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Wednesday, Apr. 19 7:05pm ET
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TORONTO (AP) -- David Wells won one for "Clutch." Wells struck out 10 in his second complete game of the season as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Anaheim Angels 12-4 Wednesday night.
Wells' friend was called Clutch, but the pitcher would not reveal his full name. "I just talked to him the other day, and he gets hit by a truck. I was dying out there trying to go the distance, and I was going to do everything in my power to do it," he said. Wells gave up eight hits in his 38th career complete game. Wells met Clutch about four years ago at a Jimmy Page and Robert Plant concert. Clutch was Plant's personal assistant. "He took care of some pretty big names," Wells said. "We just hit it off ever since that concert. It's a tragic loss. It's always the good ones that go." Jose Cruz Jr. led off first with a homer, and Raul Mondesi and Carlos Delgado each had RBI singles as Toronto took a 3-0 lead. Brad Fullmer's three-run homer in the third made it 6-0. Tony Batista followed with his seventh home run to make it 7-0. Consecutive run-scoring singles by Fullmer and Batista made it 10-0 in the fifth. Anaheim starter Ken Hill (1-3) gave up 10 runs on 11 hits in just 3 1/3 innings. "I wasn't locating my pitches," Hill said. The Angels scored on Edgard Clemente's RBI single in the sixth and Darin Erstad's three-run homer in the ninth off a tiring Wells.
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