【選手コメント】ミゲル・ロハス、代打で勝利貢献「元々いい代打じゃなかった」

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• Miguel Rojas

  ――代打で出てきてきっちり仕事をするのは見事だ。最近この役割で結果を出せるようになった理由は？誰かに相談したりも？ 「すごく一生懸命取り組んできたんだ。だって俺はこれまで決していい代打じゃなかったからね。経験のある人たちにたくさん話を聞いて、助けてもらってるんだ。…こんなにたくさんの代打のチャンスをもらうのは、今まで経験したことがなかったからね」

  Q: It's pretty cool that you're coming off the bench and doing your job. What changed to make you more successful in that role lately, and who have you talked to about it? And I've been working really hard on trying to get better at that, because I have never been a really good pinch hitter. But I've been talking to a lot of people that helped me with experience. ... I have never done this in this amount of opportunities.

• Miguel Rojas

  ――年齢を重ねて、長打がより武器になってきた。どうやって？鍵は？ 「自分がどこで仕留めるか、を理解することだと思う。狙うコースを絞って、打てる球とチャンスを探して、思い切っていく――それだけさ」

  Q: Power has been a bit more of a weapon for you as you've gotten older here. How have you been able to do that — what's the key? I just think it's understanding where am I going to do my damage, you know, and the lanes that I'm attacking and looking for pitches and looking for opportunities, you know, to be aggressive.

• Miguel Rojas

  ――スネの具合はまだ気になる？ 「良くなってきたよ。テーピングしてる。どこからともなく急に来た感じでね。あそこに骨挫傷みたいなものができたんだ。シカゴにいたここ数日はあまり体重をかけられなかった。だから今は良くなって本当に助かってるよ」

  Q: Is your shin still bothering you? It's better. I'm taping it and kind of like it's something that it came out of nowhere. Kind of a bone bruise right there. I couldn't really put that much weight on it the last couple days over there in Chicago. So I'm glad that I'm better now.

• Miguel Rojas

  ――どんな役割でもこなすと言うけど、ルーティンを合わせて、ああいう場面に心の準備をしておくのは難しくない？ 「自分の役割と、出場する状況を理解することが大事なんだ。うちの球団は、選手に何を期待しているかをちゃんと伝えてくれる。何を求められているか分かっていて、その場面に備えられれば、気持ちはずっと楽になる。あとは球場に来るだけさ――左投手のときに出る、相手が左を投入してきたら代打で出る、大量リードのときは仲間を休ませる、そして必要ならマウンドにも上がる。それだけだよ」

  Q: You talk about playing any role here, but is it difficult to embrace that when you're trying to adapt your routine and find a comfort level for spots like that? I like understand your role and the situation that you're going to be playing at. The organization is really cool on telling players what their expectations are. And if you know what they're expecting from you, if you can be prepared for that situation, it's a little bit easier to kind of like rest on that and just continue to come to the ballpark knowing that you're playing against the lefties, you're coming off the bench when they put a lefty in the game, you're giving these guys off the field sometimes when we're winning by a lot, if I have to pitch, I pitch.

• Miguel Rojas

  ――このチームのベンチ陣に共通するマインドは？ 「俺たちベンチ組の心構えは、自分たちにできる最高を出すこと――そしてリーグで一番のベンチ陣になることだと思う。俺たちが目指すようなチームには、それがふさわしいんだ」

  Q: What's the mentality for the bench guys on a team like this? I think it's the mentality for us bench players to be the best that we can be — and be the best players off the bench in the league, for the kind of team that we're going to have.