[外電] Torre declines Kuo's offer to pitch Fri

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Dodgers' Joe Torre declines Hong-Chih Kuo's offer to pitch Friday By Dylan Hernandez August 14, 2010|7:33 p.m. Reporting from Atlanta — On the night Hong-Chih Kuo was named the Dodgers' new closer, he told Manager Joe Torre he was available to pitch. Torre's response: Thanks, but no thanks. "He volunteered last night, but we weren't going to go there," Torre said. Kuo, who has had four elbow operations, had pitched Wednesday and Thursday. Pitching Friday was out of the question. Figuring out how often to use Kuo in the ninth inning will be part of the challenge Torre will face as he waits for All-Star Jonathan Broxton to reclaim the role. "Whether he's pitching in the seventh, eighth or ninth inning, his arm doesn't know the difference," trainer Stan Conte said. "He assumes the risk no matter what role he's in." Torre said he will continue to limit Kuo's time on the mound and has identified Octavio Dotel as the preferred closing option on days Kuo isn't available. "I think Joe's done a good job with Kuo this year and I think he'll continue to do a good job with him while putting it all in perspective, which is a difficult thing to do," Conte said. Despite Kuo's dominance, Torre resisted the urge to use him on consecutive days through the All-Star break. Kuo, who was an All-Star, pitched on successive days for the first time Aug. 7-8. He has done that only once since, on Wednesday and Thursday. The two times Kuo pitched on consecutive days, he was in for only one-third of an inning on the second day. Kuo, who has said for the last 2½ years that he assumes that any pitch he throws could be his last, wouldn't say how frequently he thought he could pitch. "I don't know," he said. "I go day by day, you know?" http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dodgers-fyi-20100815,0,5461180.story -- Date　 IP ERA H R ER HR Pit S B S/B SO BB GO-AO 4月 1.2 10.80 2 2 2 0 29 21 8 2.625 2 1 3-0 5月　 10.2 0.00 3 0 0 0 164 117 47 2.489　15 3 6-10 6月 12.0 0.75 5 1 1 1 185 117 68 1.721 13 4 7-12 7月 12.0 0.75 7 1 1 0 183 124 59 2.102 16 3 7-12 8月 4.2 0.00 3 0 0 0 76 44 32 1.375 5 2 0-8 Total 41.0 0.88 20 4 4 1 637 423 214 1.977 51 13 23-42 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 114.45.177.158