MORE GROUND LOST ANGELS RALLY FALLS SHORT AGAINST MARINERS SEATTLE 6, ANGELS 4.Byline: Gabe Lacques Staff Writer ANAHEIM - Adam Kennedy For other people with the same name, see Adam Kennedy (disambiguation). Adam Thomas Kennedy (born January 10, 1976 in Riverside, California) is a Major League Baseball player. He currently plays second base for the St. Louis Cardinals. Kennedy attended J.W. headed for home plate with a full head of steam, knowing he represented the tying run, knowing the Angels could ill afford to fall 13 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. the Seattle Mariners The Seattle Mariners are a professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. The Mariners are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Mariners have played in Safeco Field. , and knowing catcher Dan Wilson Dan Wilson may refer to:
Wilson absorbed the blow from Kennedy, held onto the ball, and then spiked it a few feet away from a prone Kennedy to punctuate punc·tu·ate v. punc·tu·at·ed, punc·tu·at·ing, punc·tu·ates v.tr. 1. To provide (a text) with punctuation marks. 2. the end of the fifth inning Tuesday night. Take that. Then, the Mariners lowered the boom on the Angels, chasing starter Aaron Sele Aaron Helmer Sele (born June 25, 1970 in Golden Valley, Minnesota) is an MLB right-handed pitcher who plays for the New York Mets. His family moved to Poulsbo, Washington, a Scandinavian town on the Kitsap Peninsula, where Aaron pitched for North Kitsap High School. with four runs in the sixth to ensure a 6-4 victory in front of 39,121 at Edison Field. Despite the loss, the Angels showed some fight, and not just because Kennedy didn't back down from a collision. They crawled out of a 6-1 hole to bring the tying run to the plate in the bottom of the ninth. But after Jeff DaVanon's pinch-hit 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 made it 6-4, Darin Erstad Darin Charles Erstad (born June 4, 1974 in Jamestown, North Dakota) is a first baseman/center fielder in Major League Baseball currently with the Chicago White Sox. Prior to 2007, he had played his entire career with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim franchise (1996-2006). flew out to left field and Troy Glaus struck out against Jeff Nelson to end the game. So instead of cutting into Seattle's lead, the Angels (36-38) again fell 13 1/2 games behind the Mariners after stranding four runners in the last three innings. Glaus stranded three of them, unable to deliver out of the No. 2 hole in the Angels' new-look lineup. ``We'll never say die until we're mathematically eliminated,'' Glaus said. ``We know what we're capable of. We just need to play that way.'' With Glaus hitting second, Erstad leading off and struggling David Eckstein dropped to ninth, the Angels' lineup showed more signs of life, but Kennedy termed their offense ``halfway there.'' The way Sele has been pitching of late, halfway there is not nearly enough. For the second consecutive outing, the Mariners chased Sele before he could record an out in the sixth inning. Sele (3-6) has failed to pitch more than five innings in six of his past seven starts. On Tuesday, he again was wildly inconsistent with his control, throwing just 42 strikes among his 77 pitches; in his previous start, he threw just 53 strikes in 100 pitches. He induced three double-play grounders in the first five innings and kept the Angels in it, trailing just 2-1. But in the sixth, his command evaporated almost immediately, as Ichiro Suzuki doubled, Carlos Guillen singled, Bret Boone hit a two-run homer and Edgar Martinez walked on four pitches. Gabe Lacques, (626) 962-8811 gabe.lacques(at)sgvn.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Seattle center fielder Mike Cameron came up empty on a ball hit by the Angels' Tim Salmon in the fourth inning Tuesday. Chris Carlson/Associated Press |
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