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K-Rod gets beat, but Angels still believe

By Eric Neel
ESPN.com

Saturday, October 4, 2008

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Sixty-two times, he had enough. Sixty-two times, Francisco Rodriguez, the all-time major league single-season record holder for saves, turned the opposition away when it mattered most. Friday night just wasn't another one of those times. On Friday night, with his Los Angeles Angels locked in a 5-5 tie with the Boston Red Sox in the top of the ninth inning, the indomitable K-Rod got beat. He left a changeup high in the zone to J.D. Drew and paid the price. With pinch ...

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