FOR FINLEY, TWO IS TOO MANY IN DEFEAT : TORONTO 5, ANGELS 1.Byline: Joe Haakenson Chuck Finley The left-hander made 100 in all, but the two bad ones cost him and the Angels in a 5-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays "Blue Jays" redirects here. For other uses, see Blue Jay (disambiguation).. The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. in front of 23,775 at SkyDome. The Blue Jays' victory was their sixth in a row, while the Angels have lost three of four and fallen two games below .500 (6-8) for the first time this season. Blue Jays starter Kelvim Escobar Kelvim Jose Escobar Bolivar [ess-coe-BAR] (born April 11, 1976 in La Guaira, Venezuela) is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who currently plays for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2004-present). He bats and throws right handed. (2-0) gave up one run and eight hits in 6-1/3 innings to get the win. But it didn't matter to Finley (1-2) that the Angels offense failed to come up with clutch hits. After the game he couldn't stop talking about his two mistakes. Both came in the Blue Jays' four-run fifth inning. The first was a 3-2 offering to Carlos Delgado This article is about the baseball player. For the Venezuelan president, see Carlos Delgado Chalbaud. Carlos Juan Delgado Hernández (born June 25, 1972 in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball first baseman for the New York Mets. that was ruled high. The bases-loaded walk forced in a run to give the Toronto a 2-1 lead. The next was a 1-2 fastball to Tony Fernandez, who ripped it into the gap in left-center, scoring all three baserunners for a 5-1 advantage and knocking Finley out of the game. ``It basically came down to two pitches,'' Finley said. ``The pitch to Delgado. . . . I have to bear down against Fernandez. I had just thrown a fastball in for a strike and tried to come in again but left it out over the plate. And he got it.'' It all happened when it appeared Finley might work his way out of trouble. The Jays loaded the bases on a hit batsman, a bunt single and a walk with nobody out. But Finley got Jose Cruz Jose Luis Cruz (Cheo) can refer to different people:
Green was a 1st round draft pick, and has been a two-time major league All-Star. for the first two outs of the inning. ``The last out is always the toughest,'' Finley said. ``That was a big one. ``I made too many pitches. I had great stuff tonight, but 100 pitches in 4-2/3 innings - that's ridiculous. . . . I feel great, that's what's so frustrating about it. I've got everything working. What's so frustrating is I've got to make two pitches. I miss one, miss the other, and it's `See you later.' '' Finley's line: 4-2/3 innings, five runs, five hits, three walks, four strikeouts. The Angels had their chances early against Escobar but couldn't come up with the big hit, even though they had the right hitter at the plate. 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). went into the game hitting .455 (5 for 11) with five 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 when batting with runners in scoring position In the sport of baseball, a baserunner is said to be in scoring position when he is on second or third base. The distinction between being on first base and second or third base is that a runner on first can usually only score if the batter hits an extra base hit, while a runner on . Still, in the first inning after the Angels had already scored on Tim Salmon's RBI single, Glaus struck out with runners on first and third to end the inning. Then in the third, Glaus came to the plate with runners on second and third and one out and struck out again. Glaus wasn't the only one to fail in a clutch situation. In the seventh, the Angels had runners on second and third with one out, but Darin Erstad popped out to shallow left and Salmon struck out. ``In certain situations we don't even need a hit,'' Angels manager Terry Collins said. ``When the situation calls for a ground ball or a fly ball, they're giving you a run for an out. Escobar stepped up and got the strikeout when he needed it.'' The Blue Jays also played outstanding defense behind Escobar. Green robbed Erstad of extra bases with a leaping catch at the fence in right field in the fifth. That came one batter after Fernandez made a barehanded bare·hand·ed adv. & adj. With no covering on the hands: barehanded boxing. bare play on a chopper by Randy Velarde. Center fielder Jose Cruz went into the left-center field gap to make a running catch on a drive by Andy Sheets in the seventh. ``Tony made a nice play at third, they made two nice running catches in the outfield,'' Collins noted. ``But we had opportunities to get back in the game and we didn't do it.'' |
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