Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Angels use long balls to top Tribe

ANAHEIM -- Mike Napoli led a four home run attack with a grand slam in the second inning, and Garret Anderson, Casey Kotchman and Vladimir Guerrero added home runs to lead the Angels to a 9-5 victory over the Cleveland Indians before 36,168 Wednesday at Angel Stadium.

Starter Dustin Moseley (1-1) brought a shutout into the sixth inning, but gave up all four of his runs in his final inning. Moseley scattered nine hits and gave up home runs to Jhonny Peralta and Kelly Shoppach in the sixth. The Angels (6-4) took two out of three games from the Indians (4-5) and tagged starter and former Angels pitcher Paul Byrd (0-2) for six runs and five hits, including three home runs, in three innings.

Darren Oliver, Scot Shields and Justin Speier combined to close out the game for the Angels. The bullpen combined to allow one run in the final three innings, with Speier, who blew a save Tuesday night, throwing a scoreless ninth to close out the game.

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