WORLD SERIES NOTEBOOK: LACKEY GETS THE CALL.(Sports)(Statistical Data Included)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: October 27, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Jill Painter Staff Writer

ANAHEIM - Angels catcher Bengie Molina said there's nothing he needs to do to help prepare rookie John Lackey for today's game. Yeah, right. It's only the biggest game in Angels history. The most significant game Lackey, 24, might ever pitch.

Lackey will start for the Angels in Game 7 today at Edison Field and Livan Hernandez gets the call for the Giants.

No one could've been prepared for this one, not after the Angels trailed by five runs in the seventh inning of Game 6 on Saturday. But the Angels did what they always seem to do - ...

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