Angels Beat Brewers on Walk in 10th : Baseball: Stevens scores on a bases<i> -</i> loaded walk to Ducey, his first run batted in with new team, for a 1-0 victory.

Rob Ducey’s first run batted in as an Angel proved a winning one, and he didn’t even take his bat off his shoulder.

Ducey’s bases-loaded walk against former Angel Mike Fetters with one out in the 10th inning Tuesday sent Lee Stevens home with the only run, giving the Angels a 1-0 victory before 21,142 at Anaheim Stadium.

Stevens, a replacement at first base after Rene Gonzales was hit on the hand by a pitch and was taken for X-rays, hit a roller off the end of his bat for a double with one out in the ninth against Jaime Navarro (12-8). The Brewers walked Von Hayes intentionally, and the Angels sent up Ken Oberkfell. Milwaukee countered with reliever Fetters, who had a 0.65 earned-run average.

But this time, Fetters didn’t come through. He gave up a single to Oberkfell on his first pitch and walked Ducey on four consecutive pitches. The RBI was Ducey’s first of the season, after playing 29 games with the Blue Jays and seven with the Angels.

Angel starter Chuck Finley walked three and struck out five in the first nine innings. Joe Grahe, who gave up one hit in the 10th, improved to 4-3.

Five Brewer runners were caught stealing, one short of the American League record for a game, set on May 12, 1915, by the St. Louis Browns and equaled by the White Sox on June 18, 1915.

Luis Polonia was caught stealing once and is tied for the AL lead with Baltimore’s Brady Anderson, at 40 steals each.

Gonzales, perhaps the Angels’ most consistent all-around player this season, left the game for a pinch hitter during the seventh inning after being struck on the left hand by a pitch.

Both teams tried to use their speed to score in the early innings, but neither succeeded. The Brewers, who began the game with a major league-leading 161 stolen bases, managed to pull off a double steal in the first inning with two out, but Kevin Seitzer’s fly to center ended that threat.

Milwaukee had two hits over the first four innings, both singles by Paul Molitor. Molitor’s single to left in the first preceded a full-count walk drawn by former Angel Dante Bichette, and the two stole third and second, respectively, with Seitzer at the plate. The steal was Molitor’s 22nd and Bichette’s 11th. Seitzer entered the game with a batting average of .255 with runners in scoring position and two out, and he only lowered that average when he flied to Junior Felix in center.

The Brewers had two runners on base during the fourth but ran themselves out of a productive inning. Molitor led off with a single through the left side, his 13th hit in 35 August at-bats. But he was picked off by Finley, whose throw to first baseman Gary Gaetti was relayed to shortstop Gary DiSarcina for the tag.

After Bichette struck out, Seitzer walked on a full count. He was caught stealing, this time on a throw from catcher Ron Tingley to second baseman Luis Sojo.

Luis Polonia, the AL’s stolen base leader, tried to get things started for the Angels in the bottom of the first when he beat out a chopper up the middle. Brewer catcher B.J. Surhoff, however, got off a strong throw when Polonia tried to steal second and shortstop Pat Listach tagged Polonia out. That marked the 15th time Polonia was caught stealing this season.

Polonia led off the fourth inning with a single to left, but nothing came of that for the Angels. Sojo flied to right and Felix grounded into a double play to end the inning.

The Brewers got a runner to third during the fifth inning, after designated hitter John Jaha walked, stole second, and advanced on Surhoff’s grounder to second. Scott Fletcher then popped to DiSarcina in short left field.

Wildness by Navarro put Angels on first and second with none out in the fifth. Navarro hit Gaetti on the left arm and then hit Gonzales in almost the same spot, prompting Gonzales to gesture toward Surhoff before he strode toward first. No hostilities erupted, no runs scored, either. Third baseman Kevin Seitzer made a good play on a bunt by Von Hayes, double-pumping before throwing to Listach covering third for the force on Gaetti. Tingley grounded into a double play started by second baseman Fletcher.

Singles by Bichette and Jaha during the seventh gave Milwaukee its first two-hit inning against Finley, but the Angel left-hander didn’t yield. Bichette’s single led off the inning, and after Seitzer flied to right, Jaha singled to left to move Bichette to second. Bichette tagged and went to third on Greg Vaughn’s fly to right, but Surhoff’s grounder to Sojo ended that threat.