[0] SIX-RUN EIGHTH LIFTS ANGELS; FYHRIE PITCHES WELL IN HIS FIRST START FOR ANAHEIM : ANGELS 8, SEATTLE 2.Byline: Frank Welch
Frank Welch (1835 – 1878) was a Nebraska Republican politician. He was born at Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Massachusetts on February 10, 1835 and moved to Boston in with his parents. Staff Writer When the Angels clinched their second American League West The American League West is one of three divisions in Major League Baseball's American League. The division currently has four teams, but it has had as many as seven teams before the 1994 realignment. title in 1982, a giddy 12-year-old boy from Huntington Beach Huntington Beach, city (1990 pop. 181,519), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast, across from Santa Catalina Island, in an oil-producing area; inc. 1909. It manufactures aerospace vehicles, aircraft parts, optical instruments, and heat transfer equipment. savored the moment by running around the infield collecting fistfuls of dirt. Seventeen years later, Mike Fyhrie, who was born in Long Beach, got another chance to step onto Angels' home turf. But this time he was the home team's starting pitcher. And the 29-year-old Fyhrie pitched well in his first big league start, giving up two runs and six hits in seven innings as the Angels defeated the Seattle Mariners, 8-2, Tuesday night at Edison Field. Troy Glaus' RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in single off Mariners' reliever Frankie Rodriguez with one out in the eighth inning snapped a 2-2 tie. Glaus' liner to right field scored Randy Velarde and gave reliever Mark Petkovsek (8-2) his club-leading eighth win. Petkovsek pitched the final two innings in relief of Fyhrie. Jeff Huson followed Glaus with an RBI single one out later to score Garret Anderson. Gary DiSarcina and Darin Erstad each added back-to-back, two-run singles to cap the Angels' six-run inning. The win also meant the Angels (38-44) cut the Texas Rangers lead in the A.L. West to 7-1/2 games. Fyhrie, the right-hander who was called up from Triple-A Edmonton Monday, gave the Angels what they were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. -- a solid outing and a good number of innings. Pitching in front of 22,444 that included about 25 family members and friends, Fyhrie drew raves by striking out Ken Griffey Jr. with the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the fifth. He struck out six and walked one while throwing 121 pitches. The Angels tied the game at 2-2 in the sixth inning when Seattle starter Gil Meche, making his major league debut, walked Orlando Palmeiro with the bases loaded. Fyhrie, who attended UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , was making his third big-league appearance and first as an Angel. He pitched two games for the New York Mets
n. Baseball Abbr. ERA A measure of a pitcher's performance obtained by dividing the total of earned runs allowed by the total of innings pitched and multiplying by nine. Noun 1. at Edmonton. Fyhrie shut down Griffey Jr. (0-3), but had trouble with hot-hitting shortstop Alex Rodriguez. Rodriguez had an RBI double and hit his third solo homer of the series off Fyhrie. The Angels, who had limited success against Meche, the pride of the Mariners' farm system, got a run in the bottom of the third when Erstad's sacrifice fly scored Matt Walbeck. Walbeck doubled down the left field line to open the third. The Angel offense, which was limited to three hits by Jeff Fassero and Paul Abbott (one inning) on Monday, was again punchless until breaking through in the eighth inning off Rodriguez (2-3). CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Seattle's Dan Wilson talks with Gil Meche after a bases-loaded walk. Michael Caulfield/Associated Press |
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