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※ [本文轉錄自 NY-Yankees 看板] 作者: leddy (耿秋) 看板: NY-Yankees 標題: [新聞] Rodriguez Says ‘Ha,’ but Jays Aren’t Laughing 時間: Thu May 31 23:02:41 2007 Yankees 10, Blue Jays 5 Rodriguez Says ‘Ha,’ but Jays Aren’t Laughing from nytimes.com By TYLER KEPNER Published: May 31, 2007 TORONTO, May 30 — Somehow or other, Alex Rodriguez has said, the game always comes down to him. That is an exaggeration, of course, but it seemed inevitable on Wednesday. Rodriguez’s day at the ballpark began with a refusal to answer questions about his personal life, which had been splashed on the front of The New York Post. It ended with the assertion that has dogged him for four years in pinstripes: that he does not handle himself as a Yankee should. The Yankees were leading the Toronto Blue Jays by two runs in an eventual 10-5 victory when Jorge Posada lifted a lazy fly ball to third base with two outs in the top of the ninth inning. Third baseman Howie Clark camped under it, but he backed off just after Rodriguez ran slowly past him. Rodriguez said he shouted “Ha” as he passed Clark, who was fooled into thinking that the shortstop, John McDonald, had called for the ball. When Clark backed away, the ball dropped safely onto the turf for a run-scoring single. The Blue Jays were incensed, with umpires restraining McDonald from charging at Rodriguez. John Gibbons, the Blue Jays’ manager, had words with Rodriguez, who smiled as he stood on third base. Jason Giambi singled in two more runs to make it a rout. “I haven’t been in the game that long,” said Gibbons, who was playing in the majors when Rodriguez was 8 years old. “Maybe I’m naive. But, to me, it ’s bush league. One thing, to everybody in this business, you always look at the Yankees and they do things right. They play hard, class operation, that’ s what the Yanks are known for. That’s not Yankee baseball.” Rodriguez said he hears opposing players shouting at him on foul balls near the dugout three or four times a week. He did not admit to intentionally distracting Clark — “I don’t know what my intention was,” he said — but he pointed out that the Blue Jays had made a heady play in stealing home on Tuesday. Rodriguez said he was simply trying to win. “We’re desperate,” he said. “ We haven’t won a game in a little bit now. We won the game.” It was the Yankees’ first victory in a week, and it snapped a five-game losing streak. They remain tied for last place, and they will enter this weekend’s series at Boston trailing the Red Sox by 13 ? games in the American League East. “This lifted a real cloud off us, especially with the off day tomorrow,” Manager Joe Torre said. “To have to carry that through the off day and into Boston would have been difficult. Hopefully, with the way we have our pitching lined up, we can start competing and have some good results.” Robinson Cano went 4 for 4 with three doubles Wednesday, and Mariano Rivera converted on his first save opportunity since May 3. Tyler Clippard wobbled through five innings for the victory, walking five and throwing 98 pitches, and Torre did not commit to leaving him in the rotation. “We know he’s probably not quite ready,” Torre said, “but he doesn’t stop competing. He works at it out there. He doesn’t stop coming at you, which is pretty impressive for a kid who’s 22 years old.” Clippard allowed three runs but made the Yankees’ first-inning outburst stand up. Johnny Damon led off with a homer, later adding a single for his 2,000th career hit. The Yankees chased the rookie Jesse Litsch, who got just two outs and allowed five runs in the first inning. It was 6-5 when Rivera bailed out an erratic Kyle Farnsworth with two outs and two on in the eighth. Lyle Overbay shattered his bat on a grounder to first to end that inning, and the Blue Jays went down in order in the ninth. Of his cutter, Rivera said, “It was moving, yes it was.” Rodriguez singled in the ninth to make it 7-5, and his verbal interference with Clark allowed the Yankees to pile on. The third base coach, Larry Bowa, said that Rodriguez did not cross a line of good sportsmanship. “If you say, ‘I got it,’ I think that’s very unacceptable,” Bowa said. “ He didn’t say, ‘I got it.’ He said, ‘Hey, hey.’ They parted like the Red Sea.” Gibbons said he told Rodriguez he thought it was a bush league play, which Bowa also heard. But Rodriguez claimed not to hear anything that Gibbons or McDonald said, and not to care, either. “I could care less,” Rodriguez said. “They have their opinions. We’re looking not to get swept. It really didn’t make a difference. Mo shut them down in the ninth.” In a season that seems to get weirder every day, that, at least, was a comforting feeling for the Yankees. INSIDE PITCH A second magnetic resonance imaging exam on Phil Hughes’s left ankle revealed a Grade III sprain, indicating a torn ligament. Hughes will not be allowed to throw off a mound for about six more weeks, though General Manager Brian Cashman said the Yankees have ruled out surgery. “He can walk on it, and it doesn’t look all that bad,” Cashman said. “But it is what it is. They’ve got him in a boot. He’s been throwing with a boot on it. But it’s going to push him back, because he’s not going to be able to throw off a mound.” Cashman said Hughes’s hamstring was almost fully healed when he injured the ankle doing conditioning drills last Friday. Hughes’s timetable would make it unlikely that he could return before August. ... Joe Torre exchanged e-mail messages with Roger Clemens, and Clemens told Torre he was looking forward to starting against the White Sox on Monday in Chicago. ... Kyle Farnsworth has just two 1-2-3 innings in 22 games this season. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 220.132.198.21