Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Athletics 2, Angels 1
By BETH HARRIS
AP Sports Writer
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Jermaine Dye and Terrence Long homered as Tim Hudson and the Oakland Athletics won for the 23rd time in 24 games, beating the Anaheim Angels 2-1 Monday night.
Garret Anderson homered for the Angels, who had their 10-game winning streak snapped — one shy of the club record set in 1964.
The Athletics increased their lead to three games over the Angels in the AL West, while Anaheim remained four games ahead of Seattle in the wild-card race.
The game pitted two streaking pitchers from staffs with the two best ERAs in the AL.
Hudson (13-9) retired the first 10 Angels en route to winning his sixth consecutive decision. He allowed one run on six hits in 7 1-3 innings, struck out four and walked none.
Billy Koch got three straight outs for his 39th save in 45 chances.
Kevin Appier (14-10) gave up two runs on five hits in 6 2-3 innings. He struck out five and walked three to lose for the first time in seven starts since Aug. 2.
Dye gave the A's a 1-0 lead with his two-out homer over the center-field wall in the fourth. Long's shot to right field in the fifth made it 2-0.
Anderson's leadoff homer to right in the fifth cut it to 2-1.
Appier pitched out of a bases-loaded, none-out jam in the sixth. He gave up consecutive walks to Scott Hatteberg and Miguel Tejada, then Eric Chavez singled to load the bases.
Appier struck out Dye and David Justice, and Mark Ellis flied out to to end the threat. Fans gave Appier a standing ovation as he walked to the dugout.
The Angels stranded the tying run at third in the sixth as first baseman Hatteberg robbed Scott Spiezio of an RBI hit with a diving stop of his grounder down the line.
Oakland's defense turned its second double play of the game in the seventh, after Anderson led off with a single. Tejada got it started at shortstop with a nifty backhand flip to second baseman Ellis, who threw out Brad Fullmer at first.
Troy Glaus struck out to end the inning.
Notes: Anaheim SS David Eckstein went 0-for-3, ending his career-high 15-game hitting streak. ... The Angels fell to 26-17 in one-run games. ... Oakland took an 8-5 lead in the season series and improved to 14-9 at Edison Field. Seven of its next 10 games are against the Angels. ... The A's improved to 45-27 on the road, which leads the majors. ... The Angels are 7-1 in September, surpassing their victory total from last September and October, when they went a combined 6-21.
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