ANGELS STUMBLE AGAIN LACKEY HAS ROUGH OUTING AS TEAM LOSES THIRD IN ROW TEXAS 7, ANGELS 3.Byline: DOUG PADILLA Douglas ("Doug") Padilla (born October 4, 1956 in Oakland, California) is a former middle and long distance runner from the United States, who won the overall Grand Prix 1985 and the World Cup 5000m race in 1985. Staff Writer ANAHEIM - John Lackey's good fortune has apparently turned with the calendar. The American League's Pitcher of the Month The Pitcher of the Month award is a Major League Baseball award named by each league for each month of the regular season. The National League started recognizing the award in 1975. The American League followed in 1979. for July looked dated against 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. on Friday as he gave up six walks, allowed Mark DeRosa's first career grand slam grand slam n. 1. The winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games. 2. Sports The winning of all the major or specified events, especially on a professional circuit. and needed 96 pitches to go just 4 1/3 innings. The 7-3 defeat to the Rangers left the Angels with a three-game losing streak and dropped them into third place in the AL West, a half-game behind the second-place Rangers and three games behind In sports, the phrase games behind, often abbreviated as GB in tables, is a common way to reflect the gap between a leading team and another team in a sports league, conference, or division. the division- leading Oakland Athletics “Philadelphia Athletics” redirects here. For other uses, see Philadelphia Athletics (disambiguation). The Oakland Athletics are a professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. . After a 6-4 trip, when the offense seemed to get on track, the current homestand has been unkind. The Angels totaled just six runs in three games against the A's and haven't been able to get past the Rangers in the first two games of a four-game series. Rangers starter Vicente Padilla Vicente Padilla (born September 27, 1977 in Chinandega, Nicaragua) is a professional baseball player, a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Texas Rangers. He has also played for the Arizona Diamondbacks and, most notably, the Philadelphia Phillies. (11-7) stayed around the plate but the Angels couldn't muster an attack. Padilla gave up three runs on seven hits in seven innings. ``Padilla was pounding the strike zone and if you look at his ball-strike ratio early in the game it was terrific,'' Angels manager Mike Scioscia The Angels are just 1-4 on the homestand and 25-28 in their own ballpark this season. The good news is that a mammoth four-city trip is just two games away as the Angels will head out to Chicago, Cleveland, New York Cleveland is a village in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 758 at the 2000 census. The Village of Cleveland is at the eastern boundary of the Town of Constantia on Route 49. History The Village of Cleveland was incorporated in 1857. and Texas. The Angels have at least turned frequent-flier miles, hotel nights and hostile crowds into a 30-26 road record. Lackey figured to be just what the Angels needed Friday, but his first start in August was more like something out of his winless May. From the very start it was obvious the right-hander didn't have the form that led him to a 5-1 July record with a 2.08 ERA. ``I think his fastball command hurt him,'' Scioscia said. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if he was trying to be too fine too early in the count but he was behind hitters and had a lot of counts he was trying to get back into. Against a club like Texas, that's going to be a tough way to go.'' The seven earned runs Lackey gave up were just three less than he allowed in six starts last month. ``I might have been a little bit too fine early on,'' Lackey said. ``That might have definitely had something to do with it. But they have a good lineup and you have to be careful.'' With two outs in the first inning and the Rangers' Michael Young on second base, Lackey walked three consecutive batters to force in a run. He allowed free passes to Mark Teixeira, Hank Blalock Hank Joe Blalock (born November 21, 1980 in San Diego, California) is a Major League baseball third baseman who currently plays for the Texas Rangers. Hank Blalock has recently been diagnosed with Thoracic outlet syndrome. In some circles Hank is known as "The Block. and DeRosa. Teixeira's walk was the first of three consecutive he would receive from Lackey. The Angels tied the score in the second inning on a home run just inside the right-field foul pole from Garret Anderson. It was Anderson's ninth of the season and first since July 17. The Angels took a 2-1 lead in the third inning on Orlando Cabrera's 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. single into center field that scored Maicer Izturis. Vladimir Guerrero also singled in the third inning to give him a hit in all 44 games he has played against the Rangers. It is the longest streak against any opponent in at least the past 50 years and longest since the Seattle Mariners' Ken Griffey Jr. hit in 35 consecutive against the Cleveland Indians from 1992-96. Guerrero added a double in the eighth inning and is batting .443 (77for174) in his career against the Rangers. Texas regained the lead back in the fourth inning on a two-run single from Ian Kinsler to take a 3-2 advantage. They made it 7-2 in the fifth inning. Two walks and a single loaded the bases before DeRosa cracked a 2-1 cut fastball from Lackey just over the short wall in left field. It was DeRosa's eighth home run of the season. ``I didn't really command anything,'' Lackey said. ``It was a situation where I got into trouble and needed to make some pitches and wasn't able to do it tonight. I didn't really find a pitch I could go to when I needed something.'' doug.padilla@sgvn.com (626) 962-8811, Ext. 2731 CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Angels catcher Mike Napoli can't stop Texas' Matt Stairs from scoring on a fourth-inning double Friday. Francis Specker/Associated Press Box: ANGELS vs. TEXAS - Doug Padilla |
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