コーリー・クルーバー(Cleveland Indians)

2014年、2017年サイヤング投手。シンカーボーラー。

【目次】

①クルーバー　特徴と通算成績

②インタビュー中にひまわりの種を投げまくられる！

<①クルーバー　特徴と通算成績>

クルーバーは通算7年(2017年現在)で、2回サイヤング賞を受賞している現役屈指の

ピッチャーです。(2014年、2017年)

2017年の成績は圧巻で、5月に腰の違和感で約1ヶ月の離脱にも関わらず、

18勝、奪三振265を記録しました。怪我がなければシーズン300奪三振を達成していたかも

しれません。

下記の動画がクルーバーの球種のレポート動画です。

全ての球種がウイニングショットで、シンカー、スライダー、カーブとコーナーへの精度も

抜群です。特にシンカーボーラーと呼ばれるほど、シンカーはスペシャル級です。

まだ30歳を過ぎたところで、今後も熟練度が上がっていくと思うので、注目しましょう。

<②インタビュー中にひまわりの種を投げまくられる！>

クーパーの面白動画を紹介します。

精密なピッチングを生み出す要因は、彼の何にも動じないメンタルのようです。

(動画 0:00～)

実況：「(試合中)それではダグアウトのクルーバーにインタビューしましょう。

　　　　クルーバーは昨日素晴らしいピッチングをしました。

　　　　チームは苦しい中耐えていますが、多くのプレッシャーが掛かる中

　　　　どんなことが大事でしょうか。」

クルーバー：「もちろん追いていかれたくない、落とせない大事な試合はある。

                       (ここでチームメートからひまわりの種を投げられる。)　※動画 0:25～

　　　　　　　でもプレッシャーを自分たちに与えすぎたり、単に1試合以上の重みを

　　　　　　　つけてはダメだ。(クルーバーは努めて冷静。)」

実況：「何かそこにものが落ちたように聞こえましたが笑」

その後もクルーバーへのインタビューが続く中、次々に種がクルーバーにぶつけられます笑

(動画　0:45～、0:55～、1:30～)

しかしクルーバーは、「ストライク先行が大事。」「常に攻める気持ちを」と冷静に、

答えています。笑

ただ動画2:50あたりから、クルーバーはジャケットを隠れ蓑にし始めます。

これには実況、解説とも爆笑。

そして動画の最後にチームメートから投げられるものが衝撃でした！！(笑)

(動画 4:55～)

実況：「君はシュガードーナツのようだね。」

クルーバー：「ああ、そうさ。」

「ああ、そうさ」とだけ言うクルーバーが面白いですね。

では英語スクリプトを載せて終わりにします。

【英語スクリプト】

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due up we're going to go down to the

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tribe dugout right now where we're

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joined by Indians pitcher Corey Kluber

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tune in another terrific performance

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last night what's it like pitching in a

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game like last night I mean obviously

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you guys went through a lot of

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high-pressure situations last year but

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you get the first-place team into town

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the way you guys have been struggling

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here lately what was that game like

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seemed like a lot of emotion involved

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yeah I mean I think there was obviously

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an important game for us um you know

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playing them we didn't want to fall any

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further behind we already are but at the

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same time you know trying not to try not

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to put too much pressure on ourselves

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and make it more than it is just one

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game oh boy I could hear it rain it

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already down there yep it started okay

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hey when you put a game plan together I

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guess a team like the Tigers and you're

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you're a lot of fast first pitch

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fastball for strikes uh-huh I mean

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that's what you have to do when you hit

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pitch against an offensive Club like the

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Tigers is it just get ahead yeah I mean

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they're they're very aggressive team but

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you know I think they're even better

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when they're ahead and accountant

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they're able to kind of hone in on the

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pitch they want uh-huh so almost use

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that aggressiveness to your advantage

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Carlos Santana swings and fouls one back

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off Justin Verlander here in the second

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inning were visiting with Indians

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pitcher Corey Kluber who was locked in a

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pretty good duel against his Tigers

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lineup last night it was a good matchup

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with Miguel Cabrera you got in there got

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in his kitchen early in the ballgame

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but he's a tough guy to face isn't he

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yeah I mean the middle of their lineup

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with him and Victor is really probably

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not a better you know back-to-back

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hitters especially with how hot they are

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right now

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you know there's gonna be times where

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you make your pitches to them and they

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still get their hits but you just kind

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of have to try your best not to let that

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affect you look at the composure of this

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guy folks I learned from master last

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year Santana

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he's got to face it and he's going to

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turn and go to second Cabrera

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is in time

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well it's easy to say after the fact

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that he was overly aggressive but I like

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it because Cabrera was nonchalantly

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going after the ball right there well

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that's exactly what Santana fell he was

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going after it a little too slow get

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after it pick it up and didn't go that

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far away from so Santana erased trying

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to advance after the base hit one down

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here in the second dent going to bring

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up Nick Swisher

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we're visiting with Indians pitcher

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Corey Kluber down on the tribe dugout is

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Swisher digs in and fouls it out of play

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core whatsa you know what do you think a

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win like that last night does for the

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ball cutter right um I mean hopefully it

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hopefully it gets us a little bit of

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momentum and something to build off of

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you know I don't think that in the long

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run is more important than one game but

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you know I think we played it we played

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a good game as a team so hopefully that

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kind of you know maybe a wake up call is

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that's the way we need to play Corey

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this year you've been really consistent

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out there you go out and it seems like

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you're a solid six innings every time

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out if not seven and can go more than

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that is there anything that you've

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learned this year from last year that

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you've been able to take into this year

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um I mean I think the biggest thing for

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me is always just being aggressive and

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trying to attack the strike zone um

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trying to avoid falling behind hitters

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is the biggest key for me and probably

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most pitchers um you know I was a lot

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easier to hit when you're ahead in the

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count you can kind of try to Zone in on

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the one pitcher looking for you know

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you're normally 70% strike guy anyway is

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that why the strikeouts come because a

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lot of times your o to 1 to 2 most

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hitters yeah I probably have something

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to do with it um I mean I think that for

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me that I'm not trying to strike people

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out I think it's just a product of kind

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of executing pitches and you know

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obviously after you're way ahead in

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account then they're kind of they're in

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more of a defensive mode right I

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understand yeah but I mean you can throw

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out for your pitches for strikes at any

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one time - that certainly helps it does

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yeah I mean that's just that much more

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for the hitter to think about well I

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know one thing our statistician up here

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Tommy Poe he says that when guys put the

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ball in play

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525 on the very first pitch but you go

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at it with a fastball so you don't mind

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that day as long as you don't walk them

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yeah I mean I would if a guy's going to

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swing at the first pitch um you know you

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kind of take your chances with you don't

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want to change your game plan just

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according to the way that you know

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certain hitters attacking you or

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something like that I mean I think I

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think it's the big thing is to kind of

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stick with your strengths and you know

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not let them kind of take you out of

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your game plan well core this is a first

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you look like a powdered sugar doughnut

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no yes awesome some baby powder flying

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across there well you're a trooper

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thanks for hanging in there with us we

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appreciate your time thank you that

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select the rest of the way Thanks down

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the line