Sunday, August 12, 2007 |
No Monkey Required: Angels 6, Twins 2
Bonser kept the Angels off the board for one inning, and then Garret Anderson led off the second with a double, and Casey Kotchman drove him in on an RBI single that led to Kotch guessing wrong about his ability to make second on a throw that never got to the plate. Instead, he got caught in a 7-5-4-1-6 rundown, and what was a promising Angels rally turned a little sour with one out. It was too bad, because after DH (!) Maicer Izturis flied out quietly, Erick Aybar got his first major league triple of the season on a long flyball to the right field corner that Mike Cuddyer just couldn't come up with cleanly. But Jeff Mathis popped out harmlessly to second baseman Alexi Casilla to end the threatlet.
The Angels didn't score again until the fifth, when Reggie Willits and Chone Figgins reached on consecutive singles. Orlando Cabrera cashed in Willits on a long double, and Anderson drove home Figgins on a 6-3 fielder's choice that was very nearly a double play ball.
The Angels poured it on in the sixth, with Willits getting a two-out walk and Figgins stroking a 3-2 pitch into the first row over the low wall in right field. That prompted a pitching change, with Ricardo Rincon eventually making the final out of the inning, though not without surrendering a single to Cabrera. The Angels picked up one more on Jeff Mathis's leadoff homer in the eighth, but that was all.
Meantime, Jered Weaver posted another fine outing, carrying a shutout through five, and giving up only five hits and two runs over seven and a third, his fourth quality start in his last six games. It wasn't a complete game shutout to match big brother's, but the W stands just the same.
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