August 27, 2007
Great Slide
Gary Matthews makes a fantastic pop up slide to avoid a tag on a single he was trying to stretch into a double. Ichiro slides on a liner to center, and the ball goes just behind him. Matthews goes for second, but Suzuki gets the ball and fires it to second. Lopez is waiting for Gary to slide into the tag, but Matthews, puts on the brakes and pops up. Lopez sweeps, misses, giving Gary just enough time to step on the bag. A real close slow motion replay makes it look like Lopez got him on the shirt a fraction of a second before the foot hit the bag, but it was very close. Nice work by Matthews turning a lemon into lemonade. It's 3-0 Angels in the top of the fourth.
Update: Mathis squeezes home the fourth run of the game for LAnaheim.