ORIOLES' POWER DEFEATS ANGELS AGAIN : ZEILE CONTINUES HIS TORRID HITTING FOR LATEST OUTFIT BALTIMORE 4, ANGELS 2.Byline: John Nadel Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Brady Anderson Brady Kevin Anderson (born January 18 1964 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is a former center and left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, and Cleveland Indians. Anderson attended Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, California. hit his 44th home run and Todd Zeile The Orioles hit nine home runs in the three-game series at Anaheim Stadium, giving them a major-league-leading 225. But Eddie Murray failed to connect, leaving him stuck at 499 for his career. The 40-year-old switch-hitter had one hit in four at-bats - a double in the fifth. He remains on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of becoming the 15th player to hit 500 homers. When he reaches that plateau, which could be during the Orioles' seven-game homestand that opens Friday night, he will join Hank Aaron and Willie Mays as the only players to hit 500 homers with 3,000 career hits. Baltimore remained four games behind New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of in the AL East. Zeile, from Hart High and UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , finished the series with seven hits in 12 at-bats, including all three of his homers as an Oriole oriole, common name applied to various perching birds of the Old (family Oriolidae) and New (family Icteridae) Worlds. The European orioles are allied to the crows, while the American orioles, of the hangnest group, belong to the blackbird and meadowlark family. . He hit 20 with the Phillies. Scott Erickson (10-11) allowed two runs on five hits in 7-1/3 innings. Down 4-1 in the eighth, the Angels tried to rally. Erickson left with a runner on third and one out and reliever Jesse Orosco walked pinch-hitter Randy Velarde. Terry Mathews then gave up 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 to pinch-hitter Darin Erstad, making it 4-2. With two outs and runners on first and third, Mathews walked Tim Salmon, with ball four trickling behind catcher Mark Parent. Velarde started to break for the plate but stopped, and Parent's throw trapped him in a rundown for the last out. Had Velarde stayed put, Chili Davis would have batted with the bases loaded. Randy Myers struck out the side in the ninth for his 27th save. Anderson hit his 44th homer with one out in the sixth and Zeile followed with his third since being acquired by the Orioles from the Philadelphia last Thursday, for a 2-1 lead. Dennis Springer (4-4) had blanked the Orioles on three hits before Anderson and Zeile hit consecutive homers for the second time in three days against the Angels. Roberto Alomar followed with a single that chased knock Springer, and Palmeiro greeted Mark Holzemer with his 32nd homer. The Angels took a 1-0 lead in the first. Jim Edmonds hit a one-out double, went to third on an error by left fielder B.J. Surhoff, and scored on Salmon's grounder. Notes: The Orioles face Detroit this weekend at Camden Yards. The Tigers have the highest ERA in the big leagues and have allowed 36 of Murray's homers. . . . Springer shut the Orioles out 13-0 on Aug. 25 for the only complete game of his career, but he has given up 11 homers in his past five starts. . . . Orioles second baseman Alomar made a nifty play to retire Davis for the final out of the fourth. Alomar, a five-time Gold Glove winner, backhanded Davis' grounder up the middle and flipped the ball to shortstop Cal Ripken, who threw Davis out at first by a couple of steps. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO The Orioles' Brady Anderson slides to catch a third-i nning ball hit by the Angels' George Arias. Associated Press |
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