Can Baseball Turn a 27-Year-Old Into the Perfect Manager?
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Brian Finke for The New York Times
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On Opening Day this spring, Justin Jirschele’s eyes popped wide open at 9 o’clock, and he determined his chances of falling back to sleep — he’s big on percentages — to be zero.
今年春天的开幕日，贾斯汀·耶舍勒 (Justin Jirschele) 在 9 点钟突然睁大了眼睛，他确定自己重新入睡的机会（他对百分比很在行）为零。
“Almost came to the park,” the 27-year-old said.
“差点就到公园了，”27 岁的他说。
Instead, the youngest manager in professional baseball fixed himself a bowl of cereal and downed it in bed while his new wife, Liz, tried to doze beside him.
相反，这位职业棒球界最年轻的经理给自己准备了一碗麦片粥，然后把它喝到床上，而他的新婚妻子莉兹则试图在他身边打瞌睡。
She has accepted that her marital contract will forever include disturbed nights.
她已经接受了她的婚姻契约将永远包括不安的夜晚。
Jirschele (pronounced JURSH-ah-lee) shares his apartment in Concord, N.C., with his 35-year-old pitching coach, Matt Zaleski, and his 28-year-old strength-and-conditioning coach, Goldy Simmons.
Jirschele（发音为 JURSH-ah-lee）与他 35 岁的投手教练 Matt Zaleski 和 28 岁的体能教练 Goldy Simmons 住在北卡罗来纳州康科德的公寓。
(Liz was just visiting from their permanent home in Madison, Wis.) After Jirschele watched some videos of deer being stalked to “calm the mind a little bit,” he decided everybody might as well head to work.
（莉兹刚刚从他们位于威斯康星州麦迪逊市的永久住所来访。）在吉尔舍勒观看了一些鹿被跟踪以“让心情平静下来”的视频后，他决定每个人都去上班吧。
Together, they bundled into Zaleski’s Subaru and made the short drive to Kannapolis, home of the Intimidators — the Low-A farm team of the Chicago White Sox — and the first official game of Jirschele’s managerial career.
他们一起挤进扎莱斯基的斯巴鲁，短途驱车前往坎纳波利斯，那里是威吓者队（芝加哥白袜队的低 A 农场球队）的主场，也是耶舍勒执教生涯的第一场正式比赛。
It was 12:10 when they rolled in.
他们到达时已是中午12点10分了。
First pitch was scheduled for 7:05.
第一次投球时间定于 7 点 05 分。
By the standards of his profession, Jirschele is extraordinarily young.
按照他的职业标准，耶舍勒非常年轻。
His first opposing manager, Marty Malloy of the Lakewood (N.J.) BlueClaws, is 45.
他的第一位对手主教练是新泽西州莱克伍德蓝爪队的马蒂·马洛伊，现年 45 岁。
His second, when the Rome (Ga.) Braves came to town, was the 59-year-old Randy Ingle, a member of the South Atlantic League Hall of Fame who began managing the year Jirschele was born.
当罗马（佐治亚州）勇士队来到这座城市时，他的第二任球员是59岁的兰迪·英格尔（Randy Ingle），他是南大西洋联盟名人堂的成员，在耶舍勒出生的那年开始执教。
“He’s young,” Ingle said, “but if you’re a good baseball person, that’s not too young.”
“他很年轻，”英格尔说，“但如果你是一名优秀的棒球运动员，那也不算太年轻了。”
Jirschele is a good baseball person.
耶舍勒是一名出色的棒球运动员。
His grandfather Don managed amateurs enough to have the ballpark in Clintonville, Wis., named after him.
他的祖父唐（Don）对业余球员的管理足够出色，以至于威斯康星州克林顿维尔（Clintonville）的棒球场以他的名字命名。
Justin’s father, Mike, spent 36 years in the minors as a player and manager before he became the third-base coach for the Kansas City Royals in 2014 and earned a World Series ring in 2015.
贾斯汀的父亲迈克在小联盟中担任了 36 年的球员和教练，之后于 2014 年成为堪萨斯城皇家队的三垒教练，并于 2015 年赢得了世界大赛戒指。
His older brother, Jeremy, played in the Royals’ organization and is now the head coach at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
他的哥哥杰里米曾在皇家队效力，现在是威斯康星大学史蒂文斯波因特分校的主教练。
Justin Jirschele has spent his life in baseball clubhouses, including four years playing in the White Sox organization, mostly as a shortstop and second baseman.
贾斯汀·耶舍勒 (Justin Jirschele) 一生都在棒球俱乐部度过，其中包括在白袜队 (White Sox) 效力四年，主要担任游击手和二垒手。
His manager on a High-A team in Winston-Salem, N.C., a genial former catcher named Tommy Thompson — gut, silver hair, ever-present bat in his callused hands, the movie version of a coach — was one of the first to spot his leadership potential.
他在北卡罗来纳州温斯顿塞勒姆一支高 A 球队的经理是一位和蔼可亲的前接球手，名叫汤米·汤普森 (Tommy Thompson)，他有着内脏，银发，长满老茧的手中始终握着球棒，就像电影版的教练一样，他是最先发现他领导潜力的人之一。
There was something almost surprisingly old-fashioned about Thompson’s hunch, like a fisherman following birds to the fish.
令人惊讶的是，汤普森的预感有些过时，就像渔夫跟着鸟儿去钓鱼一样。
“Great baseball blood,” Thompson says.
“伟大的棒球血统，”汤普森说。
“There’s something about managing that you grow to.
“管理中有一些东西是你成长起来的。
I think he’s that guy.”
我认为他就是那个人。”
Jirschele had been promoted to a Double-A team in Birmingham, Ala., when Nick Capra, then Chicago’s director of player development, sat him down in the dugout before a game and told him that his baseball mind, not his arm or his bat, was his bigger asset, and the organization’s.
耶舍勒在阿拉巴马州伯明翰被提升为双A球队，当时芝加哥队球员发展总监尼克·卡普拉在比赛前让他坐在教练席上，告诉他，他的棒球头脑，而不是他的手臂或球棒，才是他和球队更大的资产。
“He was probably the best player on the field with the least amount of talent,” Capra says.
“他可能是球场上天赋最少但最好的球员，”卡普拉说。
“He did all the little things.
“他做了所有的小事。
That stood out.” The White Sox needed a hitting coach in Great Falls, Mont., to work with their Advanced Rookie-level Voyagers.
