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Angels put up a stinker in ALCS opener

By Jim Caple
ESPN.com

Friday, October 16, 2009

NEW YORK -- Games like the one played on Friday night happen in baseball. Of course, they usually happen to the Pirates or the Royals, not a team playing for the American League pennant. Fresh off sweeping the Red Sox in the Division Series, the Angels opened the ALCS as if they were fresh off a long winter of golf and scuba diving. Los Angeles had nearly as many errors (three) as hits (four), walked five batters, hit another, threw a wild pitch and trailed almost the entire nine innings of a 4 ...

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