BASEBALL/ DAILY REPORT : ANGELS : Snow Makes the Stop on a Bad Hop

First baseman J.T. Snow sat with a huge ice pack encasing his bruised right bicep, wondering what might have happened if Cecil Fielder’s hard-hit, bad-hop grounder in the ninth inning Sunday had missed him and gone into right field.

Snow flung himself into the ball’s path, keeping it on the infield and enabling second baseman Rod Correia to hustle over and throw out the slow-footed Fielder for the inning’s second out. Correia dove at the ball and flipped it to pitcher Joe Grahe, who beat Fielder to the bag. “I had no idea where the ball was,” Snow said. “I was down on the ground and the next thing I know Rod’s right there. That saved the game right there.”

Said Correia: “I just knew who was running. I knew Cecil wasn’t fast, to put it mildly. The ball just hit something and exploded on (Snow). I grabbed it, dove and threw it all in one motion.”

Alan Trammell then grounded out to end the game with runners on second and third.