DONNELLY HIT HARD IN DEFEAT RELIEVER GIVES UP TWO RUNS; ANGELS FLAT AGAINST A'S LILLY OAKLAND 3, ANGELS 2.Byline: Gabe Lacques Staff Writer ANAHEIM - Brendan Donnelly Brendan Kevin Donnelly (b. July 4, 1971 in Washington, D.C.) is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher with the Boston Red Sox. Donnelly had bounced around the minor leagues for 10 seasons after he was drafted in 1992 by the Chicago White Sox before he finally made his finally let the Angels down. But the real culprit in Friday night's 3-2 loss to the 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. was a lineup that again succumbed to a fairly undistinguished un·dis·tin·guished adj. 1. a. Marked by no peculiar quality; not distinguished; ordinary: an undistinguished appearance. b. 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"; . Donnelly, the Angels' set-up man extraordinaire ex·tra·or·di·naire adj. Extraordinary: a jazz singer extraordinaire. [French, from Old French, from Latin extra who came in leading the major leagues in earned runs, was touched up for four hits and two runs in the eighth inning, erasing a 1-0 Angels lead. Francisco Rodriguez Francisco Rodriguez may refer to:
bottom inning, frame - (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat , the Angels' first pinch homer of the year, was for naught. Donnelly, as close to perfect as anything in this far-from-perfect season, was roughed up as Oakland stunned an Edison Field crowd of 43,797, the largest this season. The loss pushed the Angels (51-50) 10 1/2 games behind Seattle 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 6 1/2 games behind second-place Oakland. It was their seventh loss in nine games since the All-Star break. Entering Friday, Donnelly had given up just two earned runs this season, his 0.36 ERA the best in baseball. But after he escaped a two-on, two-out jam in the seventh to pick up starter John Lackey, Oakland got to him in the eighth. Consecutive doubles by Erubiel Durazo and Miguel Tejada tied the score at 1-1, then Ramon Hernandez put the A's in front for the first time with 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. Mark Ellis followed with a double, and for the first time this season, Donnelly walked off the mound with a blown save. Tim Salmon and Garret Anderson hit one-out singles in the eighth to put the tying and go-ahead runs on base, but Chad Bradford got Shawn Wooten to ground into a double play. After McMillon tacked on an insurance run with a solo homer off Rodriguez, Keith Foulke pitched the bottom of the ninth, yielding Kennedy's homer, for his 26th save. While the loss went to Donnelly, blowing a stellar 6 2/3-inning, no-run performance from Lackey, Friday's real goat was a lineup that managed nothing beyond Scott Spiezio's RBI single in the sixth inning. Save for a two-game burst amid the hot air and spotty pitching of Texas, the Angels' lineup has struggled mightily since the break, going 2-7 while getting shut down by the likes of Baltimore's Rodrigo Lopez and Rick Helling and Tampa Bay's Joe Kennedy and Rob Bell. Oakland's starter Friday, Ted Lilly, came in with a 5.22 ERA but gave up just one run in seven innings, hanging around long enough to improve to 6-8. With Brad Fullmer out for the season with a knee injury and third baseman Troy Glaus out indefinitely with a shoulder injury, the Angels' offensive depth has been thinned. But despite the Angels' sluggish start to the second half, general manager Bill Stoneman said the Angels are actively interested in pursuing a trade to improve the club. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Brendan Donnelly (53) and Scott Spiezio look at the scoreboard after the Angels reliever gave up two runs in the eighth inning. Kevork Djansezian/Associated Press |
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