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Wednesday, Apr. 26 10:05pm ET
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Scott Schoeneweis isn't one of those players who keeps a scrapbook of his good days in the major leagues. Somebody should start one for him, because there appear to be many of them ahead. "I don't read the sports section. I never did," the Anaheim Angels left-hander said Wednesday night after improving his record to 4-0 with a 6-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers. "I play a sport, so I read the money section, the front page, and I do the crosswords. I don't really pay attention to all that other stuff," he said. Schoeneweis, converted back into a starter this spring after making his first 31 big league appearances in relief last year, allowed five hits in eight innings. He dealt the Tigers their ninth loss in 10 games, limiting them to a pair of harmless singles through the first 5 1-3 innings before Deivi Cruz trimmed Anaheim's lead to 3-1 with a solo homer. "He was intelligent enough to throw his pitches out of the zone and get us to swing at them," Detroit manager Phil Garner said. "He kept his sinker down, and we didn't do anything to make him bring it up. We just kept swinging at it." With two outs in the sixth, Schoeneweis walked Bobby Higginson and gave up a single to Juan Encarnacion. Right fielder Tim Salmon then went to the warning track to catch a drive by Juan Gonzalez to end the inning. "We had no offense at all," Garner said after his team lost by at least five runs for the seventh time in eight games. "It's unbelievable. It's very, very frustrating. We hit a couple of balls decent, but we put nothing together. What we have to work on is our approach. A couple of innings we made three outs on five or six pitches." C.J. Nitkowski (1-4) gave up four runs and seven hits in six-plus innings, including consecutive home runs by Garret Anderson and Troy Glaus in the second. Salmon singled to start the inning, Anderson followed with his third home run and Glaus hit his sixth. Anderson, who hit .303 last season, entered the game with a .247 average and was inserted into the DH spot by first-year manager Mike Scioscia, who wanted to give his center fielder some rest and still keep his bat in the lineup. "It's the manager's decision," Anderson said. "With all that he's got on his mind to think about, he doesn't need me barking at him. I don't think I'm pressing. Everyone goes through this at the beginning of the season, but you all know how it ends." Edgard Clemente chased Nitkowski with a leadoff double in the seventh, his first extra-base hit in the American League. Clemente, who had three hits, later scored when Danny Patterson gave up Gary DiSarcina's ground single to right through a drawn-in infield. Mo Vaughn, who struck out his previous three times up, made it 6-1 with his fifth homer. It came against Jim Poole, who also gave up a single by Adam Kennedy leading off the eighth. Game notesTony Clark, who led the Tigers in homers, RBI and batting average just two seasons ago, is hitting .121 with two homers and four RBI. He has only three hits in his last 44 at-bats, none in his past 14, and was removed for a pinch-hitter in the eighth. ... Tim Belcher, who has made three rehab starts since undergoing surgery on his right elbow in December, will get either two or three more starts before rejoining the Angels' rotation. The right-hander's pitch count will be extended to 90 on Sunday, when he pitches for Triple-A Edmonton. "He has to get to that 100-pitch level to be as competitive as he had to be at this level, but I don't anticipate it being that much longer," said manager Mike Scioscia, who was Belcher's catcher for four full seasons with the Dodgers. ... The Tigers haven't won a series in Anaheim since 1994. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard Detroit Clubhouse Anaheim Clubhouse RECAPS NY Yankees 2 Minnesota 0
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