ANDERSON HOMER WINS ONE FOR ANGELS : ANGELS 2, BLUE JAYS 1.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. If only Garret Anderson Garret Joseph Anderson (born June 30, 1972 in Los Angeles, California) is a Major League Baseball left fielder who has played his entire career for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. could hit against Juan Guzman every night. Anderson homered in the ninth inning Wednesday night, making him 5 for 7 against Guzman and giving the Angels a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays "Blue Jays" redirects here. For other uses, see Blue Jay (disambiguation).. The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. . ``I can't get caught up in numbers in numbered parts; as, a book published in numbers. See also: Number ,'' Anderson said. ``If you start getting caught up in that you're going to be in for a slide.'' Guzman (1-1) got two quick outs in the ninth before Anderson hit a 1-0 pitch over the center-field fence for his first 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 this season. ``I hit it good,'' Anderson said. ``I didn't know for sure if it was going out. Sometimes balls in this place have a tendency to hang up. I was running hard around first.'' Guzman allowed two runs and six hits, struck out nine and walked two in his first complete game this season. ``He was 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 fastball,'' he said of Anderson. ``I knew he was looking for that and I said, `I'm going to throw it. If he hits it, fine.' I made a good pitch.'' Anderson's homer gave rookie Mark Holzemer Mark Harold Holzemer (born August 20, 1969, in Littleton, Colorado) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. Drafted by the California Angels in the 4th round of the 1987 MLB amateur draft, Holzemer would make his Major League Baseball debut with the California Angels on August his first major-league win. Holzemer faced just one batter, getting Shawn Green to ground out with the bases loaded in the eighth. Troy Percival pitched the ninth for his second save. The game was watched by just 25,446, the smallest crowd ever for baseball at SkyDome. The smallest previous crowd to attend a game at SkyDome, which opened in June 1989, was 31,070 for an April 7, 1995, game against Oakland. The Blue Jays drew 2.8 million fans last season. California starter Shawn Boskie, allowed one run and five hits in 7-2/3 innings. He struck out seven and walked three. Guzman led l-0 in the eighth when pinch-hitter Mike Aldrete tied it with his first homer. Domingo Cedeno, who had two of Toronto's five hits, had driven in Otis Nixon with a single in the first. ``It all happened so fast,'' Boskie said. ``I didn't want to hit the panic button. I have to give a lot of credit to (catcher Don Slaught). He knows how to work a game, how to watch hitters to see what kind of adjustments I have to make. But I really had to make better pitches.'' California threatened in the fourth on Chili Davis' one-out double and a walk to J.T. Snow. But after Anderson's groundout advanced the runners, Guzman struck out George Arias to end the inning. |
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