[新聞] Yankees Look to Melancon for Relief

看板NY-Yankees作者Ally1213 (牧羊貓 XD)時間17年前 (2009/04/27 15:57)推噓14(14推 0噓 4→)

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http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/yankees-look-to-melancon-for-relief/ Yankees Look to Melancon for Relief BOSTON – As much as his curveball, changeup and 95-mile-an-hour fastball, Mark Melancon’s makeup has stood out to the Yankees in the three years since they drafted him. Melancon is polite and respectful, yet confident in himself and not afraid to say so. Melancon, a 24-year-old right-hander, joined a bullpen in crisis on Saturday. In 57 career minor league games, he has a 2.15 earned run average and 114 strikeouts in 113 innings. He believes he could help answer the Yankees’ bullpen woes. “Definitely,” Melancon said.“I think once you get here, everybody’s pretty equal. If you go out and do your job and do what they ask of you, I don’t see why a first-year guy can’t do what somebody else that has some time can.” Manager Joe Girardi has seen good and bad from all of his incumbent setup men, so it is no surprise the Yankees are turning to some of the stars of their Class AAA bullpen. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre is 14-2 this season, and Melancon and Dave Robertson, who was also called up Saturday, had combined to strike out 31 in 18 1/3 innings, without allowing an earned run. “Down there, he and I were kind of in the same role,” Robertson said. “If it was a tight game, one of us was going into it. Now that we’re here, we’ re hoping to stay here. Me personally, I know I have to go out there with some 1-2-3 innings and earn myself a spot.” Robertson pitched two scoreless innings in the Yankee Stadium opener on April 16, and after a quick return trip to Scranton, he gave up Mike Lowell's three-run double on Saturday. Melancon, who grew up near Denver, said he had goosebumps when he visited Fenway Park on a family trip at age 14. It was a memorable feeling, he said, to see the field for the first time, coming up through the tunnel on the concourse. Back at Fenway on Saturday for his first day as a major leaguer, Melancon was not in awe. But as he walked across the field to the bullpen in the sixth inning, accompanied by Mariano Rivera, the magic of the moment still resonated. “I was soaking it all up, trying to just look at everything,” Melancon said. "I knew it was a pretty neat moment.” The way to succeed, Melancon said, would be the same in the majors as it is in the minors: throw low strikes and get ahead with the first pitch. As for his role, Girardi said he would try to ease him into pressure situations but might not have that luxury. “We want people to step up, that’s the bottom line,” Girardi said. “Step up, and you’re going to pitch.” As ragged as the bullpen has looked, with a 6.68 E.R.A. through Saturday, the starters are partly to blame. Their starters had worked only 92 1/3 innings, fewer than every other American League team except Baltimore and Oakland. “This is something we went through for most of last year, and our guys were able to survive,” Girardi said, referring to his relievers. “But that is not something you want to continually do, or they’ll be worn out by the break.” -- 宇宙裡的微小塵埃 http://www.wretch.cc/blog/AllyDai -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 203.71.94.31

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