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Ervin Santana is 4th Angels Starter to Beat Dodgers

Final Score in Los Angeles of Anaheim: Angels 6, Dodgers 3

Ervin Santana struck out 6 in 7 innings as he became the 4th Angels starting pitcher this season to beat the Dodgers. Only Joe Saunders missed out on facing the blue boys and will not be the SP over the next two nights. Bobby Abreu blasted a 3-Run HR in the 6th and Kevin Frandsen hit a 2-Run Double in the 7th for some late scoring that made a loser out of Clayton Kershaw.

The Abreu blast was the big blow but Howie Kendrick broke the tie with a single in the next inning. While Frandsen's insurance was nice, what was best about that inning was that the 2nd out of it was Juan Rivera getting picked off of 3B - but that downer of a situation was mitigated by four straight Angels hits: Jeff Mathis, a Brandon Wood single to right, the Howie base hit and the Franny mash down the line.

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Angels are 4-0 against the Dodgers and remain 3.5 games behind the bankrupt Texas Cakewalkers.

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Poll
Panther of the Game
Ervin Santana
63 votes
Bobby Abreu
212 votes

275 votes | Poll has closed

0 recs  |  28 comments

Comments

POTG

blogTalkRadio

Brandon Wood for POTG
I'll second that.

Part of two huge rallies that he’d normally have stomped and spit on.

definitely

The biggest thing is that he actually got an extra base hit.

Wood's hit was a single

He later went 1st to third on Howie’s hit.

I want to vote Woody as player of the game. On base and scored twice, if he makes an out in the 7th that 4 run rally never exists. And his great stop and glove flip to start a DP prevented a bullpen meltdown. When that ball left the bat I was sure it was going to be a hit. Just a great play. He looked like Ozzie Smith for one play, after looking like Rafael Ramirez the day before.

As long as we're all correcting each other...

It was a three run rally that wouldn’t have existed.

You're right

Dumbass Rivera didn’t wind up scoring. Wonder why.

Right

I got mixed up between Wood and Frandsen for some reason

I agree

but i agree with what is said

I'm so glad

Saundo doesn’t pitch against the Doyers

Mathis is only 44 more games from breaking Dimaggio's hit streak record
what about Howie?
I just wanna say alright for the 2 hour 52 minute game! Big points!
2 frickin minutes cost me mucho points...

:((

Rev has a future in Vegas...

that was a pretty good over-under setting.

What a classic choke job!

Even the French soccer team could beat the Doyers tonight

i would doubt that

i did watch the french do there best English impression today

Dont forget people

7am US vs. Algeria
a must win
ENGLAND thank you for showing up but your going home tomorrow

USA USA USA USA USA

WOOD FOR POTG

i second that

my other team (Mexico effed up!) come on U.S!!!!!

still advanced, we’ll see if Mexico can get their revenge from ’06.

Haven't we learned

Martin is no to be taken lightly when we are on the base paths.

Hard to choose between Santana and Bobby in this game.

I chose Bobby because of the home run.

It's gotta be Bobby

he turned the whole game around with that 3 run homer!

Texas Cakewalkers

That is classic, who do they play after the Pirates and Astros, Brownie Troop 14?

So basically our awseomness went off the charts last night.
Pregame is wrong.

The pre-game pick was “will the game last longer than 2:50”?

According to the official box: http://www.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2010_06_22_lanmlb_anamlb_1
The time of game was 2:52.

Never mind. I had it backwards.

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