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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) _ Scott Erickson won for the first time
since elbow surgery, and Albert Belle and Mike Bordick homered as
the Baltimore Orioles beat the Anaheim Angels 4-3 Tuesday night to
stop a seven-game losing streak.
Erickson (1-1) allowed three runs and nine hits in seven innings
in his third start since bone chips were removed from his right
elbow on March 3. In his previous two outings, he allowed 12 earned
runs in 8 2-3 innings.
Erickson improved to 16-4 against the Angels, becoming the first
Orioles starter to win in 15 games since Mike Mussina's complete
game against Texas on April 29. Mike Timlin got three outs for his
third save.
Jeff Conine nearly homered in the eighth, but left fielder Darin
Erstad leaped above the fence in left-center to pull it back.
Delino DeShields scored after doubling and crossing to third on
Belle's fly to right, a ball that Tim Salmon stopped from becoming
a home run when he ran it down at the short fence near the foul
pole.
Kent Bottenfield (3-4) gave up four runs and seven hits in 7 1-3
innings.
Conine's sacrifice fly, on reliever Mark Petkovsek's first pitch
of the game, marked the first of 16 inherited runner this season
that Petkovsek has allowed to score.
The Orioles, who opened the scoring in the second inning on
Belle's leadoff homer, tied the score at 3 in the sixth when Brady
Anderson led off with a single and Bordick followed with a drive
into the left-field bullpen for his eighth homer.
Belle opened the scoring with his fifth homer, leading off the
second. But he committed his first fielding error in 34 starts in
right field this season during the Angels' two-run fourth.
After one-out singles by Bengie Molina and Benji Gil, Erstad
lined a single to right. Molina was held at third by coach Ron
Roenicke, but continued home when Belle bobbled the ball. Gil
tagged up and advanced to third on Adam Kennedy's fly to right,
then scored Anaheim's third run on Mo Vaughn's single under the
glove of Conine at first.
Notes: Tuesday marked four years since The Walt Disney Co. became
managing partner of the Angels, following more than 35 years of
ownership by Gene Autry. Since then, their record is 309-339. ...
Cal Ripken Jr. was noncommittal when asked if his current back
problem would have ended his consecutive game playing streak, had
it occurred before he had a chance to break Lou Gehrig's record.
"There are different levels of pain," said Ripken, whose streak
of 2,632 games ended on Sept. 20, 1998. "The reason I stopped
playing then was that I couldn't play. The reason I had surgery
(last September) was that I had to have it, and the reason why I
haven't played the last four days was because I couldn't." ...
With Ripken in town, it should be noted that no Angels player ever
appeared in more than 648 consecutive games. That record belongs to
Sandy Alomar Sr., who began his streak exactly 31 years ago
Tuesday. ... Belle, who has five homers and 20 RBIs, is trying to
join Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx and as the only major leaguers with at
least nine consecutive seasons of 30 or more home runs and 100 or
more RBIs.
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