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CLEVELAND (AP) –Scott Schoeneweis had to take a step in the
wrong direction to get things right for the Anaheim Angels on
Tuesday night.
|  | | Anaheim's David Eckstein is safe at home when the throw gets the best of Einar Diaz. |
Schoeneweis (2-1) overcame a balk in the midst of allowing eight
hits over his first 2 2/3 innings, then settled down as the Angels
beat Cleveland 7-2 to stop the Indians' six-game winning streak.
"I was upset with that call, and it made me determined to
regroup," said Schoeneweis, assessed the balk in the third when he
failed to step toward first on a pickoff attempt of Kenny Lofton.
"When they scored a run that inning after having nobody on with
two outs, I made a conscious effort that was all they were going to
get."
It worked. The left-hander pitched 4 2/3 hitless innings until Ellis Burks and Wil Cordero got two-out singles in the eighth. By
then, Anaheim led 6-2.
Wally Joyner, hitting .154, had a two-run homer in the fourth to
give Anaheim a 4-2 lead.
Anaheim, which stopped a four-game losing streak, took a 2-0
lead in the first – scoring multiple runs for the first time in 57
innings.
David Eckstein was hit by the fourth pitch of the night from
Bartolo Colon (2-2) and scored from first when Darin Erstad doubled
over Lofton in center.
"I was playing shallow and the ball just carried," Lofton
said.
Two outs later, Troy Glaus singled home Erstad.
Juan Gonzalez's RBI double cut the deficit in the bottom half
and Burks tied it with a run-scoring double in the second.
Lofton, who had reached on a bunt single then went to second on
Schoeneweis' balk, was doubled up at second on a line-out to
center and Marty Cordova left the bases loaded with an
inning-ending grounder.
"They said Scott didn't step towards first," Angels manager
Mike Scioscia said. "He did a great job after that, didn't get
upset."
Indians manager Charlie Manuel lamented his team's misplays.
"Kenny's baserunning was a mistake," Manuel said. "We had
eight hits and only two runs. It wasn't a very well-played game."
Glaus opened the fourth with a double and scored on Joyner's
second homer of the season.
Anaheim scored twice in the eighth as Paul Shuey made two errors
on a sacrifice bunt by Ben Molina. With runners on first and
second, Shuey bobbled the bunt, then threw wildly, allowing Scott
Spiezio to score from second, Joyner to go from first to third and
Molina to second.
Joyner scored on a groundout by David Eckstein to make it 6-2.
Garrett Anderson had an RBI single in the ninth.
Game notes
The game helped mark the 100th anniversary of the first
game in AL history, when Cleveland lost in Chicago on April 24,
1901. ... Anaheim, which had lost eight of its previous nine games,
scored first for just the fifth time in 20 games.... Colon allowed
four runs and six hits in 6 1/3 innings. ... LHP Rich Rodriguez,
wearing No. 44, made his Indians debut, retiring the only batter he
faced in the seventh. ... The bottom four spots in the Cleveland
lineup went a combined 1-for-14, with Cordova hitting a
second-inning single. ... Schoeneweis is 1-3 with a 5.64 ERA in his
career against Cleveland.
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Boston 9
Minnesota 4
Anaheim 7
Cleveland 2
Baltimore 8
Detroit 3
Seattle 7
NY Yankees 5
Toronto 7
Texas 5
Tampa Bay 4
Kansas City 2
Oakland 6
Chi. White Sox 4
Houston 11
Atlanta 6
Milwaukee 6
NY Mets 4
St. Louis 7
Montreal 2
Colorado 14
Chicago Cubs 1
Arizona 9
Florida 8
Philadelphia 12
San Diego 7
Pittsburgh 5
Los Angeles 1
Cincinnati 9
San Francisco 5
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