Orioles Roll Over Angels : Baseball: Fernandez earns second victory of season against California as Baltimore romps, 9-2.

Against the rest of the league, Sid Fernandez is just another veteran pitcher making a lot of money with a well-directed mixture of not-so-fast fastball, decent curveball and changeup.

Against the Angels, he’s Hall-of-Fame material.

The rotund left-hander brought a 5-4 record and a less-than-awesome 4.96 earned-run average to the mound Friday night and immediately went into his Sandy Koufax impersonation.

The last time the Angels faced him, tbey managed only three hits in 8 1/3 innings. Heck, they really must have had him figured out that night.

Friday night at Anaheim Stadium, the Angels couldn’t muster a hit until J.T. Snow lined a double to left with one out in the fifth inning as the Orioles rolled to a 9-2 victory in front of 18,886.

The Angels are 16-27 at home and 15 games below .500 overall. Maybe they were still mourning the loss of beloved coach Jimmie Reese, whose memorial service was attended by the entire team Friday.

Or maybe Fernandez just has the stuff to render their offense completely listless.

Fernandez, who earned his first victory of the season in a 6-4 decision at Anaheim on April 28, had the Angels totally befuddled and bedazzled this time around. He gave up a two-run homer to Bo Jackson in the seventh inning, but he probably cooled off a bit while sitting on the bench for almost 30 minutes and watching his teammates put together their second three-run inning of the evening.

Maybe he just lost interest. Pitching against the Angels is hardly a challenge for him. Angel batters, who got four hits in seven innings against him Friday, are 11 for 74 against Fernandez since he came over to the American League after 10 seasons with the New York Mets and one with the Dodgers.

Phil Leftwich, making his fourth start since returning from a stint on the disabled list because of an inflamed lower leg, had averaged seven innings and three earned runs in the first three outings after coming back to the rotation.

He lost two of those games, but still elicited praise from Manager Marcel Lachemann as “a staff saver.”

Leftwich allowed the first batter he faced, center fielder Brady Anderson, to score and gave up five runs in 5 2/3 innings. And when the Orioles got to the Angels’ bullpen, the game really got out of hand.

Baltimore roughed up Joe Magrane for three runs in the seventh and picked up another against Mike Butcher, who was optioned to triple-A Vancouver after the game, in the ninth.

The Orioles scored a run in the first when Anderson tripled down the right-field line and scored on Rafael Palmeiro’s sacrifice fly to right. It was the 13th first-inning run given up by Leftwich in 16 starts this season.

Fernandez struck out two Angels in the first, two in the second and two in the fourth and had retired 12 in a row when Snow broke up his no-hit bid.

Fernandez retired five more Angels in a row before Chili Davis led off the seventh with a single to right and Bo Jackson followed with a towering 441-foot shot into the bleachers in right-center. It was Jackson’s first homer since June 8.

Baltimore took a 4-0 lead in the fifth inning. Jeffrey Hammonds led off with a walk and stole second. He took third on Mark McLemore’s slow roller to third and scored when Anderson’s high pop fly to right managed to fall between second baseman Damion Easley and right fielder Tim Salmon. And then Chris Sabo deposited Leftwich’s 1-0 delivery over the left-field fence.

Hammonds’ run-scoring double in the sixth inning chased Leftwich and Lachemann opted for Magrane, who was making only the fifth relief appearance of his career. It didn’t last too long. By the time he had retired two Orioles, Baltimore led, 8-0.

Anderson singled to lead off the seventh, Sabo walked, Palmiero doubled in one run, Cal Ripken Jr. singled home another, and Palmiero scored on Harold Baines’ groundout.