ANGELS NOTEBOOK: ANDERSON LOOKS LIKE HIS OLD SELF.Byline: Gabe Lacques Staff Writer TEMPE, Ariz. - There is only one test, lasting 162 games, that will truly determine if 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. is all the way back from an injury-wracked 2004 season. For now, all the Angels can do is look for signs their left fielder and cleanup hitter In baseball, the cleanup hitter is the hitter who bats fourth in the lineup. Strategy Cleanup hitters often have the most power on the team and are typically the team's best all-around hitter; their job is to "clean up the bases", hence the name. will provide the consistent production they'll need. One week from the start of the season, they like what they see, and he likes how he feels. For manager Mike Scioscia baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; Mickey Hatcher, it's in the manner Anderson has attacked the strike zone, an aggression Hatcher said was missing last year after Anderson sat out 43 games with undifferentiated arthritis in his back. That injury was preceded by a 19-day spring training bout with right biceps tendinitis. ``This year, we haven't had those (negative) physical indicators,'' Scioscia said. ``The bat speed looks good. Garret is a guy who can drive in 100 runs. We need him to drive in runs from that four-hole, and we're very, very confident he's at that level.'' Anderson (Kennedy High of Granada Hills) doubled and hit 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 in Monday's 14-8 win over Milwaukee, and he scored from first on a double to the right-field corner. It pushed his average from .225 to .262. ``How can I not feel better? It's not even a comparison,'' Anderson said. ``That's what you want for every year, to start the season healthy, and that's how I feel.'' --Testing starts: Player representative Josh Paul said he was among eight Angels players to submit to random drug testing Monday, the first batch of testing in the clubhouse this spring. -- Name battle heads for state: The city of Anaheim took its legal battle with the renamed Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim For the pre-1958 Pacific Coast League team, see . The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are a professional baseball team based in Anaheim, California. The Angels are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. to a state appeals court, seeking to block use of the new name before the start of the regular baseball season. An Orange County Superior Court judge has set a Nov. 7 date for a trial in a lawsuit filed by the city of Anaheim challenging the team's addition of ``Los Angeles'' to its name, but the city hopes the appeals court will impose an emergency order blocking use of the new moniker (1) A name, title or alias. See alias. (2) A COM object that is used to create instances of other objects. Monikers save programmers time when coding various types of COM-based functions such as linking one document to another (OLE). See COM and OLE. in the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile . -- Also: Dallas McPherson got three hits in eight at-bats in minor-league games. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Gabe Lacques, (626) 962-8811 gabe.lacques(at)sgvn.com CAPTION(S): box Box: BEYOND THE BOX SCORE |
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