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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The Angels-Padres series was not a good one for
closers.
Troy Glaus tripled with two outs in the 11th and scored on
Trevor Hoffman's wild pitch as Anaheim beat San Diego 3-2 Tuesday.
The game needed extra innings because Anaheim closer Troy Percival
blew his second save in three days, allowing Ruben Rivera's tying
inside-the-park home run when the Padres were down to their last
strike.
"I feel for Hoffy," Percival said. "Some funky things
happened to both of us today. That's part of the game."
In Sunday's opener, won by the Padres 6-5 in 10 innings, both
Percival and Hoffman blew saves. Percival did save Monday night's
3-2 win, but was baffled because he thought he threw a good pitch
to Rivera.
"I don't know if it's bad luck or bad karma for me," Percival
said. "I need to go out and do some kind of ritualistic dance or
burn my uniform, I don't know. I don't ever remember getting beat
with that kind of stuff."
Hoffman (2-4) started the 10th and retired five straight batters
before Glaus' hit to right. Eric Owens broke back on the ball, then
had to come in and the ball took an odd hop, allowing Glaus to take
third. He then scored when Hoffman's curveball to Bengie Molina hit
the plate and bounced away.
"When you have things going your way, those things don't
happen," Hoffman said. "These things only happen when you're
going bad. I'm trying to get out of this rut as best I can."
In his last 11 games dating to June 23, Hoffman, San Diego's
only All-Star, has blown three saves, lost two games and posted a
7.62 ERA, allowing 11 earned runs and 19 hits in 13 innings.
Percival struck out the first two Padres batters in the ninth
and was one strike away from his 23rd save when Rivera, who struck
out 22 times in his previous 11 games, lifted an 0-2 pitch to right
field. The ball bounced off the padding near the top of the fence
and Orlando Palmeiro tried to make a leaping catch, crashing into
the fence and falling. Center fielder Garret Anderson didn't back
up the play and the ball caromed several feet toward the infield.
"I thought I was going to get to it," Palmeiro said. When he
didn't, he at least thought he could make a play. "I looked at the
ball and said, `We got this guy."'
Rivera was rounding third as Palmeiro was throwing the ball to
shortstop Benji Gil, and Rivera beat Gil's throw home for his 11th
homer of the year.
"When I came to third base and I saw (Tim) Flannery waving me
in, I wasn't sure I was going to make it," Rivera said.
It was the 13th inside-the-park homer in Padres history, and the
first since Tony Gwynn had an inside-the-park grand slam at Dodger
Stadium on June 26, 1997.
It was Percival's seventh blown save of the year.
The win went to Al Levine (2-2), who took the loss Sunday when
he dropped Owens' bases-loaded bunt with two outs in the 10th.
Major league hits leader Darin Erstad had a solo homer with two
outs in the fifth inning to give the Angels a 2-1 lead. It was his
19th, tying his career-high, and came on a 90 mph fastball from
rookie Brian Tollberg.
Erstad has 155 hits and is on pace for 267, which would break
George Sisler's record of 257 set in 1920. Erstad had six hits in
the series as the Angels won two of three, and has gone 24-for-52
(.462) with 11 RBIs in the last 11 games.
The teams traded solo homers for the game's first two runs. San
Diego's Al Martin hit a towering shot off Ken Hill with two outs in
the third, his 11th, and Anderson hit a leadoff homer in the
fourth, also off Tollberg, his 27th.
Tollberg had his fourth straight no-decision following victories
in his first two big league starts. He gave up two runs and four
hits in seven innings, struck out five and walked one. Hill allowed
one run on four hits in six innings and struck out eight for the
second straight start.
Game notes
Padres RHPs Brian Boehringer and Carlton Loewer underwent
season-ending operations on their pitching shoulders Tuesday
morning. Doctors Lewis Yocum of the Anaheim Angels and Jan Fronek
of the Padres operated. Doctors cleaned and smoothed Boehringer's
labrum, biceps tendon and rotator cuff. Boehringer had surgery on
his rotator cuff in August 1999. Doctors repaired a partial tear in
Loewer's rotator cuff. ... Angels OF Tim Salmon had an injection to
treat his inflamed left shoulder.
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