"The only way that you have to stop him from throwing [his sinker] is to cut the hand off," Guidry said. "And if he could still throw it, he would."
Rodriguez said that every pitch from Wang's hand looks like a strike. But when the Taiwanese hero found accuracy to complement his deception, the Angels couldn't bunch any hits together.
"I haven't met a player who likes to face him," Yankees captain Derek Jeter said. "When guys get to second base, they see how nasty he is."
And to think that the 53,921 in attendance at Yankee Stadium thought Wang's afternoon was over after the first inning. Not because of the Angels' offense, but because Mike Myers and Ron Villone were throwing in the bullpen.
Even Torre was confused. He didn't know why his relievers were warming up so early. Wang was fine, so Torre turned to Guidry and said, "What don't we like here?"
"If it was easy to figure out, no one would ever struggle," Jeter said. "No team would ever scuffle. Everyone would go out and they'd win every day, and they would hit every day. But it's a game of adjustments. You can't
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