这很突出。”白袜队需要一位位于蒙大拿州大瀑布市的击球教练来与他们的高级新秀级别航行者队一起工作。
Did Jirschele want the job?
吉尔舍勒想要这份工作吗？
He was just 24.
他当时才24岁。
Capra’s offer was the beginning of an unusual experiment.
卡普拉的提议是一项不寻常实验的开始。
Maybe the struggling White Sox didn’t have to wait till Jirschele was grizzled.
也许苦苦挣扎的白袜队不必等到吉尔舍勒头发花白。
Maybe baseball intelligence can be put on a path of accelerated development just like the game’s young bodies.
也许棒球智力可以像运动中年轻的身体一样走上加速发展的道路。
Maybe managers don’t have to look like guys who hang around dog tracks.
也许管理者不必看起来像那些在狗场闲逛的人。
Or maybe managers are who they are for a reason, and in them we see an increasingly rare instance of baseball’s ancient practices standing up to modern scrutiny.
或者，也许管理者之所以如此，是有原因的，在他们身上，我们看到了棒球古老做法经得起现代审视的越来越罕见的例子。
Jirschele asked for a little time to think about his choice, even though he had already made it.
耶舍勒要求给他一点时间考虑一下他的选择，尽管他已经做出了选择。
He called Liz, who was back in school in Wisconsin.
他给回到威斯康星州学校的莉兹打了电话。
She left class to cry a little, the way Sheri Jirschele, Mike’s wife, cried when he called it quits on his own playing career.
她离开教室哭了一会儿，就像迈克的妻子雪莉·吉尔舍勒(Sheri Jirschele)在他宣布结束自己的职业生涯时哭的那样。
“It was just the end of a chapter,” Liz says.
“这只是一个章节的结束，”莉兹说。
“I was sad that I couldn’t see him in person, playing for the last time.”
“我很遗憾无法亲眼见到他，最后一次比赛。”
Justin didn’t think much at all about the move, just as he had never given much thought to a life outside the game.
贾斯汀对于此举并没有考虑太多，就像他从来没有考虑过比赛之外的生活一样。
“I can’t turn that down,” he said.
“我无法拒绝，”他说。
The opportunity in Montana wouldn’t wait for him.
蒙大拿州的机会不会等他。
He played one final game, beating out an infield chopper to short for his last hit.
他打了最后一场比赛，击败了一名内场切球手，完成了最后一次安打。
“That’s when I knew,” he told me with a wry smile.
“那时我就知道了，”他苦笑着告诉我。
“A chinker, a cheap hit.
“一个中国佬，一个廉价的打击。
That’s how I want to go out, right there.” The next morning, he told Capra he was ready to go to Great Falls.
这就是我想要出去的方式，就在那里。”第二天早上，他告诉卡普拉他准备去大瀑布城。
He had passed his first test as a future maker of big decisions.
他已经通过了作为未来重大决策者的第一次考验。
After Jirschele spent just a year as the Voyagers’ hitting coach, and then another in the same position in Kannapolis, the White Sox deemed him ready to manage.
耶舍勒在航行者队担任击球教练一年后，又在坎纳波利斯担任同一职位，白袜队认为他已经做好了执教的准备。
As Zaleski pulled into the parking lot beyond the left-field fence at Intimidators Stadium, Jirschele was about to put himself eight years ahead of even his father’s fast early pace.
当扎莱斯基把车驶入恐吓者体育场左场围栏外的停车场时，耶舍勒即将让自己比他父亲早期的快速步伐领先八年。
Mike didn’t manage A-ball until he was 34.
迈克直到 34 岁才开始打 A 球。
Justin was wearing jeans and cowboy boots when he walked into his office, a wall-size locker across from his neat battleship of a desk.
当贾斯汀走进办公室时，他穿着牛仔裤和牛仔靴，整洁的战舰式办公桌对面有一个墙壁大小的储物柜。
He put four giant bottles of iced tea in his fridge — “That’s my natural geek,” he said, “and better for me than Diet Coke” — and dropped his jeans.
他在冰箱里放了四大瓶冰茶——“这就是我天生的极客，”他说，“比健怡可乐对我来说更好”——然后脱下了牛仔裤。
Eight minutes after his arrival at the park, he was in uniform.
到达公园八分钟后，他就穿上了制服。
He wore his pants long.
他穿的裤子很长。
He kept the brim of his cap straight and low.
他把帽檐压得笔直、低低。
The only reason he didn’t look like a player was the absence of a cup.
他看起来不像一名球员的唯一原因是没有奖杯。
He took out a blank sheet of white paper and drew a baseball field on it.
他拿出一张白纸，在上面画了一个棒球场。
He began writing the names of his starting lineup in each position, and then he got to work on his batting order.
他开始写下每个位置的首发阵容的名字，然后开始制定击球顺序。
He was confirming what he already knew.
他正在确认他已经知道的事情。
“I’ve been thinking about this lineup since March 1,” he said, referring to the start of spring training.
“从3月1日起我就一直在考虑这个阵容，”他指的是春训开始时说道。
It was April 6.
那是 4 月 6 日。
At 12:35 p.m., he pulled out his first official lineup card.
中午12点35分，他拿出了自己的第一张正式阵容卡。
He took a black Sharpie and began writing nine names in block letters.
他拿起一支黑色记号笔，开始用大写字母写下九个名字。
BOOKER CF FISHER LF ZAVALA C DULIN 1B RODRIGUEZ DH ADOLFO RF REMILLARD 3B ROMAN 2B MASSEY SS
布克 CF 费舍尔 LF 扎瓦拉 C 杜林 1B 罗德里格斯 DH 阿道夫 RF 雷米拉德 3B 罗马 2B 梅西 SS
He walked out of his office and tacked the card to the bulletin board in the hallway.
他走出办公室，把卡片钉在走廊的公告板上。
He went back into his office, poured some tea into a plastic cup filled with ice and looked at the clock on his wall.
他回到自己的办公室，在装满冰块的塑料杯里倒了一些茶，然后看了看墙上的时钟。
He had 6 hours 24 minutes and however many seasons to go.
他还有 6 小时 24 分钟的时间，还有多少个赛季要打。
Rick Renteria, the 55-year-old manager of the White Sox, does not fill out his own lineup cards.
55岁的白袜队主教练里克·伦特里亚(Rick Renteria)并没有填写自己的阵容卡。
One of his several coaches — hitting, assistant hitting, pitching, bench, bullpen, first base, third base — does it for him.
