CLEANING UP IN BALTIMORE ANGELS WIN AS BASEBALL RETURNS TO CAMDEN YARDS ANGELS 6, BALTIMORE 5.Byline: Joe Haakenson Staff Writer BALTIMORE - Cleanup crews have made big strides in the past 36 hours to extract smoldering smol·der also smoul·der intr.v. smol·dered, smol·der·ing, smol·ders 1. To burn with little smoke and no flame. 2. rail cars from a tunnel after last Wednesday's train derailment derailment /de·rail·ment/ (de-ral´ment) disordered thought or speech characteristic of schizophrenia and marked by constant jumping from one topic to another before the first is fully realized. . But something strange lingered in the air Saturday night over Camden Yards. How else to explain Angels closer Troy Percival Troy Eugene Percival (born August 9, 1969 in Fontana, California) is a Major League Baseball reliever on the St. Louis Cardinals. Percival came out of retirement on June 8, 2007 when he signed a minor league deal with the Cardinals[1]. giving up three runs in the ninth inning to allow the Baltimore Orioles This article is about the contemporary American major league baseball team. For other uses, see Baltimore Oriole (disambiguation). The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. to tie the game? And how else to explain local hero Cal Ripken taking a grounder off the chest to allow the winning run to score in the 10th? Whatever the reasons, the Angels left Camden Yards smiling after their 6-5, 10-inning victory before a sellout crowd of 47,234 in the first game here since the midweek train accident. No one could have been happier than Percival, who had allowed only six earned runs all season - none on the road - when he took the mound in the ninth and the Angels leading 5-2. Troy Glaus Troy Edward Glaus (born August 3, 1976 in Tarzana, California) is a Major League Baseball player who plays third base for the Toronto Blue Jays. Previously, Glaus played with the Anaheim Angels (1998-2004) and the Arizona Diamondbacks (2005). had two home runs and four 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 , 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. had four hits and starting pitcher Noun 1. starting pitcher - (baseball) a pitcher who starts in a baseball game 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"; Ramon Ortiz yielded two runs and five hits in 7 2/3 innings to put the Angels in position for their fifth victory in a row. But the Orioles, propelled by three hits and three stolen bases, scored three runs off Percival to tie the game 5-5. Brian Roberts' two-out single drove in the first run of the inning to make it 5-3. Percival then got set to face Melvin Mora with Jerry Hairston on third and Roberts on first, Roberts representing the tying run. But Percival failed to hold Roberts close to first, and he stole second without a throw. Mora MORA, In civil law. This term, in mora, is used to denote that a party to a contract, who is obliged to do anything, has neglected to perform it, and is in default. Story on Bailm. Sec. 123, 259; Jones on Bailm. 70; Poth. Pret a Usage, c. 2, Sec. 2, art. 2, n. followed with a single to center to score both runners and tie the game. Mora stole second and third, but Percival escaped by striking out Chris Richard. ``I got real careless when the tying run was on first base,'' said Percival, who was tagged with only his second blown save of the season. ``I should have used (a quick step to the plate) there. I probably should have used it the whole time. I made a couple mistakes that inning and that was one of them.'' Percival's only other blown save this season came June 16 when the Dodgers' Eric Karros hit a game-tying two-run homer. But the Angels won the game in the bottom of the ninth on an RBI single by Garret Anderson. Saturday, his teammates came to the rescue again. With two out in the top of the 10th, Scott Spiezio hit a long fly ball to right field that hit high off the scoreboard and caromed over the head of Richard and toward second base. By the time center fielder Mora picked up the ball, Spiezio had a triple. Bengie Molina followed with a hard-hit grounder to Ripken at third, but the ball took a funny hop off Ripken's chest. By the time he retrieved the ball, the slow-footed Molina reached first with an infield hit and Spiezio scored. ``I thought it was a routine ground ball,'' Molina said. ``When I didn't see a throw I said, `Damn, I'm fast.' '' Said Angels manager Mike Scioscia: ``If you don't see Cal field a ball, you know something happened. Bengie hit the ball hard to give us a chance. That hop was out of the Twilight Zone, but we'll take it.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Angels right-hander Ramon Ortiz delivers to the Orioles' Jeff Conine in the fourth inning in Baltimore. Roberto Borea/Associated Press |
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