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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Getting five early runs to work with made
a different pitcher out of Brad Radke.
Matt Lawton, Ron Coomer and Jay Canizaro each homered and had
two RBI as the Minnesota Twins defeated the Anaheim Angels 10-6
Monday, helping Radke win for only the second time in seven starts.
|  | | Brad Radke, who won for only the second time in seven outings, went six innings for the Twins. |
"It's a pitcher's dream to get runs like that," said the
right-hander, who came in tied with teammate Joe Mays for most
losses in the AL. "When you get a lot of runs, you don't want to
get out there and walk guys. So I just wanted to stay within
myself. I didn't feel great out there, and I kind of battled."
Radke (5-9) allowed two runs and six hits in six innings. He
struck out two and walked two as the Twins salvaged a split of the
four-game series.
Jarrod Washburn (3-2), who gave up only three earned runs in 22
1/3 innings of his previous three outings, allowed eight runs and
eight hits in 3 1/3 innings -- his shortest outing in 30 major
league starts.
"That little roll I was on stopped," Washburn said. "It was
pretty ugly out there. I thought I had pretty good stuff coming out
of the bullpen and I was looking forward to the game. But this was
one of those days when they had my number."
One of the runs off the left-hander was unearned because of a
throwing error by Scott Spiezio, who started his third straight
game at third base because of Troy Glaus' back spasms.
Radke was bailed out of a bases-loaded jam in the first by
shortstop Cristian Guzman, who made a diving stop of Bengie
Molina's grounder in the hole to rob him of a two-run single and
end the inning.
"Guzman made a great play," Radke said. "If he doesn't make
that play, it could have been a different story."
Minnesota scored its first five runs in the second on Denny
Hocking's two-run single, RBI singles by Chad Moeller and Canizaro,
and Guzman's sacrifice fly.
"The momentum obviously shifted after we couldn't get any early
runs and they put up that big inning," Angels manager Mike
Scioscia said. "We knew we could get back into the ballgame and
get close. But those guys tacked on a few runs after that, which
hurt."
The Twins increased their lead to 7-0 in the third when Lawton
led off with his fourth homer and Coomer followed with his 10th,
one of his three hits Monday.
Washburn left after Moeller started the fourth with a single and
stole second as Jason Maxwell struck out. Canizaro reached on
Spiezio's error, and reliever Lou Pote surrendered two-out RBI
singles to Lawton and Coomer for a 9-1 lead.
Canizaro greeted Angels reliever Derrick Turnbow with a leadoff
homer in the sixth to make it 10-2. It was the 61st homer this
season by the Twins, fewest in the majors.
Orlando Palmeiro tripled in the third inning and scored
Anaheim's first run on Mo Vaughn's groundout. In the fifth, Darin
Erstad singled and came all the way around on Palmeiro's double.
The Angels scored four runs in the eighth against Hector
Carrasco, who has surrendered 15 earned runs in 12 innings over his
last 10 appearances. Garret Anderson led off with his 21st homer,
matching his career high. Spiezio hit an RBI triple, and Adam
Kennedy and Edgar Clemente added run-scoring singles.
"Right now, the whole league is looking for his fastball,
because that's his reputation. So he's got to get his breaking
stuff over the plate and then throw the fastball," Twins manager
Tom Kelly said of Carrasco.
"He's been missing with his breaking stuff, and he did again
today. So they sit on the fastball and he has a hard time. But he's
not going to get it straightened out sitting in the bullpen."
Game
notes
Coomer's three-hit game was his team-high eighth this
season. ... It was the fourth time Minnesota hit back-to-back
homers. ... Moeller, 3-for-4 with a walk, had his first career
multihit game. ... Right fielder Midre Cummings could have held
Palmeiro's triple to a single, but instead chose to dive for a ball
he had no chance of catching with his team ahead 7-0. ... Kennedy
leads AL rookies with 83 hits, 36 RBI, 11 stolen bases and 72
games played. ... The Twins, who entered the AL with the Angels in
the 1961 expansion, are 279-293 against them. ... Washburn threw 37
pitches during Minnesota's five-run second inning. When the Twins
scored five runs in the sixth on Sunday night, Brian Cooper and Al
Levine combined to make 39 pitches. ... Coomer has made only two
errors at first base in 514 total chances.
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