[From New York Times] ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Sept. 26 — They started the journey seven months ago, across the bay in spring training in Tampa. Joba Chamberlain was not invited, Roger Clemens was not signed, Melky Cabrera was not a starter and Carl Pavano was not hurt. 这个晋级的漫长旅程都是从七个月前的坦帕春训展开的。遥想当时，张伯伦还没进大联盟 老克也还没被签约，小卡布还不是固定先发，而Painvano也还很健康。 So much has changed, the season unfolding in surprising and sometimes painful ways. The Yankees lost 29 of their first 50 games, and did not really find their way until July. 季初的洋基不是像以前一样的势如破竹，而是从跌跌撞撞中走过。洋基在前五十场比赛中 输了二十九场。在七月之前的洋基根本不知道要怎麽赢球。 But the bumpy road has somehow brought them to their expected destination, the playoffs, for the 13th season in a row. With George Steinbrenner, their principal owner, watching from a private box at Tropicana Field, the Yankees clinched a spot in the postseason Wednesday night with a 12-4 wipeout of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. 但是布满荆棘的路却总是能到达最後的目的地，连续十三季闯进季後赛。在大老板观战 的情形下，洋基又一次的用12-4击败魔鬼鱼的胜利抢占季後赛的一个席次 The Yankees trail the Boston Red Sox in the American League East by three games with four to play, meaning the Yankees will enter the playoffs almost surely as the wild-card team. They have not taken that route since 1997, but history shows that wild-card winners have little, if any, disadvantage. 剩下四场比赛的洋基，在美联距离SOX还有三场胜差要追，这几乎笃定洋基会以外卡的名次 抢进季後赛。这是自从1997年後没有发生过的事。不过纪录告诉我们，塞翁失马， 焉知非福，是好是坏还很难说。 Six of the past 10 teams to reach the World Series were wild-card winners, including the 2006 Detroit Tigers, who eliminated the Yankees in a four-game division series last fall. This season, the Yankees are on track to play a different Central Division team, the Cleveland Indians, in the first round. 最近十次的世界大赛中有六次是由外卡球队晋级，包括06年的老虎，当时以3-1的比 数淘汰洋基。今年洋基会在第一轮面对不一样的对手，克利夫兰印地安人队。 Steinbrenner made it to Yankee Stadium for just one game this season, and he did not attend Tuesday’s game. But he was here for this one, wearing sunglasses and chatting on a cellphone, watching some of his more familiar veterans come through. 大老板今年到洋基球场看球不过一次，而且他星期二最後一场主场的比赛也没出席。但是 他今天戴着墨镜，拿着机仔出现了，看着他的爱将们为季後赛冲刺 Derek Jeter started the Yankees’ barrage against J. P. Howell with a home run to the left-field seats to lead off the fourth inning. An error, a walk and two groundouts made it 2-1, and in the fifth Jeter drove in the next run with a sacrifice fly. Jeter clapped his hands — once, vigorously, the way he does at big moments — after Doug Mientkiewicz crossed the plate. The Yankees were leading by two runs and rolling. (Jeter有一支炮的杰出表现，不重要不想翻) A walk and a hit batter loaded the bases. A single by Jorge Posada drove in two . Up stepped Robinson Cano', one of several left-handed hitters whose sluggish start had seemed to doom the Yankees. He blasted a three-run homer to right and finished with five runs batted in. (Jorge打了两分打点安打，Cano敲了三分炮... blah blah blah 我翻完了) The outburst gave Chien-Ming Wang plenty of support in his final start. Wang was 19-6 with a 3.63 earned run average in 2006, and he finishes this season with almost identical numbers: 19-7 with a 3.70 E.R.A., in three fewer starts. 这个打击爆发给本季最後一次先发王建民很多的奥援。小王在06年以19胜6败，3.63的ERA 坐收，而今年他的数据几乎和去年一样：19胜7败，3.70的ERA但是先发场次更少。 After Wang retired the side in the sixth inning — finishing, naturally, with two harmless groundouts — Chamberlain began to warm up in the bullpen. He has been the revelation of the Yankees’ season, a future starter, the team insists, who has overpowered hitters in 17 relief outings. 在六局被敲了两支无关痛伤的安打後小王下场休息。张伯伦在牛棚开始热身。被视为是洋 基本季惊奇，未来先发，和团队持续力的张伯伦，在十七场的出赛中主宰对手。 None of those have come on consecutive days, but that is about to change. Manager Joe Torre has been authorized to use Chamberlain in back-to-back games, in anticipation of doing so in October. Chamberlain allowed a hit in the seventh, but no runs. Earlier in the inning, Cabrera corralled a long drive by Carlos Pen~a while crashing into the padded center-field fence. Cabrera has been struggling for hits, but his exceptional range and arm in center were crucial in turning the season around. (靠夭勒，他才投一局就写两段，小王丢六局才写一段，这一切拢系阿共仔A阴谋啦~) So was the comeback by Cano' and the sensational season of Alex Rodriguez, as well as the steady play of Jeter, who has been nursing a sore right knee. Torre wants to rest all three down the stretch, and he can do that now. Clinching with four games to go had once seemed impossible. (Cano, a-god和jeter都要用剩下来的时间休息，接小王这麽多滚地球是该休息一下罗) "I thought it would come down to the last day,” Rodriguez said before the game . “I didn’t think we would have a cushion.” The Yankees waited until the weekend after the All-Star Game to rise above .500 for good. They did that here on July 14, in another victory by Wang. "我想球赛都要在最後一刻才见分晓，现在放弃还太早"，A-god说，"我不认为我需要多休 息来为季後赛备战" 洋基直到明星赛後一周的7月14日才将胜率拉回五成，当时就是小王拿下胜投。 Wang’s next start will probably be in Game 1 of a division series. That is just what the Yankees expected, seven long months ago. 小王下一次先发应该会在分区赛的第一场。这完全和洋基在七个月前计画的一模一样~ -- 以上 请鞭 --

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