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Saturday, Apr. 29 10:05pm ET
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) --Tim Salmon homered leading off the 13th inning to give the Anaheim Angels a 7-6 victory over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on Saturday night. Salmon pulled a full-count pitch from Jeff Sparks (0-1) over the left-field fence for the designated hitter's fifth home run. Al Levine (1-0) pitched three scoreless innings for the victory. After Greg Vaughn hit his 300th home run in the ninth to give Tampa Bay a 6-5 lead, Anaheim tied it in the bottom of the inning on Adam Kennedy's two-out RBI single. Kennedy, who took second on the throw home, tried to score on another single by Mo Vaughn, but was thrown out by right fielder Dave Martinez. Vaughn, in his 12th season in the majors, became the 85th player to reach 300 homers when he lined Shigetoshi Hasegawa's pitch to center for his eighth home run of the season. Tampa Bay tied it at 5 in the eighth. Center fielder Garret Anderson misplayed Mike DiFelice's two-out drive into a double. Pinch-runner Tony Graffanino went to third on Hajsegawa's wild pitch, and scored when Mo Vaughn made a fielding error at first base on Steve Cox's high hopper. Anaheim took a 5-4 lead with a three-run fifth. After Gary DiSarcina's one-out homer off Dave Eiland tied it at 3, Darin Erstad singled, stole second and scored on Kennedy's double to left-center. Mo Vaughn added an RBI single. Anderson hit his fifth homer in the second inning to give Anaheim a 1-0 lead, and Tampa Bay tied it in the fourth on Ozzie Guillen's grounder. Guillen's slow hopper with one out and the bases loaded went under third baseman Troy Glaus' glove for an error. Glaus made a good play two pitches later, gloving Miguel Cairo's smash down the line and stepping on third to begin an inning-ending double play. Orlando Palmeiro's two-out RBI single in the fourth put the Angels back on top 2-1. Jose Canseco gave the Devil Rays a 3-2 lead in the fifth with a two-run homer, his fourth. Vinny Castilla brought the Devil Rays within a run in the sixth with a solo homer. It was only the second homer in 64 at-bats for Castilla, who hit 33 home runs last season for Colorado. He sat out the first seven games of the season because of a rib injury. Eiland, who beat the Angels 1-0 last Sunday in Tampa Bay, allowed eight hits and five runs in 4 1/3 innings. Angels starter Ken Hill allowed nine hits and four runs in 5 2/3 innings. Game notesErstad's fifth-inning single was his 46th hit, one shy of the major league record for April. Dante Bichette had 47 hits for Colorado in April 1998. ... The Angels stole three bases, pushing their season total to 24. ... DiSarcina's homer was only his second in 22 months. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard Tampa Bay Clubhouse Anaheim Clubhouse RECAPS Cleveland 3 Boston 2
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