. Though it was Feliz's job to cover the second-base bag, it was Rollins' duty to make sure Lidge was prepared to cover third. But he did not open his mouth, and Lidge did not move his legs. 那個「有人」 指的是身為費城人隊長的Rollins 由於Feliz的工作是進二壘補位 Rollins必須要提醒力矩去補防三壘 不過Rollins沒講 力矩也沒動就是 "I'm the captain of the infield," Rollins said. "It's my job." Rollins說：「我身為內野隊長，那應該是我的工作」 Rollins, like Lidge, had no choice but to worry about the next batter, Rodriguez. Damon's sprint to third base changed the complexion of the at-bat, because Lidge had to be wary of throwing his signature pitch, a slider, in the dirt, where it could easily scoot away from Ruiz and allow the go-ahead run to score. 力矩中了這一招讓大門跑上三壘 使得他們在面對A-rod的時候沒得選擇 只得封印起力矩的招牌滑球 免得滑球太滑 吃土之後直接送分 Instead of tempting fate with a slider, Lidge threw two consecutive fastballs to Rodriguez. And the Yankees' most frequent postseason hero pulled the second of them into left field for a game-winning RBI double. 滑球中了魔法進入封印狀態 力矩只得連送兩個直球面對A-rod 這位洋基的季後賽英雄回送一份大禮：帶著致勝分打點的二壘安打 "We would have gone to sliders real soon," Lidge said, dismissing the notion that Damon's presence changed his strategy. "We probably should have gone to it sooner." 力矩說：「千金難買早知道 早知道就別封印」 The pitch selection, though, was just fine by Rodriguez, who had previously smacked a Lidge fastball over the fence during a comeback victory over the Phillies at Yankee Stadium in May. 這投球策略的改變讓A-rod爽的咧 在五月對上費城人的比賽中 A-rod也是在九局下半賞了Brad-S-Lidge一發追平二分砲 最後逆轉戰局 "His money pitch is a slider, and that's where he gets all his punchouts," Rodriguez said. A-rod說：「BS魔王的大絕就是那顆滑球」 Later in the inning, with Rodriguez on second and Teixeira on third, Jorge Posada hit a two-run single that sucked most of the drama out of the bottom of the ninth. Like the others, it was a big hit. But the Yankees all circled their credit back to the man who started the two-out rally. 隨後波波送上兩分打點的一壘安打 戲劇性地在九局上又二出局後逆轉戰局 不過對洋基來說 這很習以為常啦 Earning equal praise to Damon's personal double steal was the at-bat that put him on first base in the first place. Fouling off five pitches and nearly striking out twice in the at-bat, Damon instead took ball two just off the plate, survived a foul tip that Ruiz nearly caught, and then served Lidge's ninth pitch -- and fifth straight fastball -- into left field for what briefly seemed like an innocuous single. 對大門來說 那次跑壘很神 但他在打擊區的表現也一樣重要 在吃了蠶豆九球 其中五球打到界外 還有兩次幾乎就要被三振之後(要是捕手Ruiz接到就掰了) 面對五連發的直球 最後他掃出一支左外野、看起來應該對戰局沒什麼影響平飛安打 It was not. Moments later, Damon initiated his chaos on the bases, putting the gears of a game-winning rally in motion. 沒影響是嗎？哼哼~~ 不久之後，閃電小子就這麼趁亂跑出一個致勝的短跑衝刺 "Great play," Yankees closer Mariano Rivera said. "When you play aggressive like that and you know what you're doing out there, something's going to happen." MO說：「神神神 有夠神 當你一直都像這樣強攻的時候 就是有事要發生啦」 The initiative was not entirely foreign to the Yankees, even if the success of it was. On Opening Day in 2003, Derek Jeter attempted to run from first to third on a slow ground ball to the pitcher's mound, which Blue Jays third baseman Eric Hinske -- now with the Yankees -- had bolted in to field. Jeter collided with Jays catcher Ken Huckaby, who raced over to cover the third-base bag, dislocating his left shoulder and missing six weeks of the season. 這個場景對洋基來說應該並不陌生 2003年對藍鳥的開幕戰中 隊長想在對大吉的佈陣中從一壘衝向三壘 當時的三壘手是洋基今年的新同學Hinske 結果隊長和前來補位三壘的捕手Huckaby相撞 造成左肩脫臼 最後缺賽了六週 That misfortunate memory, though, did not skew Jeter's perspective of what he and his teammates considered an expert baserunning maneuver on the most significant of baseball stages. 經過那次事件後，隊長等人都認同：跑壘也要用腦 "It's an unusual play," Jeter said. "It's not something you practice. It was a heads-up play by Johnny." 隊長說：「這跑壘實在不簡單 那可不是練習得來 而是大門他...應該跟小傑一樣也是金的兒子吧」 --

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