[轉錄] Torre's message to his team: Relax
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Torre's message to his team: Relax
By PETER ABRAHAM
pabraham@lohud.com
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: May 22, 2006)
NEW YORK — Had his team lost on Saturday, Yankees manager Joe Torre
would have held a meeting afterward to express his distaste with the
recent level of play.
But the Yankees scored four runs in the ninth inning off Mets closer
Billy Wagner, then won the game in extra innings. There was no sense in
spoiling the party.
"I didn't have the heart to do it," Torre said.
With three games against first-place Boston starting tonight in Fenway
Park, Torre didn't delay any further. He spoke to his players for 10
minutes last night, just before batting practice.
With Hideki Matsui and Gary Sheffield on the disabled list, Randy Johnson
struggling and several other players hurting, Torre felt some players
were doing too much to try to compensate. Just relax, he told them.
"It wasn't a negative thing. Everybody can't do a little bit extra, but
everybody can do what they can do," Torre said. "We come here to compete
every day, and whoever the players are on the field has nothing to do
with our confidence level. We just have to go out there and play our
game."
One of Torre's themes was defense. The Yankees had committed 22 errors in
the previous 13 games. That part of the equation got better last night.
The error-free Yankees actually looked pretty good in the field.
Torre also spoke to the hitters about not trying to make up for their
missing teammates. That might take another meeting or two.
The Yankees left 15 runners on base in a 4-3 loss against the Mets, 10 in
scoring position. They were 2 for 17 with runners in scoring position.
Torre senses that Alex Rodriguez and Jason Giambi are trying too hard to
carry the team. Giambi is 4 for his last 33, dropping his batting average
to .261. Rodriguez is hitting .270 and has one RBI in the last seven
games.
Rodriguez was 0 for 4 last night and left seven men on base. With the
Yankees up 2-0 in the fourth inning and two runners on, Rodriguez hit a
line drive to left that 6-foot-4 Cliff Floyd reached up and caught.
"I had a chance to break it open and Cliff makes a nice play," Rodriguez
said. "That's the game."
Good swing, bad luck. But in the eighth inning, with runners on first and
second, Rodriguez grounded into a double play. He is 13 for 52 (.250)
with runners in scoring position. No Yankee has left more runners
stranded.
"We can't try and make up for Matsui and Sheffield," Rodriguez said. "We
still have a good enough team. We have enough in the tank with our lineup
to win a lot of games."
Asked if he was pressing, Rodriguez shook his head,
"Not really," he said. "No."
The Yankees have lost five of their last eight but are only 1 1/2 games
out of first place. For all of their difficulties, they remain in a good
position.
But with so many questions about injuries and the flood of call-ups from
the minor leagues, Torre worries that the Yankees will start to have
doubts.
"I haven't seen that yet, but you want to address it before it starts,"
he said. "It was for everybody. If what's going on hurts one guy, that's
enough for me."
There is help on the way. Sheffield took batting practice and said he was
ready to come off the disabled list, his left wrist having sufficiently
healed. He will play in a minor-league rehab game tonight.
It also appears that Jorge Posada's back injury is not serious, and he
could be back in the lineup as early as tonight.
Once Sheffield returns and the lineup regains some pop, Torre expects
Rodriguez, Giambi and the other hitters to relax.
"I think we're going to be OK," Derek Jeter said. "This is something
every team goes through."
--
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I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." I assume you dream, Preston.
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