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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Scott Spiezio was pretty sure his last
swing of the game ended it.
"I was hoping it would get over the wall," he said. "If it'd
have hit the wall, I would've been thrown out at first."
Spiezio followed Troy Glaus' game-tying ninth-inning homer with
one of his own Sunday as the Anaheim Angels rallied past the Texas
Rangers 7-6.
|  | | Mo Vaughn had a pair of two-run homers for the Angels, but Scott Spiezio's walk-off shot was more talked about. |
"That's the first time I've done that in the majors, a walkoff
home run," Spiezio said. "It's a great feeling. I got pummeled at
home plate, and I'll have to get a neck readjustment. But I'd love
to do that every night."
Mo Vaughn hit a pair of two-run homers for Anaheim, and Garret
Anderson also connected.
After starter Jason Dickson was chased with one out in the
second, four relievers combined to hold Texas to two hits in the
final 7 2/3 innings.
Al Levine (3 2/3 innings), Eric Weaver and Mark Petkovsek (one
inning each) pitched hitless ball.
Shigetoshi Hasegawa (2-0) allowed a pair of hits in two innings,
including a ninth-inning homer by Ivan Rodriguez that put Texas
ahead 6-5. Rodriguez's first-pitch drive made him 3-for-3 with two
home runs as a pinch-hitter this season.
Rangers manager Johnny Oates left in Francisco Cordero (1-1),
who had thrown 1 1/3 innings, choosing to rest John Wetteland, who
got saves Friday and Saturday.
Glaus tied the game with his 10th homer of the season, and
Spiezio followed with a lined shot barely over the right-field wall
for his fifth, ending an 0-for-11 slide.
"I'm just trying to even out my mail," Oates joked. "It's
been running overwhelmingly against bringing John in, and I want to
even it out with people ripping me for not bringing him in."
Cordero had not allowed a home run this season in 19 1/3 innings
coming in.
Vaughn's third multihomer game this season, the 27th of his
career, raised his season totals to 13 homers and 35 RBI.
Texas batted around in the first inning against Dickson, making
his first start since straining a hip flexor April 28, and took a
4-0 lead. Mike Lamb singled for two runs and Bill Haselman added an
RBI single.
After Vaughn's first homer cut the Rangers' lead in half in the
bottom half, Rafael Palmeiro's RBI double in the Texas second made
it 5-2.
Darin Erstad doubled and Vaughn homered again in the third.
Anderson's leadoff homer in the fourth tied it at 5.
Rangers starter Esteban Loaiza retiring his next 11 batters.
Loaiza allowed five runs and six hits in 6 2/3 innings.
Game notes
The first 10,000 women entering for the Mother's Day game
received roses, courtesy of a local floral company. ... The Angels
have 39 homers in their last 20 games. ... The teams hit 22 homers
in the four-game series, 13 by the Angels. ... Texas pinch-hitters
are 7-for-10 with RBI.
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