6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog: Lackey K's B Team A's: Angels 2, A's 0

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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Lackey K's B Team A's: Angels 2, A's 0

John Lackey walked away with perhaps his best outing of the year, striking out eleven Athletics, a career high. He had some help from Ken Macha, of course: at least five of those — CF Hiram Bocachica, DH Mark Kotsay, 1B Dan Johnson, SS D'Angelo Jimenez, and 3B Antonio Perez — wouldn't have been in the lineup had the Angels and A's really been in it. No matter. The Angels beat Barry Zito, who pitched well but lost as the scrubs behind him were unable to put any runs on the board.

Vlad collected his 200th hit of the season, and so we may well assume he will be out for the balance of the team's games; Tim Salmon came in to pinch-run for him, perhaps one of the only times in his career he's been asked to do that. Reggie Willits, characteristically, got a hit on an infield single, but his ability to swing the bat at the major league level is a matter of speculation at this point, and so we relegate him to the level of bench bat in 2007. Chone Figgins posted another 0-fer day at the leadoff spot, and Juan Rivera drove in the Angels' first run. The Halos' picked up their second on Napoli's solo blast off reliever Joe Kennedy. It was his only hit of the game, but he made it count. Three more after tonight, and I plan on being at all of them, meaningless or no.

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