The Angels’ offense was stifled in a 3-1 extra-innings loss to the Seattle Mariners during their home opener Friday night in front of a sold-out crowd.
In a scoreless game in the 10th inning, Seattle’s Cole Young led with a triple to the right-field corner off Angels reliever Brent Suter that scored Luke Raley from second base. After intentionally walking Julio Rodríguez with two outs, Josh Naylor drove in two more runs to make it 3-0.
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Jorge Soler drove in Mike Trout on a sacrifice fly to right field in the bottom of the 10th, but that was all the Angels (3-5) could muster after Seattle held them to just one hit and retired the final 21 Angels batters.
In the first inning, Trout stared down Mariners starter Bryan Woo before taking first base after a sinker hit the star outfielder’s left shoulder. The blow came after the right-hander threw a four-seam fastball that nearly missed Trout’s face.
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The first hit came in the bottom of the third after Oswald Peraza sent a bloop single to right field. Woo cleared the base paths after picking off the runner for the second out of the inning. Zach Neto grounded to third-basemen Brendan Donovan to stop the Angels’ offense.
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Detmers, who pitched 6⅔ innings and lowered his ERA to 2.38, threw a fastball behind Rodríguez to open the top of the fourth inning. The outfielder stared down the lefty and later grounded out to first baseman Nolan Schanuel. Seattle threatened to break the tie after Naylor reached first and Randy Arozarena followed with a single to right field.
Neto threw a ground ball hit by Brendan Donovan to Yoán Moncada at third to record the second out of the top of the fourth. Detmers struck out J.P. Crawford to end the inning.
Angels star Mike Trout is hit by a pitch during the first inning Friday against the Mariners. (Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press)
Trout almost ended the pitchers’ duel in the bottom of the sixth after sharply hitting a flyball to left field but Arozarena tracked it down.
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After a one-out walk to Crawford in the top of the seventh, Detmers picked off the runner but gave up a single to Victor Robles. The hit concluded his night after 104 pitches. Right-hander Chase Silseth struck out Young to end the bottom of the seventh.
In the eighth, Drew Pomeranz gave up a one-out walk to Cal Raleigh and a single to Rodriguez but managed to subdue the offense after retiring Naylor and Arozarena on a flyball and a groundball, respectively.
In the ninth, Jordan Romano threw a fastball that looked like it hit Leo Rivas, but the call was overturned after a challenge confirmed it hit the bat. The right-hander struck out Rivas to record the first out and forced an out from pitch-hitter Raley.
With two outs and two strikes, Trout struck out to send the game to extra innings.
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