ANGELS GLAD TO SEE BLUE JAYS LEAVE OFFENSIVE STRUGGLES CONTINUE AS WASHBURN RETURNS FROM DL TORONTO 4, ANGELS 1.Byline: Joe Haakenson Staff Writer ANAHEIM - The Angels bid au revoir to the Toronto Blue Jays "Blue Jays" redirects here. For other uses, see Blue Jay (disambiguation).. The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. for the 2005 season Wednesday night, and while they're at it, they might want to add an adios and a good riddance for good measure. Some teams seem to have a knack for beating certain teams no matter where each sits in the standings. For the Blue Jays, beating the Angels has become a habit, with Wednesday night's 4-1 win in front of 43,026 at Angel Stadium the latest installment. Blue Jays starter Josh Towers Joshua Eric "Josh" Towers (b. February 26, 1977 in Oxnard, California) is an American right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Toronto Blue Jays. Towers stands at 6'1" tall, and weighs 180 lbs. gave up one run in 6 2/3 innings, got remarkable defense behind him and 11 hits from the Toronto offense in the season series finale
A series finale is the very last installment of a television series, usually a sitcom or drama. between the teams. Final tally: Blue Jays five wins, Angels one. The Blue Jays are 17-7 against the Angels the past three seasons. ``They're a team in the hunt,'' Angels manager Mike Scioscia ``They have power arms, and they have a nice rotation, even without (Roy) Halladay (who is injured). Those guys get after it. They play good defense, and they have (Shea) Hillenbrand and (Vernon) Wells, two big right-handed bats in the middle of the lineup. They play well.'' Especially against the Angels. A slew of defensive gems in the early innings by the Blue Jays kept the Angels from mounting a big scoring rally. The Angels' best opportunity for a big inning came in the sixth when they loaded the bases with nobody out. 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. , 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). and Vladimir Guerrero Vladimir Alvino Guerrero (born February 9, 1976 in Don Gregorio, Nizao, Dominican Republic), and known in his native Dominican Republic as Miquéas (Spanish for Micah), is a Major League Baseball right fielder who plays for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. began the inning with consecutive singles, but all three stayed put. Bengie Molina Benjamin José ("Bengie" or "Ben") Molina (born July 20 1974 in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico) is the starting catcher for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. After being initially regarded as a "good glove, no hit" catcher, Molina has developed into one of the better followed with a lineout to second, and Casey Kotchman Casey John Kotchman (born February 22, 1983 in St. Petersburg, Florida) is a Major League Baseball first baseman for Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He hit his first Major League home run on August 5 2005. In 47 games in 2005, Kotchman had 7 home runs and 22 runs batted in. grounded into an inning-ending, 4-6-3 double play. Despite the loss, the Angels maintained their two-game lead over the Oakland A's, who also lost Wednesday. The weekend ahead looms large for both teams: The Angels play host to AL East-leading Boston, and the A's play Kansas City, losers of 18 in a row. The Angels looked like they might put some pressure on Towers early in the game. They tied the score at 1 in the bottom of the first on 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 Cabrerra, but the Blue Jays defense made several stellar plays in the following innings to shut down the Angels. First, it was left fielder Reed Johnson robbing Erstad of a single with a diving catch in shallow left-center in the first inning. In the second inning, the Angels had runners on first and second with nobody out when back- to-back plays thwarted the Angels' rally. Wells made a diving catch in center field to steal a hit from Maicer Izturis for the first out of the inning. Steve Finley followed with a popfly down the left-field line, and shortstop Aaron Hill made a spectacular diving catch in foul territory. Hill later had to leave the game. For good measure, Blue Jays second baseman Orlando Hudson made a running catch on Cabrera's popfly to shallow right field in the third. Angels starter Washburn had to work hard to get through the early innings. The Blue Jays scored once in the first, on Hillenbrand's RBI single, but Washburn used the double-play ball to get him out of jams in the third and fourth innings. The Blue Jays strung some hits together in the fifth, pushing across two runs for a 3-1 lead. Washburn worked a 1-2-3 sixth, his only flawless inning of the game, but by then had thrown 100 pitches and would not return for the seventh. Washburn (6-7) gave up three runs and eight hits in six innings. Joe Haakenson, (626) 962-8811 joe.haakenson(at)sgvn.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos, 4 boxes Photo: (1 -- color) Toronto's Reed Johnson, right, slides in safely past Angels catcher Bengie Molina to score on Vernon Wells' fifth-inning single in the Blue Jays' victory Wednesday night. (2) Orlando Cabrerra (18) undercuts Toronto's Aaron Hill, who made the throw to successfully completed the double play. Francis Specker/Associated Press Box: (1) ANGELS vs. BOSTON - 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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