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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Losing is supposed to hurt. For Jarrod
Washburn, winning hurt even more.
The Anaheim left-hander became the first member of the Angels'
current rotation to win in nearly three weeks by going 5 1/3
apparently effortless innings Monday night in a 4-1 victory over Boston
-- then had to leave the game with a sore shoulder.
|  | | Mo Vaughn's solo homer in the first inning was the first against his former team. It came off Tomo Ohka. |
Following the game, Washburn was placed on the disabled list -- from where he had been activated only hours earlier for Monday
night's start.
"I couldn't be any more disappointed," said Washburn, who said
he pitched in pain from the first pitch on. "I'm more worried than
anything else.
"It's been hurting on-and-off for two months, but it was worse
tonight. It hurt the whole game."
Washburn's spot was given to Ramon Ortiz, who was recalled from
Edmonton and will start Tuesday night against Boston's Pedro
Martinez.
Mo Vaughn's first homer against his former team and Ron Gant's
first two AL homers helped the Angels stop a five-game losing
streak, their longest of the season.
"It's no big thing. It doesn't matter who we're playing,"
Vaughn said. "I've just got to do what I've got to do."
Washburn (7-2) had been sidelined since July 21 with a left
biceps problem and won his fourth straight decision before the
unexpected setback.
"It looked like he started to labor in the third, and by the
sixth he didn't have much on the ball," Anaheim manager Mike
Scioscia said. "Obviously, we're concerned. This young man's arm
is his future."
Mark Petkovsek pitched two shutout innings and Shigatoshi
Hasegawa went 1 2/3 innings for his fourth save in nine
opportunities.
Vaughn connected in the first off Tomo Ohka (0-2), helping stop
Anaheim's longest losing streak of the season at five games. Vaughn
had been 4-for-31 (.129) against Boston, the team he left following
the 1998 season to sign with Anaheim.
Vaughn, in a 5-for-38 slide coming in, added a pair of singles
to finish 3-for-5.
Gant made it 2-0 in the fourth with his first homer since he was
acquired from Philadelphia on July 31, then connected again in the
sixth off Rich Garces for a 3-1 lead.
It was the 11th multihomer game of Gant's career and the second
this season. He homered twice on June 27 against Milwaukee.
"Sure it felt good," Gant said. "But it was just a matter of
getting comfortable, settling in. The couple of hits I got in
Cleveland (in the Angels' previous series) made me feel a little
better about myself. They helped me relax."
Ed Sprague had walked in the fifth, took third on Brian
Daubach's double and scored on Mike Lansing's infield grounder to
make it 2-1.
Washburn, who allowed three hits, lacked his usual hard stuff -- he failed to strike out a batter for the first time in his 14
starts -- but induced the Red Sox to hit mostly weak balls into the
air. His 16 outs included only two infield grounders.
Ohka, recalled from Pawtucket before the game for his second
start of the season, was Boston's lone bright spot.
The 24-year-old Japanese right-hander allowed two runs and six
hits in five innings, but impressed pitching coach Joe Kerrigan
with his effort after a laborious first.
"I'm very pleased," Kerrigan said. "This kid has shown a lot
of improvement, from last spring to this point. He settled down and
threw the ball very well after the first."
Vaughn's homer was followed by infield singles by Tim Salmon and
Garret Anderson. Then Ohko walked Troy Glaus.
"If it hadn't been for that long first inning, he could have
pitched into the seventh or eighth," Kerrigan said.
Matt Walbeck drove in Adam Kennedy from third base on a groundout.
Game notes
Before the game, the Angels optioned RHP Brian Cooper to
Edmonton. After the game, Anaheim sent OF Edgard Clemente outright
to Edmonton and purchased the contract of IF Keith Johnson from the
Triple-A club. ...Angels SS Kevin Stocker left in the top of the
fourth with a tight left hamstring. ... An MRI of disabled Angels
closer Troy Percival's right elbow indicated tendinitis, and he
will begin therapy. ... Angels OF Darin Erstad singled in the
fourth to snap his longest hitless streak of the season at 13
at-bats. ... Gant hit 20 homers with the Phillies, six since the
All-Star break. ... Tim Salmon's first-inning infield single
stretched his hitting streak to 15 games, matching his career best
(1995). ... RHP Ken Hill, in the final season of a $16.05 million,
three-year contract, was released by Anaheim. Hill, 34, was 5-7
with a 6.52 ERA in 16 games this season. ... Bernard Gilkey started
at DH -- the 15th player used this season by Boston in that role -- and went 0-for-3. That stretched his slump to 7-for-41.
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