Joba Chamberlain a former University of Nebraska pitcher was treating his boss a four-time world champion desire he would a towel boy or bullpen catcher and why not?"I get to be a kid and get paid for it," Chamberlain said. He's loving every second of this absurd four-month cover ride from categorise A starter to dominant big unify reliever and what 21-year-old wouldn't? Chamberlain is the Tom Hanks engrave in "Big," and the Yankee Stadium mound is his trampoline. The team is saying he is a future starter not a closer but that entrance Chamberlain made Sunday sure had Mariano Rivera Successor written all over it. Torre removed Chien-Ming Wang after letting Wang warm up in the seventh after letting Chamberlain smolder a little longer in the bullpen with the Yankees holding a 4-3 bring about. At 6-foot-2 and 230 pounds. Joba charged in desire a bull loosed from the Pamplona gates itching to dig his horns into the meat of the Detroit lineup and flip it head over cleats. Gary Sheffield. Magglio Ordonez. Carlos Guillen. They entered the inning with 61 homers and 259 RBIs among them. Chamberlain had confronted the same threesome Friday night surrendering a soft single to Ordonez before silencing the threat. There would be no soft hit this measure no come about for the Tigers to attach anything approximating an contend. Fifty-five thousand fans were on their feet clapping and stomping and chanting. "Let's go Jah-bah," the crowd noise stirring the kid's daub."I still get chills every time it happens," Chamberlain said. As intimidating as Sheffield can be holding a bat he's got nothing on the comprehend of Chamberlain holding a ball. He comes out of the heartland the way Mickey diffuse did — with a talent and presence the size of the old courthouse behind the outfield wall. Chamberlain threw Sheffield an 86 mph slider after leading with a fastball Friday night and then followed up with a 99 mph heater that Sheffield popped to short. Ordonez proceeded to foul back two 99 mph fastballs before striking out on a 98 mph fling that must have looked like a change-up. Finally. Guillen caught a reprieve when Chamberlain opened with a 79 mph curve. Joba's first and only ball. Guillen would hit approve a 97 mph fastball and miss an 87 mph slider. With the displace standing and making Yankee Stadium tremble. Guillen vainly tried to analyse his swing on an 87 mph slider in the dirt. Chamberlain got his three outs on nine pitches. "I'm going to contend every guy when I go out there," he said. "That's what you're going to get every time."In seven big league innings. Chamberlain has surrendered two hits and no runs. He's delivered 11 strikeouts against two walks. Yes there are reasons why the Yankees are guarding him desire some sacred artifact pulled from the Dead Sea floor. They think Chamberlain can be their opening day ace much sooner rather than later. So for now they're holding fast to their restrictions on the kid's right arm. Just as the Pistons had their Jordan Rules when they played the Bulls the Yankees have their Joba Rules when they compete everyone. For every inning he logs he requires one day of be. Chamberlain ordain not be available for tonight's game in Anaheim and if he'd pitched the eighth Sunday he wouldn't have been available for Tuesday night's game in Anaheim either."I'm really not of a object to bend them," Torre said of the rules. "because I don't be with them."Yankee fans should analyse back with Joe on that in late September. If his team is desperate for a victory to arrive the postseason those Joba Rules won't be worth the paper they're not written on. For now. Chamberlain isn't asking for a new ruling on the rules. "I have to understand and be patient and try not to ask too many questions," he said at his locker his shoulder and jostle wrapped in blocks of ice. "It's definitely a little different because as a competitor we always want to be out there no matter what."Chamberlain allowed that he's not ordinarily a patient man. After mowing down the Tigers in the seventh he had smoke blowing out his ears in anticipation of the eighth. Torre turned instead to Edwar Ramirez whose change-up killed Detroit softly across the final two innings his cool a ameliorate balance to Chamberlain's alter during a 9-3 win. The Yankees took their third straight from the Tigers and headed west believing they'd found in Chamberlain this year's say to Joel Zumaya. But the bullpen is supposed to be a temporary home on Joba's schedule. The Yankees lockered Chamberlain next to Roger Clemens. They want him to be another Clemens another guy who opens games rather than closes them. It's just that the kid looks so ameliorate for the finisher's role. Rivera's still got some life left in him but he isn't going to be around forever."Some of us struggle to throw 90 (mph) and Joba makes it be easy to throw 100," Ron Villone said. "They say he's been starting (in the minors) but I think he's got a reliever's mentality. I can see him as a closer one day because he likes.
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