1.   Right-hander Ismael Valdes started and pitched three innings.

2.   And perhaps more importantly, Williams needs healthy starters to pitch extended innings in the final month of the season.

3.   Angels starter Mark Langston pitched eight innings and did not allow a run between the first and eighth innings.

4.   Arrojo will pitch an inning Thursday for Sarasota in the hope of returning Saturday to Boston, where he would work out of the bullpen.

5.   But two pitchers of recent vintage particularly suffered because they pitched every inning of a nine-inning game, yet were stripped of the distinction.

6.   Clemens pitched seven innings and had good enough stuff to win.

7.   Clemens started and pitched four innings, silencing the Rangers without a hit.

8.   Clemens, in his third start of the season, pitched six innings and allowed three runs, two on fifth-inning homers by Gonzalez and Paul Molitor.

9.   Dennis Cook relieved him in the seventh and pitched an inning.

10.   Dreifort pitched seven innings and allowed just one hit, a second-inning single by Javy Lopez.