Sojo Puts Up With the Bother : Baseball: He hits a two-run double after the Yankees’ Kamieniecki has surprise visitor. The Angels win, 8-4.

A visit to the pitcher’s mound made a difference for the Angels Sunday, but Jim Abbott wasn’t on the field when the complexion of the game took a decidedly strange turn.

Abbott was in the Angels’ dugout, still angry at himself for giving up two runs to the New York Yankees in the first inning, when a woman who works as a topless dancer under the name “Miss Toppsy Curvey” ran onto the field and embraced Yankee pitcher Scott Kamieniecki. Security guards escorted the woman off the field.

Although Kamieniecki later said the woman’s visit was no more of a distraction than “somebody stepping out of the batter’s box or throwing a beach ball out there,” his concentration appeared to be affected. On his first pitch after play resumed, Kamieniecki gave up a two-run double to Luis Sojo that sparked the Angels to an 8-4 victory.

“She shook up the kid on the mound so much he hung the next one,” Angel backup catcher Ron Tingley said. “She did shake him up. She shook up the dugout, that’s for sure.”

Sojo’s double touched off a three-run burst that gave the Angels a 4-2 lead.

“They should put her in jail for a week,” Yankee second baseman Steve Sax said of the woman. “She interrupted (Kamieniecki’s) rhythm. Things went sour after that, that’s all I can tell you.”

Abbott joked that women have pursued Kamieniecki since the two were teammates and road roommates at the University of Michigan. Abbott (9-7) won for the ninth time in his last 12 decisions.

“I don’t know what I would have done if she’d done it to me,” said Abbott, who was replaced by Bryan Harvey in the ninth after the Yankees got two runs on three hits and an error.

“Actually, I thought he was a little too receptive to her. He put his arms around her and everything. I bet it would break his concentration.”

Abbott’s concentration was shaky in the first inning. He gave up a leadoff walk to Bernie Williams, who stole second and scored on Don Mattingly’s opposite-field single to left. Mel Hall doubled home Mattingly. Abbott threw his glove at the wall when he got back to the dugout after wasting Max Venable’s home run in the top of the inning.

“Any time you walk the leadoff batter, you’re going to get yourself in trouble,” said Abbott, who didn’t give up another walk.

“I was upset with myself and I thought I could have made some better pitches. It was a battle throughout the game. I never really felt I had awesome stuff.

“I’m a ground-ball pitcher when I’m pitching well, and I got some ground balls today.”

The Yankees made 11 ground-ball outs and only three fly-ball outs. Abbott struck out six.

“The infield made some great plays behind me, too,” he said. “When the team’s scoring runs, it makes it easier to pitch. When the team’s scoring runs and playing good defense, it really makes it easier.”

Gary Gaetti singled and Lance Parrish was hit by a pitch from Kamieniecki (4-3) in the second inning. Dave Gallagher’s sacrifice attempt failed when he ran into his bunted ball. Sojo had a one-strike count when play was interrupted.

“I was laughing,” Sojo said. “I hear everybody yelling and I think, ‘What’s going on?’ Then I see her. Wow. Maybe she gave me good luck.”

Sojo gave the Angels a 3-2 lead with his line drive over Hall’s glove in left, and Dick Schofield’s single to center drove in Sojo. Dave Parker’s double to right-center field in the fifth brought in Dave Winfield to make the score 5-2.

“We have a long way to go,” Abbott said. “We’ve made it tough for ourselves the last few weeks. We’re going to have to play well and get some breaks along the way.”