Shut Up Forever

看板A-Rod作者jimcal (Let go Yankees！)時間18年前 (2006/06/30 19:02)推噓8(8推 0噓 3→)

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※原文發表自 Replacement Level Yankees Weblog http://yankeefan.blogspot.com/2006/06/shut-up-forever.html Hideki Matsui never did it. Gary Sheffield has never done it. Bernie Williams has never done it. 松井秀喜未曾做到。 Gary Sheffield 也未曾做到。 Bernie Williams 也未曾做到。 Jorge Posada has done it twice, including once earlier this season. Jason Giambi, well, we all remember when he did it. Ken Griffey, Jr. didn't do it until this May. Jorge Posada 曾有兩次，包括本季早先的一次，而我們都知道 Jason Giambi 什麼時候作過。 Ken Griffey, Jr, 則是到五月才作到。 Derek Jeter has never done it. 就連 Derek Jeter 也未曾作到過。 Yesterday, Alex Rodriguez did it, hitting a walkoff home run to erase a 3-2 deficit and give the Yankees an InstaVictory, 4-3. Such a home run is much rarer than you think, in A-Rod's first two seasons as a Yankee it only happened 22 times in the majors -- less than once every 220 games. And yesterday was A-Rod's first time. 昨天，Alex Rodriguez 作到了，打出再見全壘打，使洋基從 2:3 的劣勢反敗為勝，拿下延長賽的最後勝利，4:3 擊敗了對手。這種全壘打可比你想像中的還要稀有， A-Rod 在洋基的前兩個球季，大聯盟裡只出現過 22 次，每兩百二十場比賽還不到一次。而昨天是 A-Rod 的第一次。 In fact, not only was it's A-Rod's first deficit-erasing-walkoff-homer, it was also the very first hit he's ever had as Yankee that turned a deficit into a lead in the seventh inning or later. That's right, even though those kind of hits aren't that common, either, the closest A-Rod has ever come to turning a late deficit into a lead with the Yankees was when Shannon Stewart let his double bounce into the stands to keep Derek Jeter at third base in the 2004 ALDS. 事實上，不只是 A-Rod 的第一次反敗為勝的再見全壘打，也是他穿上條紋衣以來，在七局以後第一次擊出反敗為勝的全壘打。當然一方面也是因為這種安打如此稀少， A-Rod 最接近的一次是在 2004 年的 ALDS 打出的那支，Shannon Stewart 追趕不及，也讓 Jeter 只能停在三壘的規則二壘安打。 If you really think about it, this wasn't just a clutch hit -- of course it's not, A-Rod's had LOTS of clutch hits, people just act like he hasn't -- but it was THE most clutch hit possible. A hard hit ball to a corner infielder or a grounder up the middle, and the Yankees would lose, but instead they won, and nothing was left to chance. A-Rod didn't even need to run to first to see if it would hit off the wall, that ball was gone the moment he hit it. 只要你仔細想想，就知道這不只是一支 clutch hit -- 當然不是什麼 A-Rod 的第一支 clutch hit， A-Rod 有一堆 clutch hits，人們只是假裝遺忘他曾經辦到的 -- 不過這支是最能夠表現 clutch hit 的一支了！如果這球往內野角落去或是往中間方向的滾地球，可能洋基就輸了，而相反地他們贏了，一點機會都不留給對手。A-Rod甚至不需要跑到一壘才確認球是否打出牆，這球在他打到的瞬間就出去了。 This is bigger than a slump-busting homer, and it's bigger than a data point on my spreadsheets that probably won't convince anyone who already thinks they'd have been better off with Soriano. This is the argument-ender -- not for rational argument, which would probably have to conclude that Rodriguez is, at worst, average in the clutch -- but for the sports call-in show types, who like to ignore the double off of Nathan, and the homer off of Schilling, or the ninth-inning tying homer off of Wickman last year. This was supremely clutch. Who cares what team it was against, or what pitcher it was off of? You didn't hear that bullshit when Jeter hit his Opening Day homer off of Ambiorix Burgos of the freaking Royals. 這支全壘打的意義比走出低潮的全壘打還要深，而且比我統計資料上的數字還要重要-- 雖然無法說服任何認為 Soriano 更好的人們。這將終結所有的爭論 -- 不是那些理性的爭論，結論出 A-Rod 至少有平均的 clutch 能力的爭論 -- 不過對那些鄉民們而言，他們只知道忽略對 Nathan打出的二壘安打，忽略對 Schilling 的那支全壘打，忽略去年對 Wickman 的那支追平全壘打。這都是對 clutch 的最佳演繹。誰在意到底對的是哪一隊？或者投的是哪個投手？你有聽過誰強調 Jeter 打出的那支開幕戰全壘打是從爐主皇家隊 Ambiorix Burgos手中打出的嗎？ When it comes to clutchness, A-Rod isn't Ortiz. But then, here is a complete list of players who have been as good or better than in the clutch as David Ortiz in the past decade: 當談論到 clutch 能力時，A-Rod 不是 Ortiz。不過我們可以來看看過去這個世代，有哪些球員做得跟 Ortiz 一樣好，甚至比他更好。 1) David Ortiz 就是他了，唯一的一個，David Ortiz。 Comparing A-Rod to Ortiz and declaring him insufficiently clutch because he comes up short is ridiculous, akin to comparing a hitter to Babe Ruth and declaring him insufficient. Ortiz isn't the baseline, he's the peak, which is all well and good, but it doesn't mean much at all when it comes to evaluating A-Rod. 所以把 A-Rod 拿來跟 Ortiz 比並且因此說他的能力不足是荒謬可笑的，就像把打擊者跟 Baby Ruth 比較然後說這個打者能力不足一般。 Ortiz 不是基準線，他是頂端，他各方面都很好，但並不代表可以用這套標準來衡量 A-Rod。 A-Rod became a "True Yankee" yesterday, whatever that means, like Giambi did when he hit his homer against the Twins -- though Giambi was still never loved until he had his fall from grace last year, then recovered to be everything he once was. But at the very least, the next time a writer implies that A-Rod can't come through in the clutch, at least not in New York, you can make them look foolish without having to pull out more than one number. A-Rod 昨天成為 "True Yankee" 了，就像 Giambi 打出他那支對雙城隊的全壘打之後，雖然 Giambi 到去年之前還沒有真正的被喜愛，而之後就恢復成過去的他。不過至少至少下一次哪個記者想暗示 A-Rod 無法在關鍵時刻有所表現時，不會是在紐約，你可以什麼數字也不用找就讓那些想嘲諷 A-Rod 的人看起來愚蠢。 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 220.140.194.234