FANS SALUTE ANGELS DESPITE LOSING EFFORT WINNING STREAK SNAPPED; COLON ROCKED BY D-RAYS TAMPA BAY 8, ANGELS 4.Byline: Keven Chavez Staff Writer ANAHEIM - After Tampa Bay Devil Rays The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are a professional baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida, Florida. The Devil Rays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Devil Rays have played in Tropicana Field. left fielder Carl Crawford Carl Demonte Crawford (born August 5 1981 in Houston, Texas) is the starting left fielder for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays of Major League Baseball. He bats and throws left-handed. caught a foul ball to end Sunday's game, the Angels came out of their dugout and accepted the warm congratulations from a near-capacity crowd at Angel Stadium. It's not the response one might expect as the Angels, a team in the middle of a pennant race, dropped an 8-4 decision to the last-place Devil Rays. Instead, this was a forgivable mulligan mul·li·gan n. A golf shot not tallied against the score, granted in informal play after a poor shot especially from the tee. [Probably from the name Mulligan.] Noun 1. - a slight misstep in an otherwise exceptional 10-game homestand. Less than two weeks ago, the Angels returned home tied for first place with 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. 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. . Today, after eight consecutive wins sandwiched between single losses, they arrive in Oakland for an important four-game series with a four-game lead in the division race. The home crowd of 41,733, which capped a franchise season-record total of 3,404,686, could stand and cheer knowing that there is a better-than-average chance the Angels haven't yet played their final game of the season here. The Angels, on the other hand, were in no mood to celebrate before heading to the Bay Area. ``That (four-game) edge is neither here nor there,'' Angels manager Mike Scioscia The A's missed an opportunity to pick up a game in the standings by losing to 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. , 6-2, later Sunday evening. It also dropped the Angels' magic number for clinching the division to four. Last season, the Angels trailed the A's in the West by three games with 10 games to play. It took an 8-2 finish, including two critical victories in the season-ending series in Oakland, to clinch the division crown. The Angels are well aware that tide could easily turn in this upcoming series. ``We're in a better spot than we were last year, but you can't take anything for granted,'' Angels pitcher Jarrod Washburn said. ``They're very capable of a sweep.'' The Angels could not take the Devil Rays for granted either. Tampa Bay knocked around Angels ace Bartolo Colon (20-8) for six runs in five innings, punctuated by back-to-back home runs on consecutive third-inning pitches by Jorge Cantu and Aubrey Huff. The homers gave the Devil Rays a 4-1 lead. Keven Chavez, (626) 962-8811 keven.chavez(at)sgvn.com CAPTION(S): photo, 2 boxes Photo: Angels starter Bartolo Colon flips the ball in the air after giving up a home run to Tampa Bay's Aubrey Huff in the third inning. Francis Specker/Associated Press Box: (1) ANGELS AT OAKLAND - Keven Chavez (2) ALMANAC almanac, originally, a calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. |
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