ANAHEIM, 11 June 2003 — Vincente Padilla threw seven shutout innings as Jimmy Rollins and Jim Thome both homered to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-0 win over the Anaheim Angels in the only major league baseball game on Monday.
Padilla (5-7) allowed just five hits, struck out two and walked one to help the Phillies win the first-ever meeting between the two teams in interleague play.
It was not a good night for Anaheim sports fans, as the crowd of 25,902 groaned loudly when it was announced in the third inning that the Anaheim Mighty Ducks had lost Game Seven of the Stanley Cup finals to the New Jersey Devils, by the same 3-0 score.
Rheal Cormier tossed a scoreless eighth for the Phillies and Jose Mesa’s perfect ninth inning earned him his 16th save and 103rd of his career, tying Steve Bedrosian’s team record. Jarrod Washburn (6-6) took the loss. He allowed three runs on eight hits in 7 2/3 innings.
Thome’s RBI single in the sixth broke a scoreless tie and Rollins and Thome both homered in the eighth to give the Phillies all the offense they would need.
Mike Lieberthal also had two hits for the Phillies. Scott Spiezio had three of Anaheim’s six hits.
Sammy Sosa Appeal
Hearing Set
In Chicago, Sammy Sosa have the appeal of his eight-game suspension for using a corked bat heard in Baltimore yesterday, the team announced on Monday.
Bob DuPuy, chief operating officer of major league baseball, will hear the appeal of the Cubs slugger, who was caught using a corked bat in a game June 3 against Tampa Bay.
Sosa was suspended last week for eight games by Bob Watson, baseball’s vice president in charge of discipline, but he has the right to continue playing until the appeal is heard and a decision is made.
He played on the weekend in an Interleague series against the New York Yankees. The Cubs was open a series in Baltimore yesterday night. The team doesn’t expect an immediate decision, so Sosa may play in at least the opener of the series.
Sosa claimed immediately after the game in question that the illegal bat was one he used only for batting practice and that he mistakenly used it in the game. Major League Baseball then ran tests on 76 bats taken from Sosa’s locker and five more of his on display at the Hall of Fame, but found no foreign substances.
