After sitting on the bench all night, Howie Kendrick took a very basic approach to pinch-hitting in the ninth inning of a tie game: go after the first fastball over the plate. The result was the most basic a stat line as Kendrick could have produced for the Los Angeles Angels: one inning played, one at-bat, one pitch seen and one game-winning hit. "Pinch-hitting is hard, man," Kendrick said. "You ask any guy in this room who hits and they'll tell you it's hard to come off the bench when you haven't been playing." Kendrick broke a tie in the top of the ninth inning with a two-run single off closer Brandon League, and the Angels rallied from a 4-0 deficit for a 6-4 win over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night. Read more: http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=320525112&teams=los-angeles-angels-vs-seattle-mariners
