By MATT HURST, The Press-Enterprise

For fear of being labeled, Los Angeles Angels outfielder Garret Anderson doesn't want to think much about the recent numbers showing that he may be becoming a second-half player.

BALTIMORE -- Think of this: Mark Teixeira, playing first base and hitting in front of designated hitter Manny Ramirez, followed by Vladimir Guerrero and shortstop Miguel Tejada.

Not a bad middle of the lineup, eh?

He's a melange of pirouettes, fist pumps and primordial screams. Francisco Rodriguez is perhaps the most demonstrative pitcher in the majors, punctuating his strikeouts and saves with clenched fists and roars.

If Ervin Santana and Joe Saunders had written "How I Spent My Winter Vacation" essays in spring training, there's a good chance the line "perfecting my pitches so I'm not the odd man out" would have been in both compositions.

BOSTON -- It's called, by those associated with it, "Baseball's Most Beloved Ballpark." But to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Fenway Park has been their own House of Horrors.

Their late-inning meltdowns are well noted, as is the team's losing record here under Manager Mike Scioscia.

SAN DIEGO -- This is hardly the same cookie-cutter story of the hometown boy does good. Instead, it changes directions in the same way a spider's web does, which is appropriate considering how intertwined Billy Volek's family is with Southern California.