他的几位教练中的一位——击球、助理击球、投球、板凳、牛棚、一垒、三垒——为他做这件事。
Before a late-June game against the Texas Rangers, he sat in the Chicago dugout surrounded by reporters.
六月下旬对阵德克萨斯游骑兵队的比赛之前，他坐在芝加哥的休息室里，周围都是记者。
They asked Renteria about a terrible incident the night before, when a New York Yankees prospect named Dustin Fowler, in the first inning of his major-league career, chased a foul ball and slammed into the railing at Guaranteed Rate Field, rupturing his right patellar tendon.
他们向伦特里亚询问了前一天晚上发生的一件可怕的事件，当时纽约洋基队的新秀达斯汀·福勒在他大联盟职业生涯的第一局中，追逐一个界外球并撞到了保证率球场的栏杆上，导致他的右髌腱断裂。
Renteria said he had watched Fowler race toward the track and thought, Slow down a little bit, slow down.
伦特里亚说，他看着福勒冲向跑道，心想，慢一点，慢一点。
“I think he was just totally focused on that baseball,” Renteria said.
“我认为他只是完全专注于那个棒球，”伦特里亚说。
Fowler’s own heartsick manager, Joe Girardi, stood over him and wept.
福勒自己伤心欲绝的经理乔·吉拉迪站在他身边哭泣。
The easy line is that baseball is baseball, no matter where it’s being played.
简单地说，棒球就是棒球，无论在哪里进行。
It’s balls and strikes.
这是球和击球。
But compared with Kannapolis, Chicago swings a really heavy bat.
但与坎纳波利斯相比，芝加哥的球棒确实很重。
Rick Hahn, the general manager of the White Sox, uses the word “volume” to describe the demands of the big-league game on its managers.
白袜队总经理里克·哈恩用“数量”这个词来形容大联盟比赛对其经理人的要求。
He means it in both senses of the word: There is so much of everything, and all of it is so loud.
他的意思是这个词的两个意思：一切都如此之多，而且一切都如此响亮。
Hahn, 46, is the epitome of today’s baseball executive.
46 岁的哈恩是当今棒球高管的缩影。
He never played.
他从来没有打过球。
A former baseball agent, he has degrees from Harvard Law and the Kellogg School of Management.
他曾是一名棒球经纪人，拥有哈佛法学院和凯洛格管理学院的学位。
He has been charged with tearing down and rebuilding the White Sox, and he has been busy assembling a young roster, employing a religious devotion to the rigorous statistical analysis that has transformed the game.
他肩负着摧毁和重建白袜队的重任，他一直忙于组建一支年轻的阵容，虔诚地致力于严格的统计分析，从而改变了比赛。
He has also pushed the White Sox organization to mine itself for more people like Justin Jirschele: the coaches, scouts and executives who will help those unpolished players reach their potential.
他还推动白袜队挖掘更多像贾斯汀·耶舍勒这样的人：教练、球探和高管，他们将帮助那些未经打磨的球员发挥他们的潜力。
“We’re trying to develop talent that ultimately will let us win in Chicago,” he said.
“我们正在努力培养人才，最终让我们在芝加哥获胜，”他说。
“The message has to be the same throughout the system.”
“整个系统中的消息必须相同。”
The challenge for Hahn is that it’s far more difficult for him to evaluate intellectual capital than physical assets.
哈恩面临的挑战是，评估智力资本比评估实物资产困难得多。
No radar gun exists for brains.
不存在用于大脑的雷达枪。
Winning percentage, the only statistic by which managers can be measured, isn’t useful at the minor-league level, because a minor-league coach’s principal assignment is player development.
胜率是衡量教练的唯一统计数据，但在小联盟级别没有用，因为小联盟教练的主要任务是球员发展。
Winning can’t come at the cost of burning out a young arm, for instance, and if Jirschele does his job well, he will continually lose his best students to the higher minors in Winston-Salem or Birmingham.
例如，胜利不能以耗尽年轻手臂为代价，如果耶舍勒做得很好，他将不断地将最好的学生输给温斯顿塞勒姆或伯明翰的高级未成年人。
“We don’t even look at winning percentage,” Hahn says.
“我们甚至不考虑胜率，”哈恩说。
“It’s more about their ability to communicate across the entire dugout, to teach and evaluate their own players.
“更重要的是他们在整个教练席上进行沟通、教导和评估自己球员的能力。
It’s much harder because it’s not quantifiable.
这要困难得多，因为它无法量化。
You’re dealing with a softer science.”
你正在处理一门更软的科学。”
That means managers are the last objects of baseball’s more ineffable wisdoms.
这意味着经理是棒球界更难以言喻的智慧的最后对象。
They are expected to translate the projections of their front offices into measurable reality, but they are themselves immune to dispassionate analysis, the way a tool can’t be used on itself.
人们期望他们将管理层的预测转化为可衡量的现实，但他们本身不受冷静分析的影响，就像工具不能用于自身一样。
Even the forward-thinking Hahn can’t envision a day when a manager will wear a suit and behave as purely as he does.
即使是有远见的哈恩也无法想象有一天，教练会穿着西装，表现得像他一样纯粹。
“Too much of the managerial job is beyond playing the right percentages,” he says.
“太多的管理工作超出了发挥正确百分比的范围，”他说。
Managers are the game’s aristocrats, powerless next to the Ivy League quants who have become the faces of their franchises but comparatively divine.
经理们是这个游戏的贵族，在常春藤联盟的宽客面前无能为力，这些宽客已经成为他们球队的代言人，但相对神圣。
Renteria is as much a type as Hahn.
Renteria 与 Hahn 一样都是一种类型。
He was a marginal-but-diligent player who began coaching and later managed in the low minors, working his way up the ladder before he finally arrived in the majors, extolled for intangible virtues like his patience and class.
他是一名边缘但勤奋的球员，从教练开始，后来在低级别的小联盟中进行管理，在最终进入大联盟之前，他一直在努力向上，并因其耐心和阶级等无形美德而受到赞扬。
(Executives sometimes talk about their managers as if they were talking about their family’s venerable butler.) Renteria’s White Sox are not built to win right now, which means his job is to help guide the team to its best possible future self.
（高管们有时在谈论他们的经理时就好像在谈论他们家族中受人尊敬的管家一样。） Renteria 的白袜队现在并不是为了获胜而生的，这意味着他的工作是帮助引导球队走向未来最好的自己。
Watching him work — equally fluent in Spanish, English and baseball — he seems well suited for that thankless task, but not in a way that can be easily articulated or proved.
