ANGELS' SANTANA EARNS A'S FOR EFFORT FIGGINS' BASE-RUNNING SKILLS ARE ALSO KEY ANGELS 5, OAKLAND 2.Byline: Keven Chavez Staff Writer ANAHEIM - The Angels have yet to discover consistency from rookie starting pitcher Noun 1. starting pitcher - (baseball) a pitcher who starts in a baseball game baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; Ervin Santana Ervin Ramon Santana (born December 12, 1982 in La Romana, Dominican Republic) is a right-handed starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Career Santana was a starting pitcher for the Angels' double-A affiliate, the Arkansas Travelers early in 2005, where he . But when he's been on, he's been right on the money. On Monday night at Angel Stadium, the Angels cashed in another sparkling performance from Santana. This time the 22-year-old right-hander cooled off the visiting Oakland Athletics “Philadelphia Athletics” redirects here. For other uses, see Philadelphia Athletics (disambiguation). The Oakland Athletics are a professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. , the hottest team in baseball, with seven strong innings as the Angels opened a three-game series against their AL West rivals with a 5-2 victory in front of 40,546. In four of Santana's eight career starts entering Monday's game, he'd surrendered at least five earned runs and failed to get out of the fifth inning. In the four others, he'd allowed no more than one earned run. Start No. 9 was of the excellent variety as Santana surrendered just four hits and two runs with six strikeouts through seven innings to earn his fourth win and help the Angels increase their lead in the West to eight games over the Texas Rangers Texas Rangers, mounted fighting force organized (1835) during the Texas Revolution. During the republic they became established as the guardians of the Texas frontier, particularly against Native Americans. and 8 1/2 games over the third-place A's. ``I try to do good things every day,'' Santana said. ``Sometimes it's good, sometimes not ... today all my pitches were good.'' Said Angels manager Mike Scioscia pl.n. Pains in the limbs and joints of children or adolescents, frequently occurring at night and often attributed to rapid growth but arising from various unrelated causes. . But there's an opportunity to see Ervin pitch terrific games and he did tonight.'' Santana (4-4) pitched himself into trouble in the top of the sixth inning. He issued a leadoff walk to Mark Kotsay Mark Steven Kotsay (born December 2, 1975) is an outfielder for the Oakland Athletics. A native of Whittier, California[1], Kotsay was selected by the Florida Marlins the 9th pick of the Amateur Draft in 1996 out of Cal State Fullerton. , then a one-out walk to Eric Chavez Eric Cesar Chavez (pronounced CHA-vez) (born December 7, 1977 in Los Angeles, California) is a Mexican-American third baseman in Major League Baseball who has played for the Oakland Athletics since 1998. . Oakland DH Scott Hatteberg took advantage of the opportunity by lacing a double to the right-field wall, allowing Kotsay and Chavez to score for a 2-1 lead. The Angels came right back in the bottom of the sixth, batting around to turn a one-run deficit into a three-run lead. Chone Figgins led off with a walk against Oakland starter Kirk Saarloos (5-6). Figgins stole second for the second time in the game, then advanced to third when Darin Erstad blistered a hard grounder off the glove of first baseman Dan Johnson for a single. Vladimir Guerrero's 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 fielder's choice scored Figgins for the tying run. The Angels loaded the bases with one out on a single by Garret Anderson and an intentional walk to Steve Finley. After a pop-up to short by Bengie Molina, Jeff DaVanon and Orlando Cabrera delivered RBI singles to chase Saarloos. DaVanon hit a high bouncer off home plate which Saarloos could not barehand, resulting in a single and a 3-2 Angels lead. Then Cabrera then roped a fastball into center field, plating two runs for a 5-2 advantage. ``Figgy's baserunning set the tone,'' said Scioscia. ``Ersty's situational hitting. Orlando's big hit. Those are the things you need from the whole lineup and we got it.'' Scot Shields and Francisco Rodriguez, who earned his 21st save in 23 save opportunities, each pitched a scoreless inning of relief. Keven Chavez, (626) 962-8811 keven.chavez(at)sgvn.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos, 4 boxes Photo: (1 -- color) Angels shortstop Orlando Cabrera hits a two-run single in the sixth inning Monday against Oakland. Jeff Cross/Getty Images (2) The Angels' Chone Figgins, right, steals second base in the first inning. Chris Pizzello/Associated Press Box: (1) ANGELS vs. OAKLAND - Keven Chavez (2) GAME RECAP (3) HOW THE RUNS SCORED (4) ALMANAC almanac, originally, a calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. |
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