It was thus that the angels were witnesses of this type of collapse is almost forgotten what a pain bullpen was terrible in April, when it exploded six of seven opportunities to salvage a 6.14 start.
These painful memories flooding back Friday night at Yankee Stadium, where the veteran lefty Scott Downs, nearly perfect for 31/2 months, had its worst result in six years, giving up four points in the eighth inning of loss to 5.6 in New York.
Mark Teixeira broke his second homer, three runs off Downs shot that tied the score at 5, and Russell Martin has closed the event with a simple tug against Kevin Jepsen, as the Angels opened the game after that- All Star break with his most harrowing defeat of the season and lost 16 in his last 21 games in the Bronx.
"You do not have a choice - you have to put this behind you," said pitcher CJ Wilson, seven innings, two runs, five unstoppable effort was in vain. "In the second half, should have a big windshield and keep looking forward. Can not have a rearview mirror. Can not see what just happened."
Downs has allowed a run in 30 innings in 32 clean games for a microscopic effectiveness of 0.30, making skilful team with Ernesto Frieri (0.00 effective in 261/3 entries) to give the Angels a 1-2 tremendous relief once .
However, some misplaced shots he blew his second in 29 games for the rescue team and worst outing Downs "because he allowed six runs in Baltimore August 18, 2006. Downs left with an efficiency of 1.47 and a case of amnesia.
"It's already behind me," Downs said in a nearly empty club, long after the game. "He was behind me until you came to me about it."
Los Angeles built a 5-2 advantage in the strength of the brand Trumbo prodigious home run three races left in the bullpen in the seventh and the central entrance and doubles by Mike Trout and Albert Pujols in the eighth.
Trumbo shot that erased a 2-1 disadvantage and was estimated at 435 feet, were his 23 homers on the season and gave him five consecutive games against the Yankees. He scored 15, while one of his homers tied a game or gave the Angels a lead.
However, Downs got into trouble in the eighth episode, when Derek Jeter opened with a double and went to Curtis Granderson. Teixeira, who connected Wilson's homer in two runs in the third, pulling in a curve that hangs over the left field wall with a 5-5 tie.
Downs retired Alex Rodriguez and Robinson Canyon Dominicano, Nick Swisher, but walked. With pitching Jepsen, the runner-up Dewayne Wise stole second. Raul Ibanez received ticket intentional, and Martin, who entered with an average of 179, broke a single producer who broke the bat single to right garden for a 6-5 advantage.
Downs and stops as Frieri were: "I do not machines, there will be games, when the fight," manager Mike Scioscia said. "From that first month, they were as good as anyone with a cable. This ran off."
Trumbo said the loss would be "difficult to digest," but still has confidence in the bullpen. "This was one of those anomalies that do not meet again for a long time," he said.
The Dominicano Erick Aybar hit a solo homer in the third, and trout, in his first game at Yankee Stadium, had two hits and two stolen bases to raise his average to 0.344 leading the American League.
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