Matt Shoemaker goes 5 innings in first game since liner fractured skull

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    Not all athletes who suffer serious head injuries are able to overcome the physical and psychological wounds.

    Exactly seven months after being struck in the head by a line drive that left him with a cracked skull, Matt Shoemaker looked every bit the same pitcher he had been.

    Shoemaker tossed five effective innings in his return to the mound and Danny Espinosa hit a three-run homer in the ninth to rally the Los Angeles Angels past the Oakland Athletics 7-6 on Tuesday night.

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