看着他工作——同样流利的西班牙语、英语和棒球——他似乎非常适合这项吃力不讨好的任务，但不是以一种可以轻易表达或证明的方式。
Hahn uses vague words like “communicator” and “teacher” when describing Renteria’s gifts.
哈恩在描述伦特里亚的天赋时使用了“沟通者”和“老师”等模糊词语。
Renteria says a good baseball manager takes what might have been an adequate painting and, through his experience and instinct, turns it into a Picasso.
伦特里亚说，一位优秀的棒球经理会根据自己的经验和直觉，将一幅可能足够好的画作变成毕加索的作品。
“I love numbers, I use numbers, they’re important indicators for me,” Renteria says.
“我喜欢数字，我使用数字，它们对我来说是重要的指标，”伦特里亚说。
“But you have to give that information a life of its own.
“但你必须赋予这些信息自己的生命。
The human element.”
人的因素。”
At spring training this year, Jirschele said that Renteria walked over to the remote corner of the White Sox camp where the Intimidators were learning how to run bases and banged against the fence.
耶舍勒说，在今年的春训中，伦特里亚走到白袜队训练营的偏远角落，恐吓者队正在那里学习如何跑垒，并撞上了栅栏。
“Keep working, boys,” Renteria hollered.
“继续努力，孩子们，”伦特里亚喊道。
“Don’t ever quit.” For outsiders, it might have seemed a moment without consequence, not exactly Churchill encouraging his men on the beach.
“永远不要放弃。”对于局外人来说，这似乎是一个没有后果的时刻，而不是丘吉尔在海滩上鼓励他的士兵。
But Jirschele said it meant so much for his players that the big-league manager had taken the time to visit them on the back fields.
但耶舍勒表示，这对他的球员来说意义重大，以至于大联盟主教练花时间去后场看望他们。
“I had the chills,” Jirschele said.
“我感到发冷，”耶舍勒说。
Here’s the quandary for someone like Hahn: How do you measure either Renteria’s gesture or Jirschele’s gooseflesh?
对于哈恩这样的人来说，面临的困境是：你如何衡量伦特里亚的手势或耶舍勒的鸡皮疙瘩？
Can you even begin to try?
你能开始尝试吗？
I spoke to a number of people within the White Sox organization and asked them why Jirschele was such a good candidate to become someone like Renteria.
我与白袜队组织内的一些人进行了交谈，并询问他们为什么耶舍勒是成为伦特里亚这样的人的最佳候选人。
Chris Getz, Chicago’s current director of player development and a former major-league infielder with the Royals, played for Mike Jirschele on a Triple-A team in Omaha.
克里斯·盖兹 (Chris Getz) 是芝加哥队现任球员发展总监，也是皇家队的前大联盟内野手，曾在奥马哈的一支 3A 球队中为迈克·耶舍勒 (Mike Jirschele) 效力。
He says he sees a lot of the father in the son.
他说他在儿子身上看到了很多父亲的影子。
“He’s still green,” Getz says, “but he has the heart and desire to be just like his dad.” These are cool, clinical times in baseball, and it doesn’t get much cooler or more clinical than Chicago.
“他还很年轻，”盖茨说，“但他有一颗心，也渴望像他的父亲一样。”这是棒球界很酷、临床的时代，没有比芝加哥更酷、更临床的了。
Yet Getz’s answer, like Tommy Thompson’s early assessment, like every other answer I heard, when boiled down to its essence, was something less than mathematical fact.
然而，正如汤米·汤普森的早期评估一样，盖茨的回答也像我听到的所有其他答案一样，归结到其本质，并不是数学事实。
It was something more like blood.
那是一种更像血的东西。
Only at the very top of baseball’s pyramid is the goal singular, and the resources available to the 30 managers charged with winning the World Series are spectacular.
只有棒球金字塔的最顶端才是唯一的目标，而负责赢得世界大赛的 30 名经理可以使用的资源非常丰富。
There are no mysteries in the major leagues.
大联盟中没有什么神秘的事情。
By the time a player reaches such great heights, he will have been dissected by an army of scouts, even his slightest tendencies betrayed by repeat viewings.
当一名球员达到如此高的高度时，他就会被一大批球探仔细剖析，即使是他最轻微的倾向也会因反复观看而暴露。
Justin Jirschele will often face players he has never seen and might never see again.
贾斯汀·耶舍勒（Justin Jirschele）经常会面对他从未见过并且可能再也见不到的球员。
He watches opposition teams take infield and batting practice, but it’s hard for him to know how representative those pregame displays are of a player’s abilities.
他观看对手球队的内场和击球练习，但他很难知道这些赛前表现对球员的能力有多大代表性。
He started the season with Micker Adolfo, a right fielder with an exceptional arm — “a 70,” Jirschele said, near the top of the charts — that he doesn’t always show off during warm-ups.
他与米克·阿道夫一起开始了这个赛季，米克·阿道夫是一名右外野手，有着一双出色的手臂——耶舍勒说，“70”，接近排行榜的顶端——但他并不总是在热身时炫耀。
The relative arm strength of outfielders is one of the most critical variables in the decision whether to send or hold runners.
外野手的相对手臂力量是决定是否派出或留住跑垒员的最关键变量之一。
Unlike his father in Kansas City, Jirschele doesn’t always have that information available to him.
与他在堪萨斯城的父亲不同，耶舍勒并不总是能掌握这些信息。
It’s as if he’s missing an essential value from his equation, but he still has to provide an answer.
就好像他的方程中遗漏了一个基本值，但他仍然必须提供答案。
His first managerial decision, outside his lineup, came in the bottom of the first inning of his first game, against the Lakewood BlueClaws.
他在阵容之外的第一个管理决定是在他的第一场比赛对阵莱克伍德蓝爪队的第一局下半时做出的。
Managers in A-ball, as if they don’t have enough on their minds, also coach third base, tasked with deciding when to send or hold runners rounding for home.
A 球的经理们似乎没有足够的心思，还执教三垒，负责决定何时派出或让跑垒员绕回本垒。
Jirschele looks alarmingly like his father when he’s out there: the same stance, the same mannerisms, the same way of delivering signs to hitters and runners.
