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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Rick Ankiel's brief career has gotten far
more attention than Mark Redman's. Some of Redman's teammates think
their left-hander is also one of the majors' top young pitchers.
Redman won the matchup of rookie left-handers Sunday, leading
the Minnesota Twins over Ankiel and the St. Louis Cardinals 5-2.
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Reports: Lankford's brother murdered
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- A 19-year-old man who died Sunday of
gunshot wounds was identified as the brother of St. Louis Cardinals
outfielder Ray Lankford
, according to broadcast reports.
Percibal Thomley was shot in the head at about 10 p.m. Saturday,
police Officer Sherry Rumsey said. Thomley was taken to Los Angeles
County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where he died Sunday, police
Sgt. James Kimoto said.
Police could not confirm whether Thomley was Lankford's brother,
but three St. Louis television stations reported that he was.
Lankford's aunt, Geraldine Blackwell, who spoke to KTVI-TV in
St. Louis, said in a telephone interview that Thomley was shot on
"a heavy gang street."
"They tell us he went out to the car to get something, just
before they got ready to go out, and they said someone was standing
there waiting and shot him in the back of the head," Blackwell
told the station. "Another friend said they think they mistook him
for someone else, but they don't know."
Brad Hainje, the Cardinals' media relations assistant director,
said that Lankford left the team Sunday morning "for personal
reasons to attend to a family matter in California." He declined
to elaborate.
Lankford missed Sunday's game against the Twins and will miss
"the next couple of games," Hainje said.
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"When Redman throws strikes, he's pretty tough to hit. Sitting
out there in center field, it reminded me of David Wells with his
curveball," said Minnesota's Denny Hocking, who was 1-for-3 with
an RBI and a run scored.
Redman (7-4) struck out seven in seven innings and allowed two
runs on five hits. He didn't allow a hit until Eric Davis opened
the fifth with a bloop single to center.
St. Louis faced Redman for the first time and not all the
Cardinals were prepared.
"Who was that pitcher?" St. Louis outfielder Shawon Dunston
asked. "Is he a rookie? Somebody taught him how to pitch in and
out."
Cardinals manager Tony La Russa wasn't surprised that Redman
turned in such a strong outing.
"He pitched better than Ankiel," La Russa said. "He's the
winning pitcher and he deserved it. He pitched effectively."
Redman used a sinker, curveball and fastball to keep the ball in
the strike zone. Of his 116 pitches, 73 were strikes.
Eddie Guardado got two outs for his fifth save in as many
chances.
Ankiel (6-5) gave up four runs and seven hits in six innings,
yielding to Matt Morris to start the seventh.
"Both guys I thought threw the ball pretty darn good," said
Twins coach Ron Gardenhire, filling in for manager Tom Kelly, who
is in Florida with his ailing father. "We had a tough time with
Ankiel."
Ankiel, who was pitching on nine days rest and hasn't won in
four starts, said the long layoff wasn't a factor.
"You don't think about it," Ankiel said. "I just didn't make
pitches when I needed to."
Redman won his second straight start. He stumbled after starting
the season 4-0.
"You have to go out there and be aggressive, like I had been
for my first couple of starts this year," Redman said.
Jay Canizaro and Midre Cummings each had two hits and an RBI for
the Twins, who won for just the third time in 12 games.
"Ankiel got the ball up just a little bit and we were able to
take advantage of it," Hocking said.
Minnesota took a 3-0 lead in the fourth, starting the inning
with consecutive singles by Hocking, Matt Lawton and David Ortiz.
Ortiz's hit scored Hocking, and the Twins increased their lead
on Canizaro's RBI single and Jason Maxwell's sacrifice fly.
St. Louis, which leads the majors with 157 homers, failed to hit
a home run for just the 17th time in 91 games.
"Beating a top team always feels good because their payroll is
like $60 million and ours is like $16 (million)," Guardado said.
Edgar Renteria drove in two runs with a double in the eighth.
Travis Miller came on to strike out Jim Edmonds, who struck out for
the third time in the game.
"Jim's got to put that ball in play," La Russa said. "That's
a bad strikeout."
Game
notes
Twins catchers have thrown out 22 percent (11-for-49) of
runners trying to steal. ... Canizaro made the third out in the
fourth inning when he walked off second base after he thought he
was tagged out by Placido Polanco. He was called safe when he
returned to second after Maxwell's sacrifice fly. The play was
later ruled a 7-2-4 double play. ... Minnesota's Cristian Guzman
hit his major league-leading 13th triple in the fifth. He is three
shy of tying Rod Carew's team record set in 1977. ... The game drew
30,116 to the Metrodome, the third-largest crowd of the year.
Combined with the 36,688 on Saturday, it was the first time this
season the Twins have had home crowds of 30,000 or more in
back-to-back games.
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