Blue Jays Give Angels Some Deep Thoughts : Baseball: Toronto gets to Boskie for three home runs in two innings to key a 6-5 victory.

General Manager Bill Bavasi may be scouring the rosters of non-contending teams for a pitcher to boost the Angels’ starting rotation, but Manager Marcel Lachemann is not ready to give up on right-hander Shawn Boskie yet.

Though Boskie gave up three home runs in the Angels’ 6-5 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday night before an announced Anaheim Stadium crowd of 14,163, Lachemann gave Boskie (6-2) a vote of confidence.

“He didn’t pitch well, but if you’re going to crucify him over one outing . . .” Lachemann said. “You can make something out of it, but I’m not.

“He made some bad pitches and left some balls up. I don’t care where Toronto is in the standings, they have some very productive hitters. I don’t take them lightly.”

Boskie had given up only three home runs in 50 1/3 innings before the game but surrendered three in two innings Wednesday night.

With two out in the top of the fifth, Roberto Alomar, who had his first four-hit game of the season, broke a 2-2 tie by lining a bases-empty homer over the right-field fence.

Joe Carter followed with a towering fly ball that reached the seats beyond the left-field fence for a 4-2 Toronto lead. It was the first time this season the Angels have given up back-to-back home runs.

Ed Sprague doubled to open the sixth and Shawn Green, mired in a seven-for-54 slump (.130) the last 20 games, followed with a two-run blast to right field, his seventh homer of the season, to put Toronto ahead, 6-2.

A three-run home run by Tony Phillips off Blue Jay starter Pat Hentgen brought the Angels to within 6-5 in the bottom of the seventh, but the Angels couldn’t complete the comeback against Toronto reliever Tony Castillo, who shut out the Angels over the final 2 1/3 innings.

“It’s surprising to see the results they’ve had with the lineup they put on the field,” Boskie said of the Blue Jays, who are in last place in the American League East. “I can’t see them struggling all year long. But any big league team you face, you start throwing balls up in the middle of the strike zone, and you’re going to get crushed.”

Boskie wasn’t the only Angel out of kilter Wednesday. The Angels also committed three errors, including two by Phillips at third base.

None of the miscues led to Blue Jay runs, but it was a sloppy performance for a team that ranks second in the American League with a .985 fielding percentage.

The Angels, however, maintained sole possession of first place in the AL West because of Texas’ loss to Cleveland.

They had a chance to tie the score Wednesday when Rex Hudler opened the ninth with a single. But Orlando Palmeiro’s sacrifice bunt attempt went back to Castillo, who made a strong throw to second to force Hudler. Pinch-hitter Spike Owen flied to center and Gary DiSarcina grounded to second to end the game.

Hudler and Palmeiro had sparked the Angels’ seventh-inning rally, Hudler leading off with a single and Palmeiro, batting for second baseman Damion Easley, slapping a single to left that put runners on first and second.

Jorge Fabregas looped a ball to shallow center field, where Toronto’s Devon White rushed in, got his glove on the ball and dropped it. But Hudler was heading back to second as White came on and couldn’t turn around and make it to third before White’s throw, which resulted in an 8-5 forceout.

DiSarcina flied to center for the second out, but Phillips sent a Hentgen pitch over the wall in center for his 11th home run of the season.

The night began with promise for the Angels. They took a 2-0 lead in the first inning when Phillips doubled to left, Greg Myers walked, and J.T. Snow lined a two-out, two-run double to left.

Snow is hitting .455 (15-33) in the past eight games and is batting .312 with 50 RBIs, which ranks fifth in the league. But he almost lost his hot bat in the fourth inning.

After a swing and a miss, the bat slipped out of Snow’s hands and soared about 10 rows back behind the first base dugout, striking Angel fan Stephanie Berry of Upland in the head.

Berry was carried off on a stretcher and transported to UC Irvine Medical Center, where she received stitches for a cut on her head and precautionary X-rays and was listed in good condition.