Sunday, August 13, 2006 |
Weaver Bends, Doesn't Break: Angels 5, Yankees 3
Chone Figgins, continuing his good hitting against the Yankees, went 3-4 with a leadoff home run in the first and even managed to drive in a couple. Not so good was Mike Napoli, who had another 0-fer game, and is certainly looking very much like the guy who had a .237 average in AA Arkansas last year. Even though one of them was an infield single, Robb Quinlan managed a 2-4 night against a righty; it's interesting to see that he's still only hitting .254 against righthanders this year, despite what seems to me like recent improvements in that category.
Though the two homers Scot Shields surrendered didn't have any effect on the outcome of the game, they did increase his ERA for the month; going into the game, his pre-All-Star ERA was a very good 2.47, but 3.14 going into the game — and climbing. Shockingly, Brendan Donnelly got three straight airballs to retire the side in order, and he's actually been getting a little better over time. It's not enough to make me want him in the relief lineup ahead of Shields, but it's definitely encouraging.
Update: Alex Belth was there.
Considering that WTY threw about 70 pitches in the first three innings, give him a ton of credit for being able to make it through six against that Yankee lineup.
Incidentally: Yahoo! sports has the same botched article. It's not by ESPN; rather, it is the AP wire story, authored by Hal Bock. You can only assume that he felt he had something more important to do than to do his job today.
There's no excuse for that kind of sloppiness.
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