ANGELS BATS AWAKEN; HILL HURT : ANGELS 10, MINNESOTA 8.Byline: Frank C. Girardot Frank C. Girardot (1961 in Detroit, Michigan) worked during the 1980s and 1990s as a copyboy, reporter and sportswriter for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, The Pasadena Star-News and The Los Angeles Daily News. A troubling drought that saw the Angels go scoreless for 18 innings ended Wednesday with a bang. The Angels scored nine runs in the third inning against the Minnesota Twins The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Twins are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Twins have played in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Wednesday night at Edison Field, and won 10-8 after the Twins made some offensive noise of their own. The Twins scored runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings. The victory allowed the Angels to stay two games ahead of 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. in the 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. . The Rangers shut out Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). 8-0 Wednesday night. For the Angels, the victory was tainted by yet another injury to yet another pitcher. Starter Ken Hill had to be pulled in the second inning after he was hit in the right hand by a batted ball "Fly ball" and "line drive" redirect here. For the dog sport, see flyball. In baseball, a batted ball is any ball that, after a pitch, is contacted by the batter's bat. . Hill bruised the thumb, index and middle fingers of his right hand. He was taken to Chapman General Hospital for precautionary X-rays, team officials said. With the win, the Angels ended a five-game homestand in which they went 3-2. The team leaves town today for a seven-game road trip with stops at Baltimore, Tampa Bay Tampa Bay, inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, 25 mi (40 km) long and 7 to 12 mi (11.3–19 km) wide, W Fla., separated from the Gulf by numerous small islands; it receives the Hillsborough River. St. and Texas. The Angels' nine-run third inning began with singles by Randy Velarde and Jim Edmonds. Then Tim Salmon did something that no Angel had done in 41 previous innings. He homered. Garret Anderson, Chris Pritchett, Charlie O'Brien, Gary DiSarcina and Orlando Palmeiro also had hits in the inning. Edmonds hit twice and scored twice. Anderson hit twice and scored once in the inning. The outburst marked the second time this season the Angels produced a nine-run inning. The Twins scored their first run in the first inning when Matt Lawton drove a Hill fastball 395 feet to right-center. The solo home run was Lawton's 18th of the season. Things looked perilous for the Angels in the top of the second. Todd Walker smashed a shot at Hill that caught the pitcher in the right hand. A sacrifice fly by David Ortiz then scored Walker to give Minnesota a 2-0 lead. After catcher Terry Steinbach singled with one out, Angels manager Terry Collins pulled Hill in favor of Omar Olivares. For the Angels, Anderson led off the second with a chopper that was too hot for pitcher Frank Rodriguez to handle, and soon after Craig Shipley and Charlie O'Brien singled to load the bases. Gary DiSarcina drove in one run with a grounder to short, ending the team's scoring drought. The Twins picked up their third run of the night in the sixth inning when David Ortiz hit a solo home run to right. In the seventh, the Twins scored their fourth run when Angels reliever Shigetoshi Hasegawa gave up doubles to the first two batters he faced, Alex Ochoa and Denny Hocking. Walker drove in Hocking Hocking may refer to:
The Twins scored three runs in the eighth when Ochoa hit a bases loaded triple. |
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