BATS ANSWER SCIOSCIA'S CALL ANGELS TIE SEASON HIGH WITH 4 HOMERS IN VICTORY OVER TIGERS ANGELS 11, DETROIT 8.Byline: Joe Haakenson Staff Writer ANAHEIM - Angels manager Mike Scioscia
n.pl See business hours. before Saturday night's game against the Detroit Tigers The Detroit Tigers are a professional baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Tigers are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Tigers have played in Comerica Park. . Black's attendance was not required because the primary topic of the meeting was Saturday's lineup, and how to align it for optimal run productivity. The Angels offense has struggled lately and some players were beginning to press. So one could imagine how Scioscia and his staff felt when David Eckstein David Mark Eckstein, (born January 20, 1975 in Sanford, Florida), is a Major League Baseball shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals. He is noted for his size, as he is a small (for professional sports) 5' 7", but weighs 175 pounds. led off the Angels' half of the first inning with his first home run of the season. The Angels wound up with 17 hits, including a season-high-tying four home runs, in an 11-8 victory over the Tigers in front of a sellout crowd of 43,545 at Angel Stadium. The victory allowed the Angels to remain 1 1/2 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. Oakland 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. and one game behind Boston in the wild-card race. The 11 runs were the most the Angels have scored since they scored 11 on July 10 against Toronto. As impressive as the offense was, Angels reliever Francisco Rodriguez Francisco Rodriguez may refer to:
Every batter in the Angels' 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 hit (Robb Quinlan Robb William Quinlan (born March 17, 1977 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is a Major League Baseball player. He currently plays third base for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Quinlan graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1999, obtaining a degree in marketing and communications. led with three hits) and everyone except Garret Anderson scored at least one run. In addition to Eckstein, Jose Guillen, Quinlan and Chone Figgins hit home runs. Figgins, who was dropped to the No. 9 spot in the batting order for the first time this season, also had a single and drove in four runs. ``No matter where you hit you want to contribute to the team,'' Figgins said. ``(Scioscia) wanted to shake up the lineup. I guess it worked.'' Another change in the lineup was moving Anderson to the No. 5 spot, the first time this season he's batted anything other than third or fourth. Darin Erstad, who began the season hitting second but had been moved to No. 6, returned to the second spot. ``We looked at a lot of things over the last two or three weeks,'' Scioscia said. ``We need to get that continuity. We're scoring some runs but not with the consistency we've shown. This lineup has a lot of elements working in our favor.'' The timing of the meeting couldn't have been better, considering the Angels needed nearly every run. The Tigers had 11 hits of their own, including home runs by Carlos Pena (two), Ivan Rodriguez and Rondell White. Angels starter Ramon Ortiz didn't qualify for the victory because he failed to last five innings, giving up six runs and eight hits in 4 2/3 innings. Kevin Gregg (5-1) got the victory even though he wasn't exactly unhittable, giving up two runs and two hits in 2 1/3 innings and allowing the Tigers to cut the deficit to 11-8. Gregg was replaced to start the eighth by Brendan Donnelly, but Donnelly lost the strike zone and the Tigers loaded the bases on a single, walk and hit batsman with nobody out. Donnelly got Carlos Guillen on a called third strike for the first out of the inning, and then left the game in favor of Francisco Rodriguez. The new lineup paid off immediately as the Angels got five hits in the first inning alone. However, they scored only two runs in the inning, leaving the bases loaded. Joe Haakenson, (626) 962-8811 joe.haakenson(at)sgvn.com CAPTION(S): box Box: GAME RECAP |
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