[外電] Blue Jays: Chien-Ming Wang’s resurrection dovetails

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http://www.thestar.com/sports/bluejays/2013/06/22/blue_jays_chienming_wangs_resurrection_dovetails_nicely_with_teams_surge_dimanno.html Blue Jays: Chien-Ming Wang’s resurrection dovetails nicely with team’s surge: DiManno http://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/sports/bluejays/2013/06/22/blue_jays_chienming_wangs_resurrection_dovetails_nicely_with_teams_surge_dimanno/chienming_wang.jpg.size.xxlarge.promo.jpg

Given his solid performance over three starts for Toronto since signing with the club June 11, Wang deserves interim top billing among the Jays’ starters. Steve Russell / Toronto Star Toronto starter Chien-Ming Wang deals to an Orioles batter during his stellar seven-inning stint against the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday. The Jays extended their win streak to 10 games with a 4-2 victory. By: Rosie DiManno Columnist, Published on Sat Jun 22 2013 Don’t know the identity of the wise guy who had T-shirts made up that several Blue Jays have been wearing in the clubhouse lately. It reads, a tad sophomorically: Dickey, Johnson, Wang, each starting pitcher’s name a euphemism for male genitalia — the all-phallus rotation squad. Perhaps it should be Wang-Dickey-Johnson. Given his solid performance over three starts for Toronto since signing with the club June 11, Chien-Ming Wang deserves interim top billing. The 33-year-old made it into the seventh inning again in Saturday’s 4-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles as the Jays extended their win streak to 10 games, tying the second-best run in team history and steadily nudging above .500. Wang had a 2-1 lead in his pocket, looking poised and confident when manager John Gibbons called for Aaron Loup from the ’pen to face dangerous lefty Chris Davis. Loup promptly hit the batter and in the eighth inning Darren Oliver gave up a tying dinger so Wang had another no-decision for his efforts. But the pride of Taiwan — trailed by a posse of journalists who’ve made the long hike overseas just to document Wang’s resurrection from the minors — has now gone 16.2 innings without allowing an earned run, thanks to a correctly corrected scoring decision that turned Baltimore’s first run into an error for Emilio Bonifacio, before Jose Bautista’s 16th homer put the Jays ahead for keeps. Simultaneous with Toronto metamorphosing through June into the team they were expected to be when this fitful season began, Wang has also redrawn the parameters of his career. He’s actually turned into a good problem for the Jays to have because they will need to make some interesting decisions when Brandon Morrow and J.A. Happ come off the disabled list. This is not the starting quintet Toronto had envisioned, with Wang and Esmil Rogers snatching spots, each making valuable contributions during this W-surge. Wang, in particular, seemed little more than a footnote addition, a cross-your-fingers-and-hope-for-the-best stopgap acquisition who’d been toiling in Triple-A as a Yankee discard, far removed from his hard sinker glory days and back-to-back 19-win seasons in New York, 2006 and 2007. Gibbons was asked after the game by a Taiwanese reporter to confirm that Wang had well and truly entrenched himself in the rotation. “Morrow and Happ are a ways away so it’s way too early to even look at that. Let’s enjoy what he’s doing. He’s got no reason to look over his shoulder.” Wang had been looking over his shoulder at what might have been, wondering if it would ever be again, since a baserunning injury in 2008 followed by what seemed an irreversible slide towards baseball oblivion. The slowing sinker no longer discombobulated hitters and Wang’s pitching arsenal was thin after that. His Jays debut, against the White Sox, was not an eye-opening revelation for the coaching staff either. Wang was thereafter urged to reinvent himself, lickety-split, as a junk-ball thrower, going more frequently to a decent curve and breaking stuff. The mix kept the Orioles guessing on Saturday, eliciting a series of grounders, pop-ups and fly-ball outs as Wang scattered five hits. “That’s three really good ones,” Gibbons said of the right-hander’s trio of starts (1-0, 3.14). “He’s a part of it now. He’s given us a big boost, that’s for sure.” So why remove him after only 83 pitches, the Taiwanese contingent demanded to know. As, indeed, the move very nearly bit Gibbons in his posterior, though a double-play ball orchestrated by Neil Wagner in relief ended that threat. “We’re looking at a 2-1 game, we don’t have many hits. At that time, we’re eight outs away against a good-hitting ball club and Davis is probably the MVP in the league right now. He can change a game in a hurry. We wanted to give him a different look with a left-hander. “How much did (Wang) have left? He was still pretty strong but we’re looking for outs there. It was a no-brainer to me, and that’s no insult to Chien-Ming Wang.” The ensuing circumstances — Oliver surrendering a home run to Taylor Teagarden, who entered the game hitting, um, 0.69 — made it a taut finish, at least until Bautista shook off his recent doldrums, lighting up Darren O’Day, nice payback for whatever the reliever had said after striking out Bautista the previous evening. There was some serious jawing there, the Jays slugger displeased with what he’d heard or not quite heard. Bautista got the last word in as he crossed the plate, Rajai Davis just ahead of him. “I told him just to keep talking like he was yesterday, because he kind of ran his mouth a little bit after he struck me out. I don’t know where that came from but I didn’t appreciate it. I let him know that yesterday and that’s a little reminder today.” Not talking much in the clubhouse afterwards was Wang, who’s quiet- spoken in both Mandarin and English. “I had the sinker down, a lot of control.” He assessed what has been going right lately. “I don’t think too much. Before, every time I wanted to be perfect. A Wang-dang-doodle standing ovation escorted him off the mound. “Pretty happy, it’s been a long time.” -- -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 114.40.142.220

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