The Los Angeles Angels were down to their emergency closer and Justin Speier couldn’t get the job done as the Angels lost to the Indians 4-2. The Angels were ahead 4-2 going into the 9th inning, but Travis Hafner hit a two run homerun with two outs in the inning to give the Indians the victory.
Having Francisco Rodriguez out for a while is definately going to hurt the Angels. He has the mentality that he is going to go out there and close the door against opposing teams, and I think some teams are actually scared to face him. Speier just doesn’t have that at this point.
The only runs the Angels get muster off of Westbrook was a sac fly by Gary Matthews Jr. and a two run homerun by Vladimir Guerrero. Both hits came in the 6th inning.
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