Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
July 02, 2008
One Inning Short

The Athletics and Angels received seven good innings of pitching Tuesday night. Ervin Santana allowed just two runs over seven innings for LAnaheim, while Rich Harden and Brad Ziegler did the same for Oakland, striking out eight along the way. Shields pitched the eighth for the Angels and allowed a home run to Mark Ellis, putting the A's on top 3-2. The A's countered with Embree in the bottom of the ninth. Alan is an interesting pitcher, in that his walks and strikeouts are good, but opponents still hit him. Once more, batters tend to hit Embree for power, as twelve of the 33 hits against him have gone for extra bases. He allowed a double, single and home run in his half of the eight as the Angels scored three to take the game 5-3. Garrett Anderson turned out to be the hero, hitting a two run shot that proved to be the winning margin.

Rodriguez picked up his 33rd save in the ninth and continues to move toward the record. As long as the Angels keep the scores close, he'll keep racking up the saves. The worst thing that could happen to his chances is the Angels offense starting to score six runs per game. LAnaheim won't play as many close games in that kind of run environment.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:27 AM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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