[新聞] Yankees Find Winning Formula and Shut Down the Angels in Game 1
Yankees Find Winning Formula and Shut Down the Angels in Game 1
By TYLER KEPNER
Published: October 16, 2009
The American League Championship Series arrived at Yankee Stadium on Friday
with the icy blast of mid-winter and the blazing heat of C. C. Sabathia. The
go-go Los Angeles Angels might as well have worn snowshoes. They hardly used
their spikes.
There were no base-running high jinks by the Angels, no first-to-third
dashes, no daring leads, no stolen bases. Sabathia kept them stuck in their
tracks for eight innings of a 4-1 Yankees victory, allowing four hits and
striking out seven with a walk. He has done precisely what the Yankees wanted
when they made him the centerpiece to their off-season, winning the opening
game of the division series and now of the A.L.C.S.
The Yankees looked more like the Angels than the Angels did. They challenged
outfielders on the bases, played flawless defense and collected timely hits.
There were no home runs on a wind-whipped night, just resourceful hitting and
the knack for capitalizing on mistakes by the Angels.
The Angels earned a chance at the World Series partly because they made just
85 errors in the regular season, a franchise low. But they made three in Game
1, leading to two unearned runs off starter John Lackey.
Sabathia matched his reputation in the first inning, and the Angels upended
theirs. Sabathia makes a living pounding the strike zone, and that is what he
did. But the Angels, who have a reputation for not making mistakes, cost
themselves on defense.
Most pitchers try to attack the zone, but few have the stuff to do it as
confidently as Sabathia. He came out pitching fearlessly to the Angels, with
12 strikes out of 15 pitches in the first. Each of the first three hitters
faced an 0-2 count, and Bobby Abreu struck out looking on a slider.
The Angels helped the Yankees in the bottom of the inning. Derek Jeter won an
eight-pitch duel with Lackey, smacking a leadoff single to right, and then
Lackey sawed Johnny Damon’s bat. But Damon got enough of the ball to flick
it down the left field line, taking second when Juan Rivera’s throw sailed
to the middle of the infield for an error.
With runners at second and third, Alex Rodriguez drove in Jeter with a
one-out sacrifice fly to center. Lackey would have been out of the inning a
batter later, but Hideki Matsui’s pop up landed just past the infield dirt,
between shortstop Erick Aybar and third baseman Chone Figgins.
It seemed as if nobody called for it, and in any case, Aybar wore a ski mask
that covered his ears. He and Figgins looked at each other a moment before
the ball thudded to earth, and it must have been a miserable helpless
feeling: there was nothing to do but pick it up as Damon scored the second
run.
Lackey seethed as he watched the play, letting loose what seemed to be a roar
of frustration. It was hard to blame him: a 2-0 hole was a lot on a frigid
night with Sabathia on his game.
He struck out Kendry Morales on a changeup in the second inning, and got
Figgins and Abreu looking on 94 mile-an-hour four-seamers in the third. In
just three innings, against a contact-hitting team, Sabathia had registered
strikeouts with his changeup, slider and fastball.
The weather helped Sabathia in the fourth, but only momentarily. With one
out, Vladimir Guerrero reached down and punished a slider to left center. Off
the bat, it had the trajectory and the sound of a home run, but the flags
above left field told a different story. They blew straight in, and the wind
knocked the ball to the warning track.
Guerrero pulled his creaky body into second with a double, and he scored with
two outs on a single by Morales. It was the last base runner Sabathia allowed
until the seventh, when he had a 4-1 lead.
Damon, who was 1 for 12 in the division series, led off the Yankees’ fifth
with a double to left center. After Rodriguez walked with one out, Matsui
drove a double — a legitimate hit, this time — to left. Damon scored easily
and Rodriguez motored around third.
With his surgically repaired hip, Rodriguez has been less likely to take
extra bases this season. But he has been off for four days, and must have
felt spry enough to challenge the arms of Rivera and Aybar. He ended in a
heap at the plate with catcher Jeff Mathis, who lost his helmet and mask in
the collision, but not the ball.
Even in making an out, though, Rodriguez had taken the Angels’ game to them,
with daring and aggressive base running. There was more of the same in the
sixth, when it seemed as if the Angels, not the Yankees, were the ones on the
bases.
With two out and nobody on, Lackey walked Melky Cabrera for the second time.
Cabrera had drawn two walks in just one of his last 65 games, and despite
playing center field, he is not much of a stolen-base threat.
Yet he concerned Lackey enough to prompt a pickoff throw, which spun away
from Morales at first for an error. Cabrera took second, and scored the
Yankees’ second unearned run when Jeter blistered a single up the middle.
For good measure, the hit bounced off Torii Hunter’s glove for another error.
Lackey was finished after 114 pitches and five and two-thirds innings.
Sabathia, meanwhile, had just 80 pitches through six. Strong defense kept his
pitch count low.
In the sixth, Damon slid to rob Abreu of a hit and Sabathia nimbly grabbed
Hunter’s bunt and threw him out him at first. Hunter and Manager Mike
Scioscia argued, to no avail, that Mark Teixeira’s foot had come off the bag.
In the seventh, after a walk to Morales, Cano dove to his left to corral a
grounder by Howie Kendrick. Sabathia followed by striking out the
pinch-hitter Mike Napoli on a changeup, and he exulted on the mound, pumping
his fist and shouting.
It was the kind of reaction a pitcher might have at the end of a postseason
series, just before his joyous teammates swarm him in a dog pile. This series
is just beginning, but unless the Angels find themselves, it will not last
very long.
News source：
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/sports/baseball/17yankees.html?ref=sports
PS：今天贏球心情好，加上剛剛有板友希望我分紅，獨樂樂不如眾樂樂，
那就請大家隨便推一句今天洋基贏球之後的心情或是想說的話（來亂的不算）
第十樓：P幣 5,000
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第一百樓：P幣 20,000
(含"推"與"→"，請上述各層樓的板友自行寫信來給我，我確認之後就馬上發錢～)
Let's go, Yankees!!!!!
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