[新聞] Yankees’ Hopes Are Going, Going ...
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Yankees’ Hopes Are Going, Going ...
By TYLER KEPNER
Published: August 27, 2008
The grand slam exploded like a gunshot Wednesday night, tearing out the
guts of even the most naive believers in the 2008 Yankees.
The eighth-inning bullet by Dustin Pedroia was like the opening scene of
a documentary, many years from now, capturing the thud of finality to
something once so special. The question for the Yankees is what starts
next: a glorious renaissance or a painful fall from grace?
In the owner’s box, Hank Steinbrenner was making his first appearance
at Yankee Stadium since opening day. The team was healthy then, the young
starters seemed ready, and there were few doubts that Yankee Stadium would
see one more postseason, the 14th in a row for the franchise.
But as Pedroia rounded the bases, Steinbrenner hung his head. By the
bottom of the inning, he was gone from his seat. There was no need to
witness the final details of the Yankees’ 11-3 loss to the Boston Red Sox,
the one that probably doomed their postseason chances.
The Yankees had considered it a necessity to win this series, but now
they cannot. They have lost the first two games, with a matinee to come
Thursday, and they fell to seven games behind the Red Sox in the American
League wild-card standings.
Alex Rodriguez had two doubles, a night after going 0 for 5, and
Steinbrenner told reporters that Rodriguez must stop pressing. More
interesting was that Steinbrenner repeated the vow he has made for months.
“There is going to be a lot going on this off-season,” he said.
“I promise you that.”
There will be expensive free agents available, like C. C. Sabathia and
Mark Teixeira, and the Yankees could be aggressive bidders. They certainly
plan to be more active in November than they have been in August.
On the day the Red Sox acquired outfielder Mark Kotsay in a waiver deal
with Atlanta, their starter was Paul Byrd, who was obtained in a waiver
trade from Cleveland. The deals underscore the teams’ motivations; the
Yankees did not claim either player and have made no waiver deals.
Byrd won the fourth game of the A.L. division series for the Indians last
year, eliminating the Yankees from the playoffs. This time, he worked six
innings and allowed two runs. Joe Girardi, the Yankees’ manager, said
his team hit some hard foul balls.
The deeper the Yankees fall, the smaller basis Girardi seems to have for
his sunny outlook. Before and after Wednesday’s game, he said it was
“not the end of the world” for the Yankees to lose the series.
“It’s not where you want to be, but no hole is too deep to climb out
of,” Girardi said. “You have to prepare, you have to execute and you
can only look at tomorrow’s game.”
In the clubhouse, players seemed to better grasp the enormity of the
challenge. They are trailing two teams in their division and two for
the wild card. Johnny Damon mentioned last year’s Colorado Rockies,
who surged to the postseason by winning 14 of their last 15 games.
Damon said the Yankees could make the same kind of push, though it
would take an extraordinary effort.
“The strengths are going to have to be everybody playing better than
they’re capable of,” Damon said. “Everybody has to have that month
where we’re as good as Alex Rodriguez is. I’ve had that month before,
where I’m pretty darn good, and a bunch of these other guys have. All
of us just have to be really good.”
The Yankees could use a better starting rotation, but without
Chien-Ming Wang, Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes, this is the best they
can do. Starting Wednesday, three of the next four scheduled starters
were Sidney Ponson, Carl Pavano and Darrell Rasner.
Ponson failed to last five innings for the second start in a row. He
gave up four runs, seven hits and four walks over four and two-thirds
innings, and seven more runs scored against the overworked bullpen.
“I didn’t go deep in the game,” Ponson said. “I didn’t give us
a chance to win today. It’s hard. You bring your bullpen in early
for three or four days, it puts more pressure on those guys.”
Pedroia singled and scored twice against Ponson, driven in both times
by Jason Bay, who has 24 runs batted in over his first 23 games for
Boston. Bay connected in the eighth for a triple against Jose Veras,
who was charged with five runs.
The final two came on the grand slam by Pedroia, off a 2-0 fastball
from the rookie Dave Robertson. It crashed into the netting above
the retired numbers.
“I had to throw him a strike,” Robertson said. “You can’t walk guys.
I wish it would have been on the corner instead of where it was.”
Robertson said he was too disappointed in himself to notice the fans’
reaction. They groaned and began streaming out of the stadium, many
for the last time. There are 14 games left at Yankee Stadium, and
almost surely no more this October.
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