ANGELS FEAST ON HAPLESS ROYALS K.C. ROUTED, FANS GET CHICKEN ANGELS 14, K.C. 1.Byline: Joe Haakenson Staff Writer ANAHEIM - Granted, the Kansas City Royals The Kansas City Royals are a professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Royals have played in Kauffman Stadium. are the worst team this side of the Bad News Bears, but the Angels aren't about to give anything back. Not with an offense that hasn't been able to outscore Verb 1. outscore - score more points than one's opponents outpoint beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard a soccer team on most nights. The Angels had not scored as many as four runs in consecutive games in more than three weeks, but against the pitching-poor Royals, they followed Friday's nine-run outburst with a 14-1 victory before 43,929 at Angel Stadium. The 14 runs are a season-high, and also made sure the sellout crowd would not go home hungry. For the first time this season, the Angels scored at least 10 runs in a home game, allowing the fans to get free chicken wings Chicken Wings can refer to:
The Angels had a season-high with 16 hits; everyone in the starting lineup For the line of action figures, see . A starting lineup in sports refers to the set of players actively participating in the event when the game begins. The players in the starting lineup are commonly referred to as starters, whereas the others are substitutes had at least one. Chone Figgins Desmond DeChone "Chone" Figgins (born January 22, 1978 in Leary, Georgia) is a Major League Baseball utility player for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Despite the unusual spelling of his first name, "Chone" is pronounced as "Shawn. had three hits, scored three runs, stole two bases and drove in three. Orlando Cabrera Orlando Luis Cabrera (born November 2, 1974 in Cartagena, Colombia) is a Major League Baseball shortstop who plays for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He bats and throws right-handed. and Adam Kennedy each had two hits and Garret Anderson, in a 3 for 22 slide, homered (his first since May 10), doubled and drove in five. Dallas McPherson also had two hits, including a home run for the third game in a row. Vladimir Guerrero (April 17-19) is the only other Angel to homer in three consecutive games this season. Even Steve Finley, hitting .203 entering the game, drove in three runs with a double and sacrifice fly. A three-run third, six-run fourth and four-run fifth allowed Angels manager Mike Scioscia to take Anderson, Finley and Darin Erstad out of the game before the start of the sixth inning, Pitcher Kelvim Escobar, making his first start since a bone spur Bone spur Also called an osteophyte, it is an outgrowth or ridge that forms on a bone. Mentioned in: Cervical Disk Disease, Cervical Spondylosis bone spur was found in his elbow, made 84 pitches in five innings and got the victory. Escobar (2-2) gave up one run and four hits and struck out seven in what was only his fifth start of the season, and first since May 11. The Angels led, 3-1, going into the bottom of the fourth when they broke the game open against Royals starter Ryan Jensen (1-1). Curtis Pride, making his first start of the season since being called up from Triple-A Salt Lake May 21, doubled with one out to get the rally started. Pride's hit was the first of five consecutive hits, including 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 Kennedy and a two-run single by Figgins. After a sacrifice fly by Finley plated the fourth run of the inning, Anderson unloaded with a two-run homer, his fifth of the season, to give the Angels a 9-1 lead. That was more than enough for Escobar, who isn't used to such run support. Last season, the Angels scored only 3.9 runs per game in his starts, and this season it had been even worse - 2.5 runs per game in his four starts before Saturday. Escobar showed no signs of elbow trouble, hitting 94-mph on the radar gun. The only run the Royals scored against him came on a two-out, bloop bloop Baseball n. A blooper. tr.v. blooped, bloop·ing, bloops To hit (a ball) into the air just beyond the infield. adj. Hit just beyond the infield. RBI single by No. 9 hitter Ruben Gotay in the fourth inning. Chris Bootcheck relieved Escobar to start the sixth and threw four scoreless innings, allowing only two hits. Joe Haakenson, (626) 962-8811 joe.haakenson(at)sgvn.com CAPTION(S): photo, 4 boxes Photo: The Angels' Chone Figgins heads to first after hitting a two-run single in the fourth inning Saturday in a 14-1 rout of the Royals at Angel Stadium. Lisa Blumfield/Getty Images Box: (1) KANSAS CITY AT ANGELS - Joe Haakenson (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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