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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Anaheim Angels rookie Brian Cooper spent the
All-Star break in the minors and didn't mind it a bit.
Because his last start of the first half was July 5, Cooper
would have had 11 days off before his next one. So the Angels
optioned him to Class A Lake Elsinore and he pitched against
Lancaster on the night of the big league All-Star Game.
"I was able to go down there and work on some things that I
wouldn't try working on at the major league level," Cooper said
after beating the San Diego Padres 3-2 Monday night. "It kept me
fresh."
One of the things he worked on was his curveball, which he had
used in only two previous starts.
"It bailed me out tonight," said Cooper (4-3), who held the
Padres to two runs and four hits in 6 1/3 innings, with three
strikeouts and four walks.
Matt Walbeck hit a go-ahead two-run homer for the Angels.
Anaheim's Darin Erstad went 2-for-4 to raise his major
league-leading hit total to 154. After his leadoff single in the
fifth, the last 15 Angels were retired in order.
Cooper walked two consecutive batters with one out in the seventh,
prompting manager Mike Scioscia to go to his bullpen. Mark
Petkovsek and Mike Holtz each retired a batter to end the threat.
Troy Percival, who blew the save in the 6-5, 10-inning
defeat Sunday, pitched the ninth for his 22nd save in 28 opportunities.
Walbeck, the Angels' backup catcher, was impressed with Cooper.
"He didn't have his best stuff," Walbeck said. "But when you
see a young guy like that not having his best stuff get by, make
the pitch when he has too, that just goes to show you he has a big
heart and he wants to be out there."
The Angels cooled off Matt Clement, who had won his last three
starts -- the first Padres pitcher to win three in a row all year -- and four of five. Clement (9-8), who allowed three runs on six hits
in seven innings, matched his season-high with eight strikeouts and
walked one.
In the fourth inning, and Adam Kennedy on first after an infield
single, Walbeck homered to right with two outs, his fourth of the
season, to give the Angels a 3-1 lead.
"One bad pitch," Clement said. "The home run I gave up to
Walbeck cost us the game. I haven't seen the replay and I don't
think I want to."
San Diego closed to one run in the sixth when Ryan Klesko
doubled into the Angels bullpen in the right-field corner and
scored on Phil Nevin's single.
Each team scored a run in the first inning. Erstad hit a leadoff
double and scored on Mo Vaughn's one-out double. San Diego's Al
Martin tripled with one out and scored on Klesko's single.
Game notes
Klesko's bat went flying into the field-level stands in the
eighth inning and struck a woman in the face. Padres trainer Todd
Hutcheson tended to the woman, who left under her own power. ... In
a trade of minor-leaguers, the Padres reacquired third baseman Gabe Alvarez
from Detroit for ultility player Dusty Allen. Alvarez, who was optioned to
Triple-A Las Vegas, was taken by the Padres in the second round of
the 1995 draft, but they lost him to Arizona in the expansion draft
in November 1997. He was traded to the Tigers the same day. ... Center fielder Ruben Rivera sat out Monday night after striking out 22 times in
his last 11 games, fanning at least once in each of the 11 games.
He was replaced by rookie Kory DeHaan, who made his first start in
center and his 10th overall in the outfield. ... Right-handed pitchers Carlton
Loewer and Brian Boehringer will both have season-ending
arthroscopic surgery on their pitching shoulders Tuesday, to be
performed by team doctors Lewis Yocum of the Angels and Jan Fronek
of the Padres at Centinela Hospital in Los Angeles.
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