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"I love to play here," said Pierzynski, who went into the final at-bat 0-for-3 lifetime with a couple of strikeouts against Frieri. Now - fittingly, perhaps - he's a member of the Angels' most heated rival. "You have to turn the page."īut the takeaway will be Pierzynski, who's still reviled by fans who vividly remember that dropped third strike in the 2005 American League Championship Series.
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"It was one that got away," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said, his club now 7-11. Joe Blanton somehow pitched into the seventh inning, despite giving up seven hits in the first three frames, Josh Hamilton notched four hits on a day he was dropped to fifth in the lineup, Mike Trout made a rare misplay to give the Rangers a run in the sixth, the bullpen allowed three runs to tie the game in the seventh and Peter Bourjos was stranded on first base in the bottom of the ninth.
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Pierzynski's solo homer, which sailed just over the tall right-field wall and came on the first pitch with two outs, propelled the Rangers to a 7-6 win, snapping the Angels' three-game winning streak and capping a rather eventful night at Angel Stadium. "If I'm going to get beat," Frieri said, "I'm going to get beat like that - using my best stuff." And when that's the case, he can live with the results. He got beat with his best pitch, the two-seam fastball that has almost singlehandedly made him a Major Leaguer. Pierzynski - a man they still boo loudly around these parts - but the Angels' closer felt little reason to get down on himself. Minutes earlier, he had served up the game-winning homer to Rangers catcher A.J.
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ANAHEIM - Ernesto Frieri held his head high and even offered up the occasional smile late into Monday night.