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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Rundown
Finley "clicking"
Probably just those old bones creaking:
About an hour after Angels manager Mike Scioscia told Steve Finley he would be benched for the immediate future, Finley found something in his swing.
"It just clicked," he said.
If Finley found something, he immediately lost it. Perhaps the memory is the next thing to go...
Saunders gets the call
As Chronicles can tell you, it was a no-brainer that the Angels would take at least two of three from the lowly Mariners (this debacle not withstanding). Now we're in the less than enviable position of throwing a rookie - with all of one game's experience - out there to try and salvage something from a lost series.
Blind loyalty
Mike Scioscia attempts to explain why he refused to lift Darin Erstad for a pinch hitter with the game on the line:
All year long, Manager Mike Scioscia has preached the need for offensive continuity, for some kind of attack consistent enough to support the team's superb starting pitching, but it's mid-September, the Angels are still searching, and there are few signs they're even getting warm.
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"Guys aren't going to do it all the time," Scioscia said, "but I'll take my chances with Ersty any day."
You want continuity Mike? Well, you got it: over the past month the Angels have only scored over five runs six times, three of those coming in this past series against the White Sox. We've scored one run or less eight times. Consistently awful.
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