ANGELS FINISH IN RED NINTH-INNING RALLY NOT LONG ENOUGH THIS TIME CINCINNATI 4, ANGELS 3.Byline: Frank Welch
Frank Welch (1835 – 1878) was a Nebraska Republican politician. He was born at Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Massachusetts on February 10, 1835 and moved to Boston in with his parents. Staff Writer ANAHEIM - Angels manager Mike Scioscia The Angels had a chance to win Saturday afternoon's interleague game against the Cincinnati Reds with a base hit to the outfield - two outs, bottom of the ninth inning, runners on second and third base, down by one run. Scioscia picked veteran Jorge Fabregas to pinch hit for Jose Nieves. Benji Gil Romar Benjamin Gil Aguilar (born October 6, 1972, in Tijuana, Mexico) was a Major League Baseball utility player. Gil made his Major League Baseball debut with the Texas Rangers on April 5, 1993. remained on the bench. Fabregas grounded out to second base against Reds' closer Danny Graves Daniel Peter Graves (born August 7, 1973, in Saigon, South Vietnam) is a relief pitcher free agent. Born to an American serviceman father and a Vietnamese mother, he is the first and only Vietnam-born player in the history of the major leagues, and one of the few for the final out and an Edison Field crowd of 29,881 saw the Angels drop a 4-3 decision to Cincinnati. Anaheim (35-24), which entered the day with a chance to tie the Seattle Mariners The Seattle Mariners are a professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. The Mariners are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Mariners have played in Safeco Field. for first place 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. , fell two games back as the Mariners beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 in Seattle. The Angels entered the ninth inning trailing by two runs. Garret Anderson Garret Joseph Anderson (born June 30, 1972 in Los Angeles, California) is a Major League Baseball left fielder who has played his entire career for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. hit Graves' first pitch for a single to right field, and 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. Brad Fullmer smacked Graves' second pitch for a double to left, sending Anderson to third. Graves got a pitch inside to Orlando Palmeiro, who lined softly back to the mound for the first out. Scott Spiezio, who was intentionally walked to load the bases in the seventh inning, was walked unintentionally (Graves pitched around him) to load the bases again. Catcher Bengie Molina, whose flyout wasn't deep enough to bring home a run two innings earlier, hit a sharp ground ball toward first. Reds first baseman Sean Casey made a good play to get Molina at first base, and Anderson scored to make it 4-3. Having already used Tim Salmon in a pinch-hitting role (Salmon lined out with the bases loaded to end the seventh), Scioscia went with the left-handed-hitting Fabregas against Graves, a right-hander. ``Jorge has been hitting better in his last three or four starts,'' Scioscia said of Fabregas, who stepped up to the plate with three hits in his past seven at-bats but was hitting just .190 (8 for 42) on the season. Graves worked the count full before a running fastball got Fabregas to end the game. ``Pinch hitting's tough, guys,'' Fabregas said. ``I can do it, it's not an excuse. But it's tough out there when a guy is throwing 95 (mph) at your hands. If I was calling the game, I'd call it the same way, in on the hands.'' The Angels staked starter Ramon Ortiz to a 2-0 lead with Spiezio'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 double in the second inning and Darin Erstad's run-scoring single in the third. Ortiz went seven innings and gave up two runs (one coming home on a balk balk the action of a horse when it refuses to obey a command to which it usually responds. See also jibbing. ) and four hits but had a no-decision for the first time this season. Cincinnati took a 4-2 lead in the eighth inning against the Angels' bullpen. Losing pitcher Dennis Cook walked Casey and Ben Weber gave up successive singles to Austin Kearns and Aaron Boone. Boone's single scored Casey and put the Reds ahead. Russell Branyan, acquired Friday in a trade with Cleveland, picked up his second RBI of the day with a groundout that scored Kearns. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Bengie Molina of the Angels loses the grip on his bat during a fifth-inning at-bat Saturday at Edison Field. John Hayes/Associated Press |
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