SB Nation Los Angeles - Angels Can't Hold Lead, Drop One To Rays In Extra Inningshttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/48949/la-fave.png2010-09-18T19:51:00-07:00http://losangeles.sbnation.com/rss/stream/14602882010-09-18T19:51:00-07:002010-09-18T19:51:00-07:00Angels Give Up Runs In 9th & 10th Innings, Lose To Rays, 4-3
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<p>St. Petersburg, FL (Sports Network) – Jason Bartlett scored the game-winning run in the 10th inning on Brandon Wood’s throwing error on a ball hit by Willy Aybar, as the Rays came back to edge the Angels, 4-3, in the middle installment of a three-game series.</p>
<p>Tampa Bay trailed 3-2 in the ninth and was down to its final out before recording three consecutive singles off Fernando Rodney, the last a base hit by Carlos Pena to score pinch-runner Desmond Jennings.</p>
<p>Rafael Soriano (3-2) hurled a 1-2-3 top of the 10th, and Reid Brignac doubled to open the bottom half off Bobby Cassevah (0-2). After a pair of unproductive outs and two walks, Aybar worked a full count as a pinch-hitter and hit a ball that Wood fielded at short and threw away.</p>
<p>Bartlett, serving as a pinch-runner for Brignac, scored the game-winner and kept the AL wild card-leading Rays, who have alternated wins and losses for the past week, a half-game behind the East Division front-running Yankees.</p>
https://losangeles.sbnation.com/2010/9/18/1697143/rays-4-angels-3-reid-brignac-brandon-wood-fernando-rodney-blown-saveEric Stephen2010-09-18T15:44:57-07:002010-09-18T15:44:57-07:00Tonight's Angels-Rays Lineups: Abreu Sits
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<p>Here are tonight’s lineups:</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://twitter.com/LAANGELSINSIDER/statuses/24884115284" target="new">Angels</a></strong><br>
Willits LF<br>
Frandsen 3B<br>
Hunter DH<br>
Napoli 1B<br>
Kendrick 2B<br>
Rivera RF<br>
Wood SS<br>
Mathis C<br>
Bourjos CF<br>
Pineiro P</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/rays/content/starters-rays-vs-angels-1?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" target="new">Rays</a></strong><br>
Jaso C<br>
Zobrist 2B<br>
Crawford LF<br>
Longoria 3B<br>
Johnson DH<br>
Joyce RF<br>
Pena 1B<br>
Upton CF<br>
Brignac SS<br>
Price P</p>
https://losangeles.sbnation.com/2010/9/18/1696872/angels-rays-lineups-bobby-abreuEric Stephen2010-09-18T08:30:26-07:002010-09-18T08:30:26-07:00Pineiro Returns To Mound For Angels Against Price, Rays
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<p>(Sports Network) - <span>David Price</span> hopes to follow up a terrific effort his last time out when the <a href="https://www.draysbay.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Tampa Bay Rays</a> continue their three-game series against the <a href="https://www.halosheaven.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Los Angeles Angels</a> of Anaheim at Tropicana Field.</p>
<p>Price, who is 17-6 on the year with a 2.75 earned run average, scattered three hits over eight scoreless innings against the <a href="https://www.pinstripealley.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">New York Yankees</a> on Monday, but did not factor in the decision of his team's extra-inning win, as his counterpart <span>CC Sabathia</span> also did not allow a run in eight innings.</p>
<p>"That was a good game," said Price, who has won five of his last six decisions. "It was kind of what everybody was expecting, and that's what they got. So it was a good game."</p>
<p>Price beat the <a href="https://www.halosheaven.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Angels</a> the last time he faced them and is 1-1 in three starts against them with a 4.32 ERA.</p>
<p>Los Angeles got to play spoiler in the opener of this set on Friday, as <span>Brandon Wood</span> hit a go-ahead leadoff homer in the ninth inning to give the Angels a 4-3 win.</p>
<p>Wood's blast to left-center off <span>Dan Wheeler</span> (2-4) was his first since June 27 and gave Los Angeles its sixth win over the last eight games.</p>
<p>"He hasn't been getting consistent at-bats," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said of the 25-year-old Wood, who was hitless in 11 at-bats in September coming in. "He's been working hard on the side."</p>
<p><span>Bobby Abreu</span> went 3-for-5 with a run scored and an RBI for the victors.</p>
<p><span>Fernando Rodney</span> notched his 11th save of the season after getting <span>Ben Zobrist</span> on a game-ending groundout to third with runners on first and second.</p>
<p>Tampa Bay came in a half-game ahead of the <a href="https://www.pinstripealley.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Yankees</a> in the AL East race, but swapped places after New York edged Baltimore on Friday.</p>
<p><span>Dan Johnson</span> hit a solo homer in defeat but was struck out looking by <span>Michael Kohn</span> (1-0) to leave the bases loaded in the eighth.</p>
<p>Angels starter <span>Dan Haren</span> fanned 10 and gave up three runs on three hits and three walks in seven innings.</p>
<p>His counterpart, <span>Wade Davis</span>, also received a no-decision after allowing three runs -- two earned -- on seven hits over six frames. The rookie also struck out eight and remained unbeaten over 11 starts.</p>
<p>Heading to the hill for the Angels tonight will be right-hander <span>Joel Pineiro</span>, who hasn't pitched since straining his left oblique warming up before a start back on July 28. He tossed five hitless frames in a six-inning Class A rehab start earlier in the week and declared himself ready to return.</p>
<p>Pineiro, though, has been a huge disappointment for the Angels this season and is just 10-7 with a 4.18 ERA.</p>
<p>He is 2-4 lifetime against the <a href="https://www.draysbay.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Rays</a> with a 5.10 ERA in 11 games, 10 of which have been starts. He did get a no-decision against them earlier in the year, despite tossing 6 1/3 scoreless frames.</p>
<p>Tampa has won four of its seven meetings with the Angels this season.</p>
https://losangeles.sbnation.com/2010/9/18/2321193/pineiro-returns-to-mound-for-angels-against-price-raysEric Stephen