Angels Good for What Ails : Baseball: Milwaukee breaks eight-game road losing streak, 4-3. Snow recalled from Vancouver.

The Milwaukee Brewers were supposed to cure whatever ailed the Angels, and it was a lengthy list.

It didn’t work that way in the Angels’ 4-3 loss before 21,331 Friday at Anaheim Stadium.

Milwaukee reliever Mike Fetters got pinch-hitter Bo Jackson to ground into a fielder’s choice to end the game and give the Angels’ their fifth consecutive loss. It was the fourth save for Fetters, a former Angel who had only two the last two seasons.

After the game, the Angels recalled first baseman J.T. Snow and sent Eduardo Perez to triple-A Vancouver, where they will play him at third base. Snow batted .296 with eight home runs and 43 RBIs in 53 games at Vancouver. Perez is batting .209 with five homers and 16 RBIs.

Snow is expected to be in uniform for tonight’s game. Perez was not immediately available for comment.

“We wanted to get him a position that we’re committed to and that he’s committed to,” Manager Marcel Lachemann said of Perez. “We feel this is the best thing for the organization, and unless I misread him (Perez), I think he’s very excited about that.”

There is one more potentially troubling item to the list of Angel woes.

Starter Mark Langston left the game after giving up four runs and four hits in four innings, a dubious beginning to a three-game series against the Central Division’s last-place team. It was announced that Langston suffered from muscle-related elbow stiffness, but it wasn’t related to the arthroscopic surgery performed April 12. Still, the stiffness was in the same elbow, his left, that had been operated on.

“It was tight when I warmed up,” Langston said. “But sometimes that happens and it loosens up during the game. This time, it just got tighter as the game went on. The doctor explained (after the surgery) that there would be times when it just wouldn’t be there.”

Langston couldn’t get loose and couldn’t keep the Brewers under wraps after the second inning. His fourth consecutive disappointing performance ended after only 64 pitches, dropping his record to 2-4 and swelling his earned-run average to 6.12.

In his last four starts, he is 0-4 with an 8.70 ERA.

By the fifth inning, Langston was gone, replaced by Mark Leiter, who faced a 4-2 deficit. Milwaukee’s lead was cut to 4-3 in the fifth inning when Jim Edmonds singled home Chad Curtis from second base.

Langston had breezed through the first six batters with ease, striking out three and getting three to fly out weakly. Then he ran into trouble.

B.J. Surhoff led off the third inning by slamming a 1-and-0 pitch over the right-field wall for his second homer of the season.

After a walk to Jody Reed, a strikeout and a fly out, John Jaha homered to left field for a 3-0 Brewer lead.

Langston has given up two homers in an inning in three of his last four starts.

Jose Valentin’s run-scoring single in the fourth inning pushed Milwaukee’s lead to 4-0. It might have been 5-0, but left fielder Edmonds threw out Surhoff at home plate on Valentin’s single.

Catcher Chris Turner withstood a jarring collision on the play, holding onto the ball for the inning’s final out.

It was the first victory on the road in eight games for the Brewers. But Milwaukee Manager Phil Garner hasn’t given up on the season, despite the Brewers’ 4-16 record over the past 20 games, a rash of injuries and the retirement of Robin Yount after 20 seasons.

“It’s not over,” Garner said. “There’s a good chance we can get back into the thick of things. It’s not hopeless.”