当耶舍勒在场上时，他看起来与他的父亲惊人地相似：相同的立场，相同的举止，相同的向击球手和跑垒员传递信号的方式。
Once while Jirschele was still playing in Winston-Salem, Tommy Thompson decided to send his prized pupil out to coach third base.
有一次，当耶舍勒还在温斯顿塞勒姆打球时，汤米·汤普森决定派他最得意的学生去担任三垒教练。
“Threw him in the fire,” Thompson says.
“把他扔进火里，”汤普森说。
As it happened, according to Thompson, Carlos Rodon — then a top prospect, now in the big leagues — was pitching that night, and the White Sox front office had unexpectedly tuned into the game.
据汤普森称，当时卡洛斯·罗登（Carlos Rodon）——当时是一名顶级新秀，现在已进入大联盟——那天晚上正在投球，而白袜队的管理层出人意料地关注了这场比赛。
There was some consternation when they heard that a young teammate was managing Chicago’s first-round pick.
当他们听说一名年轻队友正在管理芝加哥的首轮选秀权时，他们感到有些惊愕。
The phone rang in the dugout in Winston-Salem.
温斯顿塞勒姆防空洞里的电话响了。
Rodon doesn’t remember that little tempest.
罗登不记得那场小小的风暴。
“Jirsch probably was so good,” he says, “he would have just seemed like a normal manager.
“吉尔希可能太优秀了，”他说，“他看起来就像一个普通的经理。
I probably didn’t even realize he was out there.”
我可能根本没有意识到他就在那里。”
Now Jirschele stood in the coach’s box in Kannapolis.
现在，耶舍勒站在坎纳波利斯的教练包厢里。
In lieu of the statistical bibles available to his major-league counterparts, he had to do his own scouting.
他必须自己进行球探，而不是向大联盟同行提供统计圣经。
He pulled a stopwatch from his back pocket, measuring the time it took Lakewood’s starting pitcher, JoJo Romero, to deliver the ball to the catcher.
他从后面的口袋里掏出一个秒表，测量莱克伍德的首发投手乔乔·罗梅罗将球传给接球手所需的时间。
The average pitcher takes about 1.3 seconds to complete his motion.
投手平均需要大约 1.3 秒才能完成动作。
If a pitcher is quicker than that, it’s harder to steal on him; a slower pitcher becomes a target.
如果投手速度比这快，那么就很难偷窃他的球；较慢的投手成为目标。
Romero was inconsistent, sometimes taking 1.1 seconds to deliver, sometimes taking as long as 1.5 when he really put his body into it.
罗梅罗的表现不稳定，有时需要1.1秒才能发球，有时当他真正投入身体时却需要长达1.5秒。
Jirschele was in the middle of filing away that fragment of future intelligence when his leadoff hitter, Joel Booker, beat out an infield hit.
耶舍勒正在整理未来情报的片段，这时他的首席击球手乔尔·布克击出了内野安打。
Jameson Fisher, batting second, then laced a double to center.
詹姆森·费舍尔（Jameson Fisher）第二击，然后打出双垒安打到中锋。
Booker’s fast, and as he raced around second he was thinking he might score.
布克速度很快，当他跑到第二名时，他认为自己可能会得分。
But Jirschele elected to hold him up at third.
但耶舍勒选择将他保持在第三位。
Some of the fans in attendance booed.
一些到场的球迷发出嘘声。
Jirschele had received his first catcalls.
耶舍勒第一次收到了嘘声。
His father’s first season with the Royals ended with a similar decision under far different circumstances.
他父亲在皇家队的第一个赛季在截然不同的情况下以类似的决定结束。
In the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 of the World Series, Kansas City was trailing the San Francisco Giants, 3-2.
世界大赛第七场第九局下半，堪萨斯城以 3-2 落后旧金山巨人队。
With two out and nobody on, Alex Gordon lifted a ball that fell just out of reach of center fielder Gregor Blanco.
在两人出局、无人上场的情况下，亚历克斯·戈登举起的球正好落在中外野手格雷戈尔·布兰科够不着的地方。
After the ball skipped by Blanco, left fielder Juan Perez, who was out of position because he thought Blanco was going to make the catch, kicked it around the warning track.
布兰科跳过球后，左外野手胡安·佩雷斯（Juan Perez）因认为布兰科将要接球而失去了位置，将球踢出了警告跑道。
Gordon kept churning around the bases, nearly tripping over second on his way to third.
戈登不断地在垒上翻滚，在通往第三垒的途中差点被第二垒绊倒。
Perez finally corralled the ball and threw on a hop to Brandon Crawford, San Francisco’s strong-armed shortstop.
佩雷斯最终将球挡住，并将球传给旧金山队的强力游击手布兰登·克劳福德。
He turned just as Gordon rounded third.
当戈登获得第三名时，他转身。
Jirschele held him up.
耶舍勒扶起他。
The next hitter, Salvador Perez, popped out.
下一位击球手萨尔瓦多·佩雷斯（Salvador Perez）弹出。
The game, series and season were over, the tying run stranded 90 feet from home.
比赛、系列赛和赛季都结束了，平局在距离主场 90 英尺的地方搁浅。
I was at the game, watching it with the extended Jirschele family.
我当时也在场，和耶舍勒大家庭一起观看了比赛。
I’d written about Mike’s long journey to the majors that spring and committed the cardinal journalistic sin of falling in love with my subject.
那年春天，我写了迈克进入专业的漫长旅程，并犯下了爱上我的主题的新闻罪。
It was crushing, seeing Mike walk around the Giants’ celebration to get from third base to the Kansas City dugout.
看到迈克在巨人队的庆祝活动中从三垒走到堪萨斯城的休息区，真是令人心碎。
By the time he emerged from the clubhouse, he had already been asked several times about his call.
当他从俱乐部会所出来时，已经有人多次询问他的电话情况。
He was baffled by the emerging debate about it.
他对围绕这个问题不断出现的争论感到困惑。
Later that night, the family piled into a hotel room near the ballpark for a commiseration drunk, and Mike explained his decision again and again, trying to figure out whether he had been wrong.
那天晚上晚些时候，一家人涌进棒球场附近的一家酒店房间，向一个醉酒的人表示同情，迈克一遍又一遍地解释他的决定，试图弄清楚他是否错了。
(Future independent analysis proved that he had been right.) I was stunned by everything he considered in the 13 seconds it took Gordon to reach him.
（未来的独立分析证明他是对的。）戈登在 13 秒内想到的一切让我震惊。
He based his call, at least in part, on how cleanly Crawford received that hop from Juan Perez, exactly where the ball ended up in his glove, in the heart of the pocket.
