ANGELS ALL WET IN LOSS; MARTINEZ SUPERB IN SOGGY FENWAY : BOSTON 6, ANGELS 1.Byline: Joe Haakenson San Gabriel Valley The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. TribuneNo task has been too tough for the Angels on their current East Coast road swing. Not David Wells This article is about David Wells, American baseball player. For other uses, see David Wells (disambiguation). David Lee "Boomer" Wells (born May 20, 1963 in Torrance, California) is a Major League Baseball player who is currently a starting pitcher for the Los , not David Cone Though the Angels scored five runs and four runs in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of off Cy Young Award candidates Wells and Cone, respectively, facing Boston's Pedro Martinez was a different story. The Angels got six hits off Martinez in the first three innings Saturday, but Martinez regrouped after a 43-minute rain delay and beat the Angels 6-1 before a sellout crowd of 32,519 at Fenway Park • • [ . The loss, coupled with Texas' win, reduced the Angels' AL West lead to two games. There were two rain delays in the game, the first one coming in the middle of the fourth inning and the second - which lasted only six minutes - came in the middle of the fifth. When the umpiring crew, led by crew chief Dave Phillips, called the second one, the Angels were upset. They felt it had been raining even harder during their at-bat in the top of the fifth, but the umps let the game go on to guarantee it would become official. Reserve infielder Craig Shipley Craig Barry Shipley (born January 7, 1963 in Parramatta, Australia) was an Infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1986-87), New York Mets (1989), San Diego Padres (1991-94 and 1996-97), Houston Astros (1995) and Anaheim Angels (1998). , on the bench but on the disabled list, was ejected by umpire Durwood Merrill when the grounds crew was ordered to put the tarp on the field even though the rain had let up a little. When play resumed after the second delay, the game zipped by. ``Pedro pitched a great game, he's a good pitcher,'' Angels designated hitter designated hitter n. Baseball Abbr. DH A player designated at the start of a game to bat instead of the pitcher in the lineup. Noun 1. Tim Salmon ``He was throwing strikes and getting ahead, forcing you to swing.'' Martinez (18-4) went eight innings, allowing only an 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 by Troy Glaus in the second inning and a total of seven hits. The Angels had only one hit after the third inning. ``You never know how somebody might come out of a rain delay,'' Angels manager Terry Collins said. ``Pedro came out even better. Angels starter Jack McDowell (3-3) not only didn't come out better after the delay, he didn't come out at all. He gave up five runs and six hits in three innings before the first delay, and was replaced by Omar Olivares when the game resumed in the bottom of the fourth. The Red Sox scored two in the second and three more in the third - getting home runs from John Valentin and Troy O'Leary - to take a 5-1 lead. ``I didn't get ahead (in the count),'' McDowell said after his first loss in three starts since returning from the disabled list. ``When I threw first-pitch strikes, I hung a couple. I didn't have good command within the zone today.'' McDowell added that it was probably a good idea he didn't pitch after the delay but did say he could do it. ``I've always been better after rain delays,'' he said. ``You get loose, then you get a breather. It's a fallacy when guys talk about it in the (TV) booth - `He's going to stiffen stiff·en tr. & intr.v. stiff·ened, stiff·en·ing, stiff·ens To make or become stiff or stiffer. stiff up' - you only stiffen up if you're hurt.'' Either way, nothing really seemed to matter with Martinez pitching. ``I've never seen Pedro throw more off-speed pitches than he did today,'' said left fielder Gregg Jefferies, who went 1 for 4 in his Angels debut. ``Obviously, it's working for him. But he's a different pitcher than when he was in the National League.'' |
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