|
|
|
|
 |
|
Scores Schedules Standings Statistics Transactions Injuries: AL | NL Players Weekly Lineup Message Board Minor Leagues MLB Stat Search Clubhouses |
| Sport Sections |
|
|
| |
Tuesday, May 16 7:05pm ET
Orioles 4, Angels 3 | |||||
|
| ||||||
|
RECAP
|
BOX SCORE
|
GAME LOG
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) _ Scott Erickson won for the first time since elbow surgery, and Albert Belle and Mike Bordick homered as the Baltimore Orioles beat the Anaheim Angels 4-3 Tuesday night to stop a seven-game losing streak. Erickson (1-1) allowed three runs and nine hits in seven innings in his third start since bone chips were removed from his right elbow on March 3. In his previous two outings, he allowed 12 earned runs in 8 2-3 innings. Erickson improved to 16-4 against the Angels, becoming the first Orioles starter to win in 15 games since Mike Mussina's complete game against Texas on April 29. Mike Timlin got three outs for his third save. Jeff Conine nearly homered in the eighth, but left fielder Darin Erstad leaped above the fence in left-center to pull it back. Delino DeShields scored after doubling and crossing to third on Belle's fly to right, a ball that Tim Salmon stopped from becoming a home run when he ran it down at the short fence near the foul pole. Kent Bottenfield (3-4) gave up four runs and seven hits in 7 1-3 innings. Conine's sacrifice fly, on reliever Mark Petkovsek's first pitch of the game, marked the first of 16 inherited runner this season that Petkovsek has allowed to score. The Orioles, who opened the scoring in the second inning on Belle's leadoff homer, tied the score at 3 in the sixth when Brady Anderson led off with a single and Bordick followed with a drive into the left-field bullpen for his eighth homer. Belle opened the scoring with his fifth homer, leading off the second. But he committed his first fielding error in 34 starts in right field this season during the Angels' two-run fourth. After one-out singles by Bengie Molina and Benji Gil, Erstad lined a single to right. Molina was held at third by coach Ron Roenicke, but continued home when Belle bobbled the ball. Gil tagged up and advanced to third on Adam Kennedy's fly to right, then scored Anaheim's third run on Mo Vaughn's single under the glove of Conine at first. Notes: Tuesday marked four years since The Walt Disney Co. became managing partner of the Angels, following more than 35 years of ownership by Gene Autry. Since then, their record is 309-339. ... Cal Ripken Jr. was noncommittal when asked if his current back problem would have ended his consecutive game playing streak, had it occurred before he had a chance to break Lou Gehrig's record. "There are different levels of pain," said Ripken, whose streak of 2,632 games ended on Sept. 20, 1998. "The reason I stopped playing then was that I couldn't play. The reason I had surgery (last September) was that I had to have it, and the reason why I haven't played the last four days was because I couldn't." ... With Ripken in town, it should be noted that no Angels player ever appeared in more than 648 consecutive games. That record belongs to Sandy Alomar Sr., who began his streak exactly 31 years ago Tuesday. ... Belle, who has five homers and 20 RBIs, is trying to join Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx and as the only major leaguers with at least nine consecutive seasons of 30 or more home runs and 100 or more RBIs. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard RECAPS Kansas City 8 Oakland 7
Baltimore 4
  | |||||