他的判罚至少在一定程度上是基于克劳福德从胡安·佩雷斯那里接球的干净程度，球最终落在他手套里的口袋中央。
Mike also looked at Crawford’s feet, how well positioned he was to make the throw home.
迈克还观察了克劳福德的脚，看看他投球的位置有多好。
In some ways, 36 years of experience factored into that fateful stop sign.
从某些方面来说，36 年的经验是造成这个致命停车标志的因素。
For Justin Jirschele, his first decision — to hold Joel Booker in the first inning of his first game — was equally justified.
对于贾斯汀·耶舍勒（Justin Jirschele）来说，他的第一个决定——在第一场比赛的第一局中抓住乔尔·布克（Joel Booker）——同样是合理的。
He can make a case for everything he does, which is one of the things the White Sox like about him: He’s a rational actor.
他可以为自己所做的一切辩护，这也是白袜队喜欢他的地方之一：他是一个理性的演员。
He might not always be right, but he always has his reasons, and even baseball’s most feel-driven reactionaries like to think that at least a little logic is at work.
他可能并不总是正确的，但他总是有他的理由，甚至棒球界最受感觉驱动的反动派也喜欢认为至少有一点逻辑在起作用。
There was nobody out (“That’s the biggest one, nobody out,” he said after), and seeing his lead runner gunned down at the plate for the first out would be no way to start his career.
没有人出局（“这是最大的一个，没有人出局，”他后来说），并且看到他的领跑者在第一个出局时就被枪杀，这将无法开始他的职业生涯。
“We had the chance for a huge inning,” he said.
“我们有机会打出一局精彩的比赛，”他说。
Booker eventually made it home when the Kannapolis cleanup hitter, Brandon Dulin, grounded a ball to second.
当坎纳波利斯的击球手布兰登·杜林（Brandon Dulin）将球击落到第二位时，布克最终成功回家。
Booker’s run proved to be the only one of the inning, but it will always be Jirschele’s first.
布克的跑动被证明是这一局中唯一的一分，但这永远是耶舍勒的第一分。
The lead it provided was temporary.
它提供的线索是暂时的。
Everything else about that run was permanent.
关于那次跑步的其他一切都是永久性的。
His managerial career was no longer potential, or only potential; now he had the beginnings of a history, which meant he could start being judged.
他的执教生涯不再是潜力，或者说仅仅是潜力；而是潜力。现在他已经开始了一段历史，这意味着他可以开始受到评判。
After most games, Jirschele calls his father, and together they might talk for an hour or more, first working through Mike’s big-league game in Kansas City or Boston or New York and next Justin’s Low-A game in Kannapolis or Hickory, N.C., or Hagerstown, Md.
大多数比赛结束后，耶舍勒都会打电话给他的父亲，他们可能会一起聊一个小时或更长时间，首先讨论迈克在堪萨斯城、波士顿或纽约的大联盟比赛，然后再讨论贾斯汀在北卡罗来纳州坎纳波利斯、希科里或马里兰州黑格斯敦的低 A 比赛。
The unspoken goal of the sessions is to slow the game down for both of them.
这些会议的不言而喻的目标是减慢他们两人的比赛速度。
Baseball might seem slow enough on its own, but it’s all too quick for the men charged with bending its complexities in their favor, and the Jirscheles work together to earn timeouts in a sport that never really stops demanding answers from them.
棒球本身可能看起来很慢，但对于那些负责将其复杂性向自己有利的人来说，它太快了，耶舍莱斯夫妇共同努力，在这项从未真正停止要求他们给出答案的运动中赢得暂停。
That requires building a kind of intellectual muscle memory, the ability to distill their previous experiences without conscious thought, combined with their shared knack for predicting what’s about to happen.
这需要建立一种智力肌肉记忆，即在没有有意识的思考的情况下提炼以前的经验的能力，并结合他们预测即将发生的事情的共同技巧。
Even at his young age, if Justin can instinctively apply the lessons of the past to a future that only he can see, then his present, no matter how chaotic, becomes manageable.
即使在他年轻的时候，如果贾斯汀能够本能地将过去的教训应用到只有他能看到的未来，那么他的现在，无论多么混乱，都会变得可控。
Along with his father’s baseball intelligence, Justin Jirschele has inherited the deep perfectionism that runs through his family.
贾斯汀·耶舍勒（Justin Jirschele）继承了父亲的棒球智慧，继承了家族中根深蒂固的完美主义。
They are particular people.
他们是特别的人。
In his winters, Mike Jirschele, World Series champion, still works in the basement of the Clintonville furniture store where he has worked for more than three decades, repairing broken night stands and touching up nicks in bed frames with wax and paint.
世界职业棒球大赛冠军迈克·耶舍勒 (Mike Jirschele) 冬天仍然在克林顿维尔家具店的地下室工作，他在那里工作了三十多年，修复破损的床头柜，并用蜡和油漆修补床架上的划痕。
He has become expert at using his tiny brushes to mimic the grain of wood.
他已经成为使用小刷子模仿木纹的专家。
Until Justin and Liz married and moved to Madison this winter, he delivered the furniture his father made perfect.
直到今年冬天贾斯汀和莉兹结婚并搬到麦迪逊，他才交付了父亲制作的完美家具。
The keen eye for detail was passed along with it.
对细节的敏锐洞察力也随之传承。
A darker genetic strain also courses through the Jirscheles.
耶舍莱斯族中也流淌着一种颜色较深的基因株。
Justin’s grandparents Don and Mary had eight children: four boys, including Mike, and four girls.
贾斯汀的祖父母唐和玛丽有八个孩子：包括迈克在内的四个男孩和四个女孩。
When their eldest son, Doug, was 11, they noticed that he had begun walking on the balls of his feet.
当他们的大儿子道格 11 岁时，他们注意到他开始用脚掌走路。
Tests revealed that muscular dystrophy had first surfaced in an attack on Doug’s Achilles’ tendon.
测试显示，肌肉萎缩症最初是在道格的跟腱受到攻击时出现的。
The Jirscheles were told that their daughters might be carriers of the disease but most likely free of symptoms.
耶舍勒夫妇被告知，他们的女儿可能是这种疾病的携带者，但很可能没有症状。
All the boys were destined for wheelchairs, and if any of them reached 40, they should consider themselves lucky.
