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Those waves of fans who streamed toward the Angel Stadium exits after Francisco Rodriguez's blown save in the top of the ninth inning Monday night missed a heck of a finish. Torii Hunter, whose go-ahead home run in the eighth inning looked as if it would be wasted, blasted a grand slam against closer Joe Borowski in the bottom of the inning to lift the Angels to a 6-4 victory over the ... [link]

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Baseball Today: Tuesday, April 8
Published 4/8/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... YESTERDAY'S BEST: Torii Hunter's bottom-of-the-ninth grand slam enabled the Angels to survive a blown save from Francisco Rodriguez and beat the Indians (Los Angeles Times) . . . Miguel Tejada ...

Torii Hunter Knows How to Make New Fans
Published 4/8/2008 by Tom Fornelli at FanHouse
... needs to worry about it too much after the performance he gave in front of Angels fans on Monday. Not only did Hunter give the Angels a 2-1 lead in the 8th inning with a solo home run, he also saved the day in the 9th. After K-Rod gave up three runs to the Indians to blow his first save of the season, Torii came to the rescue with a walk-off grand slam in the 9th. ...

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