[新聞] 紐約郵報:大谷看起來是貝比魯斯
https://nypost.com/2018/04/08/the-con-is-over-and-shohei-ohtani-looks-ruthian/
The con is over, and Shohei Ohtani looks Ruthian
By Joel Sherman April 8, 2018 | 7:41pm
爭議結束了,大谷看起來是貝比魯斯
Shohei Ohtani pitches, hits and apparently hustles.
翔平忙碌於投打之間
It feels now like all of spring training for the Japanese phenom was a
sandbag, an effort to lower expectations after he arrived with about as much
fanfare as any player in quite a while.
現在覺得這個日本現象在春訓像一個沙包。努力降低了在他到達美國後的期望值
在相當長的一段時間內,任何球員都會激動不已。
--下面一些描述春訓表現,已經不重要了。--
I saw the righty pitch against — wait for it — the Tijuana Toros on March 9
in Tempe, Ariz., and if you watched the actions on the pitches without
looking at who was delivering them, you could have been convinced it was,
say, Jordan Zimmermann, but certainly not someone whom 30 teams were ready to
do everything short of changing naming rights on their stadium for.
He was beaten up that day by a bunch of players far from the majors in every
way, throwing in the low 90s and talking afterward about the need to better
familiarize himself with different-sized baseballs and different-shaped
mounds.
That blended into a spring in which he hit poorly (4-for-32 without an
extra-base hit) and pitched worse (nine runs in 2 2 /innings in games
against actual major league teams). There were calls for him to go to the
minors or just concentrate on pitching or that this all was an elaborate hoax
because no player had extensively pitched and hit in the same season since
1919, so this was darn near impossible — especially because that player was
the actual Babe Ruth and not nicknamed the Babe Ruth of Japan.
And then the season started, and like an illusionist he has quickly made the
spring disappear.
當球季開始時,如同幻覺般使得春訓印象完全消失。
He has homered in three of the four games in which he has batted. He pitched
well in his debut in Oakland on — fittingly — April Fools’ Day. And then
Sunday, Ohtani was almost downright perfect.
他在四場比賽中打了三發全壘打。他在奧克蘭首戰先發投得出色,相當地愚人節。
在星期日,大谷又幾乎投出完全比賽。
Ohtani showed his slider, but mainly used the devastating combination of
high-octane fastball and disappearing split to retire the first 19 A’s he
faced. Marcus Semien then lined a clean single to left in the seventh inning
and Jed Lowrie walked. But the 23-year-old then induced Khris Davis to ground
back to the mound before registering his 12th strikeout to end his effort.
大谷展現了他的滑球,主要是配合他高辛烷值的直球和會消失的指叉球,凡退了19個A
的打席。然後Marcus Semien打出了一支到左邊的乾淨一壘安打在七局時,Jed Lowrie
獲得保送。但這位23歲少年,使得Khris Davis擊出滾地球,之後以第12次三振,結束
了那天的投球。
Ohtani threw 91 pitches and got swings and misses on 24. He averaged 96.5 mph
with his fastball — reaching or topping 99 four times — and got a swing and
miss on nearly half of the splitters he threw, 16-of-34.
大谷投了91球,有24次被揮空。平均96.5英哩的球速,達到或超越99英哩4次。他投了
34顆指叉,其中16球被揮空。
So, at this moment, he has a 2.08 ERA, a 1.310 OPS and a growing group of
believers. Obviously, he will have to expand his success beyond the A’s.
現在他有2.08 ERA 1.310 OPS。明顯地,他將超越他對運動家的優勢。
But there is no doubt Ohtani is showing the power on both sides of the ball
that had so many try to seduce him to their franchise. He has a touch now of
Mark Fidrych and Fernando Valenzuela about him, which is to say a chance to
be the biggest star in the game in his rookie year. To have a baseball year
remembered specifically for him.
無疑的,大谷展現了他的二刀流,這也是很多球團之前急著簽下他的原因。
他極可能成為像Mark Fidrych 或是 Fernando Valenzuela這種頂級新秀。
有機會成為新秀賽季中最大的明星,這是他專屬的棒球年。
In the offseason, the two biggest additions and, thus, the two biggest
players to watch in 2018 were Ohtani by the Angels and Giancarlo Stanton by
the Yankees. And it has been Stanton — who only switched from the NL to the
AL — who has to date flopped, a strikeout machine evoking boos in The Bronx.
He has not done well honoring the legacy of the great slugger imported by the
Yankees, a lineage that began with Ruth.
今年休季時有二個大咖交易,一個是大谷加入天使,還有Stanton從國聯轉隊到美聯洋基
。在洋基球場Stanton被噓得很慘,是一個三振機器,失敗的交易。他不像是傳統的被交
易至洋基的強打者,一種始自貝比魯斯的血統。
Meanwhile, nearly 7,000 miles from home — and what feels that distance now
from spring training — Ohtani has appeared both comfortable and dominant
hitting and pitching.
相反地,離家7000哩,如同春訓和球季的距離。大谷表現出舒服又宰制的二刀流。
Two weeks into this experiment, he has met the greatest hopes. Ohtani has
been Ruthian.
實驗兩週後,他已經符合最大的期望,他已經像貝比魯斯了。
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