[外電] Chien-Ming Wang pitches the game of his life
April 12, 2008
Chien-Ming Wang pitches the game of his life
For a pitcher who has the best record in the majors over the past two
seasons, Chien-Ming Wang doesn’t often get included in conversations as
being an ace. True, he was terrible in the playoffs two games in a row.
But he’s been pitching phenomenally this year, and last night was the
best game of his career.
Last night was the first time I was actually rooting for the Red Sox to
get a hit. After Bobby Abreu didn’t make the catch to prevent J.D. Drew
’s homer, I didn’t want Wang to have a one-hitter, and have that coulda
woulda shoulda thing hanging over the game. Although I think Melky Cabrera
would have been able to make that catch, I didn’t want to see Abreu be
the person who cost Wang a no-hitter.
That’s why I was OK with Alex Rodriguez getting charged with an error on
that high throw to Jason Giambi - that would have been awful if Wang had
lost his no-hitter on that play.
Oh, and thanks to Terry Francona, for bringing in Mike Timlin. He’s all
kinds of awful.
Speaking of all kinds of awful, what’s going on with David Ortiz, who’s
now hitting .077? As Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe writes:
Wang sends his monthly mortgage payment to Big Papi. Ortiz owns the
righthander. Going into last night’s game, Ortiz was 15 for 30 against
Wang with 4 doubles, 2 home runs, and 6 walks.
None of it mattered. Ortiz’s slump continued. He took a called third
strike in the first. Then he hit into a double play in the fourth. In the
seventh, he hit a feeble grounder to first and barely took the trouble to
run down the line.
As for the Yankee hitting, Jose Molina had a big night, with two doubles
(my prediction for him must have brought him good luck!) Hideki Matsui had
two doubles as well, and A-Rod and Bobby Abreu have continued their hot
hitting. But the most positive sign for the Yankee bats is that Jason
Giambi hit a homer. Hopefully this is a positive sign of things to come.
* * *
In other news, I disagree with what Andy Pettitte said yesterday about the
media’s coverage of the Mitchell Report:
“The whole thing was horrible for my kids, the way the media portrayed
it,” Pettitte said. “It was so magnified. It was obviously a big deal,
but it almost did more damage than it did good, the way it was so, I
thought, sensationalized.”
As longtime Squawker readers know, Pettitte was my favorite player for the
dynasty years. I was devastated when he went to Houston, and ecstatic when
he came back to New York. That being said,he’s all wet here.
I’m sorry, but the media coverage on Pettitte was extremely fair. Roger
Clemens, not Pettitte, was made out to be the villain, and rightfully so.
But because Andy has been a stand-up,likeable guy, he got treated a lot
better. There was some criticism, to be sure, but it was pretty darn mild.
And all in all, Pettitte was eventually seen as a hero for telling the
truth, and not throwing Brian McNamee under the bus. So I can’t
understand why Andy is so bent out of shape over the coverage.
One other thing - Steve Lombardi, writer of Yankee blog Was Watching, gave
me a nice shout-out about my work on NYDailynews.com’s stadium package.
Thanks, Steve.
What do you think of the Yankees-Red Sox series so far? Leave us a
comment!
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