所有的男孩都注定要坐轮椅，如果他们中的任何一个人活到了 40 岁，他们应该认为自己很幸运。
Mike somehow escaped the disease, mystifying the doctors, but his younger brother, Pete, did not.
迈克不知何故逃脱了疾病，这让医生感到困惑，但他的弟弟皮特却没有。
Mary was pregnant at the time with her eighth child.
玛丽当时正怀着第八个孩子。
She and Don hoped for a girl, but he was a boy, Jim, and he was also afflicted.
她和唐希望生一个女孩，但他是个男孩，吉姆，他也很痛苦。
Mike’s three brothers, Justin’s three uncles, each made it to 40, but not by much.
迈克的三个兄弟、贾斯汀的三个叔叔都活到了 40 岁，但差距不大。
There are still signs of them everywhere in Don’s home, in the wheelchair ramps and pulley systems and the small, framed reminder over the changing table in the bathroom: “Love never fails.”
在唐的家里，轮椅坡道和滑轮系统以及浴室换尿布台上方的小框提醒中，仍然到处可见它们的痕迹：“爱永远不会失败。”
Justin can remember the entire family — his grandparents, his uncles, his mother and his siblings — piling into vans in the summertime, wheelchairs folded into the back, driving across the country to see his father manage the game he loved.
贾斯汀还记得全家人——他的祖父母、叔叔、母亲和兄弟姐妹——在夏天挤进货车，把轮椅折叠到后座，开车穿越全国去看父亲管理他喜爱的比赛。
“I wouldn’t trade those trips for the world,” Justin said, and he could barely get out the words before his eyes filled with tears.
“我不会用这些旅行来换取全世界。”贾斯汀说道，他的眼里充满了泪水，几乎无法说出这句话。
Watching baseball with Justin, going over his games with him in the quiet of his office, is an ongoing lesson in mindfulness.
和贾斯汀一起观看棒球比赛，在安静的办公室里回顾他的比赛，是一堂持续的正念课程。
He talks about baseball with wonder.
他满怀惊奇地谈论棒球。
He’s captivated by its infinitude, at the range of possibility that exists in the space between its expected and actual outcomes.
他着迷于它的无限性，着迷于其预期结果和实际结果之间存在的可能性。
It’s a game of sometimes painfully fine lines.
这是一个有时令人痛苦的细线游戏。
“What-ifs,” he said one frustrating night, shaking his head.
“假设，”在一个令人沮丧的夜晚，他摇着头说道。
The way a pitching coach might break down a pitcher’s delivery into its beats, Jirschele pulls apart the entire game, first finding its movements and then examining each of its notes.
就像投手教练将投手的投球分解为节奏一样，耶舍勒将整个比赛分解，首先找到它的动作，然后检查它的每个音符。
The discordant ones stand out for him the most.
对他来说，不和谐的部分最为突出。
That’s partly because good ears are doomed to disappointment.
部分原因是，好的耳朵注定会令人失望。
It’s more because he believes that being careless with your blessings is a sin.
更重要的是，他认为对你的祝福不小心是一种罪过。
The Intimidators lost their first two games against the BlueClaws, and they lost mostly because they combined for six errors in the field.
威吓者队在对阵蓝爪队的前两场比赛中输掉了比赛，而他们输掉比赛的主要原因是他们总共在场上出现了六次失误。
On the afternoon before their third game, Jirschele held a little conference with his position players.
在第三场比赛之前的下午，耶舍勒与他的位置球员举行了一次小型会议。
He told them that he was proud of the way they had kept their heads in the game even after their mistakes.
他告诉他们，他为他们即使在犯错之后仍能保持头脑清醒的方式感到自豪。
(“They’re not dinking the dog,” was how he said it to me.) He reminded them that baseball isn’t a game that allows even the best to be perfect very often; it’s a game of try.
（他是这么对我说的，“他们不是在打狗。”）他提醒他们，棒球并不是一项即使是最优秀的运动也能经常表现得完美的运动；它是一种运动。这是一场尝试的游戏。
So long as he continued to see effort, so long as they kept working on their fundamentals, so long as they played baseball as if they were lucky to play it, they had nothing to worry about.
只要他继续努力，只要他们继续努力打好基础，只要他们打棒球就像幸运地打球一样，他们就没有什么可担心的。
Nobody had anything to worry about.
没有人有什么可担心的。
That night they lost again in excruciating fashion.
那天晚上，他们再次以令人难以忍受的方式输掉了比赛。
They had a 4-3 lead in the top of the ninth.
第九局上半，他们以4-3领先。
Lakewood was down to its final out, nobody on.
莱克伍德进入决赛，无人上场。
Two strikes.
两次罢工。
The Intimidators crowded the top step of their dugout, ready for their first celebration of the year.
恐吓者队挤满了休息室的最高台阶，准备迎接今年的第一次庆祝活动。
The batter took a check swing for what looked like Strike 3, but the umpire ruled that he hadn’t gone around.
击球手进行了看似三振的检查挥杆，但裁判裁定他没有走开。
He hit the next pitch deep to right for a home run to tie the game, and Kannapolis lost in extras.
他在下一个投球右侧打出全垒打，扳平比分，坎纳波利斯队在附加赛中输掉了比赛。
It was Fireworks Night, and the sky filled after with an almost mocking light.
那是烟花之夜，天空充满了近乎嘲讽的光芒。
They lost their next game, too.
他们也输掉了下一场比赛。
In Justin Jirschele’s first series as a manager, he had also endured his first sweep.
在贾斯汀·耶舍勒（Justin Jirschele）作为主教练的第一个系列赛中，他也经历了第一次横扫。
He called his father.
他打电话给他的父亲。
Experience proves most helpful when times are hard.
当困难时期，经验被证明是最有帮助的。
There isn’t much Mike hasn’t seen, which means there isn’t much he hasn’t suffered, which means there isn’t much he hasn’t survived.
迈克没有见过多少事情，这意味着他没有经历过多少痛苦，这意味着他没有经历过多少事情。
Nobody wants to be swept; everybody is swept.
没有人愿意被横扫；每个人都被席卷了。
He steadied Justin, telling him that baseball has a way of balancing its ledgers.
他稳住了贾斯汀，告诉他棒球有办法平衡账本。
In their first meeting with the Rome Braves, they played close to a perfect ballgame and carried a 5-1 lead into the ninth.
在与罗马勇士队的第一次交锋中，他们打出了近乎完美的比赛，并以 5-1 领先进入第九局。
Mike Morrison, a 23-year-old righty, came in to close out the game for Kannapolis.
