ANGELS' WATSON ENJOYS COMPLETE COMFORT : ANGELS 10, TAMPA BAY 3.Byline: Fred Goodall Frederick Robert Goodall (born 1938) was an international cricket umpire from New Zealand who officiated in 24 Tests and 15 one-day internationals between 1965 and 1988. His debut as one-day international umpire was at Christchurch in February 1973, in the first one-day cricket 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. As the Angels lit up the scoreboard, Allen Watson Allen Kenneth Watson (born November 18, 1970 in Jamaica, New York) is a former left-handed starting pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, Anaheim Angels, New York Mets, Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees. get nice and comfortable on the mound. The left-hander pitched his first complete game in nearly two years Friday night, limiting the Tampa Bay Devil Rays The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are a professional baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida, Florida. The Devil Rays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Devil Rays have played in Tropicana Field. to eight hits in a 10-3 Angels victory. ``They got some runs for me and I got confidence,'' Watson said. ``I got ahead of hitters, I didn't walk anybody, I tried to keep the ball down, and it worked out.'' Damon Mashore drove in three runs and Jim Edmonds James Patrick "Jim" Edmonds (born June 27, 1970 in Fullerton, California) is a left-handed batter who plays for the St. Louis Cardinals. Edmonds is affectionately known as Jimmy Baseball [1], "Lassie" and as "Hollywood"[2] among Cardinals fans. and Darin Erstad Darin Charles Erstad (born June 4, 1974 in Jamestown, North Dakota) is a first baseman/center fielder in Major League Baseball currently with the Chicago White Sox. Prior to 2007, he had played his entire career with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim franchise (1996-2006). each had two 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 for the Angels, who lost three of four games to the expansion team at home last weekend. Edmonds had an RBI double off Wilson Alvarez Erstad, who has hit safely in 18 of 20 games, had a two-run double off Carlson in the fifth. Paco Martin and Gary DiSarcina also drove in runs for the Angels with singles. Watson (1-2) gave up a two-run homer to Fred McGriff in the first, then limited Tampa Bay to six hits the rest of the way. The left-hander walked one and struck out five in his first complete game since May 30, 1996, for San Francisco. ``The best thing about tonight is that he went out and he wanted to finish the game. I thought that was important for him,'' Angels manager Terry Collins said. ``Last year, he got us in the seventh inning a lot of nights, but some of the games he couldn't put them away. Tonight, I thought it was important for him to finish.'' Alvarez's bid to tie the record for most April wins by a pitcher on a first-year expansion team lasted one inning. In three victories since an opening-day loss to Detroit, the Tampa Bay left-hander had given up just two earned runs in 21 2-3 innings. The Angels, however, pounced on him with three runs in the first inning. Dan Carlson replaced Alvarez after the Devil Rays' starter hit two batters and walked a third to load the bases with no outs in the second. Carlson got out of the jam by striking out Dave Hollins and getting Cecil Fielder to ground into a double play, then gave up three runs in the third and two in the fifth as the Devil Rays fell behind 8-2. Mashore hit his first homer of the season in the ninth to cap the scoring. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Tampa Bay reliever Dan Carlson is stared down by Angels' Dave Hollins after Carlson hit him with a pitch in the third inning. Chris O'Meara/Associated Press |
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