BASEBALL DAILY REPORT

It was a a move every manager in baseball would have made. With a runner on third in the seventh inning of a tied game, Angel Manager Marcel Lachemann chose to intentionally walk Detroit’s Cecil Fielder and pitch to Tony Clark, a 24-year-old rookie.

So Clark belted a Mike James pitch into the left-center field bleachers for a three-run home run, snapping a 5-5 tie and propelling the Tigers to a 10-5 victory.

“Clark went out and got that pitch, and he made the decision to walk Fielder wrong, but you don’t want Cecil to beat you in that situation,” Lachemann said.

James, the set-up man whose earned run average hovered in the 1.70 range for the first three months of the season, has given up 13 earned runs in his last 17 appearances over 20 1/3 innings and his earned run average is 2.95.

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Strong comments by Rex Hudler and J.T. Snow Tuesday sparked a team meeting before Wednesday’s game, in which an apparent lack of communication between Manager Marcel Lachemann and the players was addressed.

Snow, the team’s first baseman, was upset that he was not given an explanation for not starting for the second consecutive game. Hudler, who replaced Snow and made an error in the Angels’ 12-9 loss, second-guessed Lachemann’s decision to sit Snow.

“We’re not good losers, we want to win, and sometimes when you’re worked up after a bad loss you say things in the heat of the battle,” Hudler said. “But I repented to the manager, told him I’m sorry, and he forgave me. I feel much better, like I’ve been to confession.”