23 岁的右撇子迈克·莫里森 (Mike Morrison) 上场为坎纳波利斯队终结了比赛。
Jirschele had his foot on the top dugout step.
耶舍勒的脚踩在防空洞最上面的台阶上。
Morrison dug in and stared down the first batter.
莫里森深入防守，盯着第一个击球手。
He struck him out.
他把他击倒了。
The next batter chopped one back to Morrison, who threw the ball to first — two away.
下一个击球手将一球回击给莫里森，莫里森将球扔给了第一名——距离两分。
For the first time, a victorious Jirschele met his team on the field for celebratory handshakes.
胜利的耶舍勒第一次在球场上与他的团队见面并握手庆祝。
Morrison had retrieved the ball from his catcher’s glove, and when he reached Jirschele, he led with it, and then followed it with a hug.
莫里森从接球手的手套中接回了球，当他到达耶舍勒身边时，他先带球，然后拥抱了球。
“I had some family issues,” Morrison said, “and he checks on me every single day.
“我有一些家庭问题，”莫里森说，“他每天都会来看我。
We love playing for him.
我们喜欢为他打球。
He works his butt off.
他拼命工作。
I told him it was the first of many.
我告诉他这是众多事件中的第一个。
He’ll probably have 3,000 of these one day.”
有一天他可能会拥有 3,000 个这样的东西。”
Jirschele didn’t really coach one team this season.
耶舍勒本赛季并没有真正执教过一支球队。
As the summer wore on, the Intimidators were constantly overhauled.
随着夏天的过去，恐吓者队不断进行检修。
His most consistent pitcher, a towering 22-year-old named Dane Dunning, was promoted after just four brilliant starts; Jirschele lost another seven players in a mass promotion after the All-Star break, when his team was in first place.
他最稳定的投手是一位身材高大的 22 岁投手戴恩·邓宁 (Dane Dunning)，他在仅仅四次出色的先发后就获得了晋升；耶舍勒在全明星赛结束后的一次大规模升级中又失去了七名球员，当时他的球队排名第一。
By August, only nine members of his original 25-man roster still played for him.
到了 8 月，他原来的 25 人名单中只剩下 9 名球员仍然为他效力。
Morrison was among the departed.
莫里森是去世者之一。
Jirschele changed as well, although in less obvious ways.
耶舍勒也发生了变化，尽管方式不太明显。
The placement of infielders has always been his favorite of the game’s many opportunities for subtle artistry.
内野手的位置一直是他在比赛中最喜欢的许多微妙艺术机会。
Last season, when he was still a hitting coach and perhaps prematurely given that task by his manager, Jirschele erred on the side of caution when positioning his infielders even late in close games.
上个赛季，当他还是一名击球教练时，也许他的教练过早地将这项任务交给了耶舍勒，即使在势均力敌的比赛后期，耶舍勒在安排内野手时也犯了谨慎的错误。
He dreaded the idea of seeing a lazy ball drop over their heads, scoring runners from second and third, so he played them out.
他害怕看到一个懒惰的球从他们头上掉下来，为第二和第三名的跑者得分，所以他把他们淘汰了。
In his first game this season, however, he drew his players in-between, and by the third game, he was bringing them all the way in.
然而，在本赛季的第一场比赛中，他将球员们拉到了中间，到了第三场比赛，他将他们全部带入了中间。
There are signs of his growing fearlessness on the basepaths too.
有迹象表明，他在基本道路上也越来越无所畏惧。
He’s trying to steal more bases and more often calling for the hit-and-run.
他试图抢更多的垒，并且更频繁地要求打了就跑。
He has also asked his players to bunt a little less and swing away more.
他还要求他的球员少一点短打，多一点挥杆。
It’s still too early to know, but Jirschele might prove that rare example of a man whom time makes more free.
现在下结论还为时过早，但耶舍勒可能会证明这是一个罕见的例子，时间使人变得更加自由。
The Intimidators eventually recovered from their slow start, going on a tear to earn their first postseason appearance since 2009.
威吓者队最终从缓慢的开局中恢复过来，自 2009 年以来首次进入季后赛。
“It’s gone so fast,” Justin said of his first season, sitting in his office in late August.
“一切都过得太快了，”八月底贾斯汀坐在办公室里谈到他的第一个赛季时说道。
He was in the heart of baseball’s hardest month, and he was still arriving at the ballpark a half-day early.
他正处于棒球最艰难的一个月，但他仍然提前半天到达棒球场。
“I still have the same feeling every day when I wake up,” he said.
“每天醒来时我仍然有同样的感觉，”他说。
“I absolutely love this.”
“我非常喜欢这个。”
There was a quiet moment after his first win back in April that he still thinks about.
四月份他第一次获胜后，有一段安静的时刻，他至今仍回想起。
While the players filled the clubhouse with the sound of celebration, their young manager stood alone in the hallway, leaning his head against the wall in relief.
当球员们在俱乐部会所里充满庆祝的声音时，他们年轻的主帅独自站在走廊里，头靠在墙上，如释重负。
He was going over the game, sequence by sequence, asking himself why everything had worked this time.
他正在逐个顺序地回顾游戏，问自己为什么这次一切都奏效了。
Could he make it work again tomorrow night?
明天晚上他能让它再次发挥作用吗？
Could he find a way to win more than he lost this summer, and next summer, and the next?
他能找到一种方法，让今年夏天、明年夏天、下一个夏天赢得的钱多于失去的钱吗？
During the game he asked himself: Who?
比赛中他问自己：谁？
When?
什么时候？
Now he wondered: Why?
现在他想知道：为什么？
How?
如何？
And then he flashed to Mike Morrison and marveled out loud about how with so much on his young mind, all those hitters to deal with, the burden of carrying his wobbling team to its first win of the year, and with maybe his own future somehow in the balance, he had still remembered his manager and waded through the chaos to deliver him that winning ball.
然后他向迈克·莫里森闪现，大声惊叹自己年轻的头脑里有那么多事情，要应付那么多击球手，带着摇摇欲坠的球队取得今年第一场胜利的重担，也许还有他自己的未来不知何故处于平衡之中，他仍然记得他的教练，并在混乱中艰难地为他送出那粒制胜球。
“That’s a special person,” Jirschele said, “to think about that right there.”
“这是一个特别的人，”耶舍勒说，“能够在那里思考这个问题。”