American League

WHO'S HOT Frank Thomas, Chicago White Sox: Batting .478 with 22 hits, 3 home runs and 10 RBIs. Jason Giambi, Oakland Athletics: Batting .389 with 5 home runs and 17 RBIs. Pedro Martinez, Boston Red Sox: Record of 2-0 with 0.63 ERA, 23 strikeouts in 14 innings. WHO'S NOT Tim Salmon, Angels: Batting .194 with 1 home run and 1 RBI in 31 at-bats. Tony Clark, Detroit Tigers: Batting .176 with 4 RBIs and 3 run in 34 at-bats. David Cone, New York Yankees: Record of 0-1 with 14.

Ask Mike Trout about the two hits, two runs and one stolen base he had Sunday and he'll point you to two other numbers, the ones that showed the Angels had lost again. Ask him about the recent six-game tear in which he had four two-hit games and 10 runs batted in and he'll remind you the Angels won only two of those games. And should you bring up the fact he leads the team in RBIs, steals, doubles, triples and runs he'll tell you the Angels are nine games under .500 for the first time in nearly seven years.

It didn't take David Justice long to adjust to American League pitching. Justice, making his AL debut only eight days after being traded from Atlanta, hit a tie-breaking two-run homer in the seventh inning to give Cleveland a season-opening 9-7 win Wednesday night over the Oakland Athletics. Justice, who also tripled and singled, had an RBI groundout in Cleveland's four-run first inning and tripled as the Indians, despite a radically changed lineup, showed they still have plenty of power.

The Angels take a major league-worst 5.43 earned-run average into Friday night's game against the Detroit Tigers, but pitching is by no means the only problem for an underachieving club that has won only four of 14 games. The offense has posted some decent numbers, hitting .268 (fourth in the American League) with a .326 on-base percentage (sixth) and .419 slugging percentage (third), but hasn't produced much in the clutch. The Angels are batting a major league-low .155 (16 for 103)

Here's a team-by-team look at the American League, with teams listed in order of predicted finish: WEST SEATTLE MARINERS WHO'S NEW: 1B--Paul Sorrento, 3B--Russ Davis, P--Sterling Hitchcock, Mike Jackson. WHO'S GONE: 1B--Tino Martinez, 3B--Mike Blowers, OF--Vince Coleman, P--Andy Benes, Tim Belcher, Jeff Nelson, Bill Risley. STRENGTHS: The middle of the lineup, with Ken Griffey, Edgar Martinez and Jay Buhner, may be baseball's best. The lead-off platoon of Darren Bragg/Rich Amaral and No.

Teams in order of predicted finish: * West TEXAS RANGERS * WHO'S NEW: CF Otis Nixon, DH Mickey Tettleton, 2B Mark McLemore, P Bob Tewksbury, P Kevin Gross, P Jeff Russell, P Roger McDowell, C Dave Valle. * WHO'S GONE: DH Jose Canseco, P Kevin Brown, P Tom Henke, CF David Hulse, SS Manuel Lee.

The memories could last a lifetime. You could tell the kids, and the grandkids, about the tingles in the Dodgers' season opener. Sandy Koufax shyly emerged from the dugout to throw out the first pitch, serenaded and beloved. Clayton Kershaw dominated on the mound, as unhittable today as Koufax was in his day. Yet, Dodger Stadium did not erupt into bedlam until the eighth inning, when Kershaw ended a scoreless tie by launching a home run that instantly became part of Dodgers lore.

CINCINNATI - Mike Scioscia has managed enough games in National League ballparks to have pulled off dozens of double switches and even a few triple switches, but this was the first time the Angels skipper could remember a quadruple shift. It came in the 11th inning of the Angels' 3-1, 13-inning, season-opening win over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday, a game in which Scioscia exhausted his bench and used six of his seven relievers. First baseman and No. 3 hitter Albert Pujols, who is recovering from knee surgery and has been slowed by a sore left foot, led off the 11th inning with a walk and was replaced by pinch-runner Andrew Romine.

Bob Turley, 82, a hard-throwing right-handed pitcher who won the Cy Young Award in 1958 after rallying the New York Yankees past the Milwaukee Braves in the World Series, died of liver cancer Saturday in Atlanta, his family told the Baltimore Sun. Turley pitched one season for the Baltimore Orioles, 1954, leading the American League with 185 strikeouts while compiling a 14-15 record and a 3.46 earned-run average. Then "Bullet Bob," as he came to be known, was traded to the Yankees in a 17-player deal that also sent pitcher Don Larsen to New York.

Major League Baseball will not expand its instant replay system this year, according to Joe Torre, the league's executive vice president of baseball operations. Commissioner Bud Selig told the Los Angeles Times four months ago that expanded replay would be in place for the 2013 season "for sure. " Torre told The Times that the timetable has been delayed one year. "Next year, there will be something, for sure," Torre said. "It's not like we're afraid to do something. I don't want to do something unless we feel like it's the right thing to do. " Torre, who is Selig's point man on the issue, said he understood the commissioner's oft-stated intention to broaden the replay system to include calls of fair balls, foul balls and trapped balls.

Former major league slugger Frank Thomas, who is eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame next year, let it be known that he's glad he thrived through hard work rather than taking the easier route and using performance-enhancing drugs. During the Chicago White Sox's fan fest on Saturday, Thomas said that former stars such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens will have to live with the consequences of using banned substances. The repercussion appears to be they'll never be enshrined in Cooperstown.

Tampa Bay Rays left-hander David Price and New York Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey have won the Cy Young Awards in their respective leagues. Price edged last year's Cy Young winner, Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers, by drawing 14 of the 28 first-place votes in the American League. Verlander received 13 first-place votes and Rays closer Fernando Rodney, who finished fifth in the voting, received the other. It was the second-closest balloting in Cy Young history, after the 1969 tie between Mike Cuellar of the Baltimore Orioles and Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers.

The Angels would not necessarily have tried harder to retain Torii Hunter if they had been able to trade Vernon Wells, General Manager Jerry Dipoto said Wednesday. Hunter agreed Wednesday to a two-year, $26-million contract with the defending American League champion Detroit Tigers. The deal is expected to be announced after he takes a physical examination Friday. Hunter, who made his major league debut in 1997, has yet to play in a World Series. If Bobby Abreu does not play next season, Carlos Lee will be the only active major league player to play in more games than Hunter without a World Series appearance, according to baseball-reference.com.

There was no doubt Angels center fielder Mike Trout would win the American League rookie-of-the-year award; the only question was by how much. That answer came Monday when the league announced Trout had garnered all 28 first-place votes on Baseball Writers Assn. of America ballots to win the award in a landslide over Oakland outfielder Yoenis Cespedes and Texas pitcher Yu Darvish. Trout is the second player in Angels history to win rookie of the year, joining outfielder Tim Salmon (1993)