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  Monday, Aug. 7 10:05pm ET
Washburn still bothered by biceps
 
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Losing is supposed to hurt. For Jarrod Washburn, winning hurt even more.

The Anaheim left-hander became the first member of the Angels' current rotation to win in nearly three weeks by going 5 1/3 apparently effortless innings Monday night in a 4-1 victory over Boston -- then had to leave the game with a sore shoulder.

Mo Vaughn
Mo Vaughn's solo homer in the first inning was the first against his former team. It came off Tomo Ohka.

Following the game, Washburn was placed on the disabled list -- from where he had been activated only hours earlier for Monday night's start.

"I couldn't be any more disappointed," said Washburn, who said he pitched in pain from the first pitch on. "I'm more worried than anything else.

"It's been hurting on-and-off for two months, but it was worse tonight. It hurt the whole game."

Washburn's spot was given to Ramon Ortiz, who was recalled from Edmonton and will start Tuesday night against Boston's Pedro Martinez.

Mo Vaughn's first homer against his former team and Ron Gant's first two AL homers helped the Angels stop a five-game losing streak, their longest of the season.

"It's no big thing. It doesn't matter who we're playing," Vaughn said. "I've just got to do what I've got to do."

Washburn (7-2) had been sidelined since July 21 with a left biceps problem and won his fourth straight decision before the unexpected setback.

"It looked like he started to labor in the third, and by the sixth he didn't have much on the ball," Anaheim manager Mike Scioscia said. "Obviously, we're concerned. This young man's arm is his future."

Mark Petkovsek pitched two shutout innings and Shigatoshi Hasegawa went 1 2/3 innings for his fourth save in nine opportunities.

Vaughn connected in the first off Tomo Ohka (0-2), helping stop Anaheim's longest losing streak of the season at five games. Vaughn had been 4-for-31 (.129) against Boston, the team he left following the 1998 season to sign with Anaheim.

Vaughn, in a 5-for-38 slide coming in, added a pair of singles to finish 3-for-5.

Gant made it 2-0 in the fourth with his first homer since he was acquired from Philadelphia on July 31, then connected again in the sixth off Rich Garces for a 3-1 lead.

It was the 11th multihomer game of Gant's career and the second this season. He homered twice on June 27 against Milwaukee.

"Sure it felt good," Gant said. "But it was just a matter of getting comfortable, settling in. The couple of hits I got in Cleveland (in the Angels' previous series) made me feel a little better about myself. They helped me relax."

Ed Sprague had walked in the fifth, took third on Brian Daubach's double and scored on Mike Lansing's infield grounder to make it 2-1.

Washburn, who allowed three hits, lacked his usual hard stuff -- he failed to strike out a batter for the first time in his 14 starts -- but induced the Red Sox to hit mostly weak balls into the air. His 16 outs included only two infield grounders.

Ohka, recalled from Pawtucket before the game for his second start of the season, was Boston's lone bright spot.

The 24-year-old Japanese right-hander allowed two runs and six hits in five innings, but impressed pitching coach Joe Kerrigan with his effort after a laborious first.

"I'm very pleased," Kerrigan said. "This kid has shown a lot of improvement, from last spring to this point. He settled down and threw the ball very well after the first."

Vaughn's homer was followed by infield singles by Tim Salmon and Garret Anderson. Then Ohko walked Troy Glaus.

"If it hadn't been for that long first inning, he could have pitched into the seventh or eighth," Kerrigan said.

Matt Walbeck drove in Adam Kennedy from third base on a groundout.

Game notes
Before the game, the Angels optioned RHP Brian Cooper to Edmonton. After the game, Anaheim sent OF Edgard Clemente outright to Edmonton and purchased the contract of IF Keith Johnson from the Triple-A club. ...Angels SS Kevin Stocker left in the top of the fourth with a tight left hamstring. ... An MRI of disabled Angels closer Troy Percival's right elbow indicated tendinitis, and he will begin therapy. ... Angels OF Darin Erstad singled in the fourth to snap his longest hitless streak of the season at 13 at-bats. ... Gant hit 20 homers with the Phillies, six since the All-Star break. ... Tim Salmon's first-inning infield single stretched his hitting streak to 15 games, matching his career best (1995). ... RHP Ken Hill, in the final season of a $16.05 million, three-year contract, was released by Anaheim. Hill, 34, was 5-7 with a 6.52 ERA in 16 games this season. ... Bernard Gilkey started at DH -- the 15th player used this season by Boston in that role -- and went 0-for-3. That stretched his slump to 7-for-41.
 


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