The sweep was the first of the Angels by Seattle since September 26-28, 2014.
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O’Malley bounced back quickly by getting an opportunity to play for the Seattle Mariners, who play in his home state of Washington, and he’s made the most of it.
Angels: 3B Yunel Escobar, who injured his left knee on the final play Saturday, was scratched Sunday from the leadoff spot after the knee bothered him during pregame warm-ups.
Seattle Mariners’ Mike Zunino (3) is greeted at the plate by Adam Lind, left, after Zunino hit a three-run home run to score Lind and Nelson Cruz during the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, in Seattle. In most cases, these lead to the player being released, though given Lincecum’s track record, I suppose a team could look to acquire him on the cheap via trade. “But I’m a Mariner now”.
The only thing the Mariners couldn’t script Saturday in an otherwise smoothly executed program to retire Ken Griffey Jr.’s No. 24 was an appropriate performance in the game that followed. “It was pretty loud”, O’Malley said.
O’Malley hit his second home run of the season to put the Mariners ahead 8-6 on a night when Mike Trout belted a first-inning homer that gave Los Angeles a 3-0 lead for the second straight game.
Los Angeles Angels’ Johnny Giavotella singles in a run against the Seattle Mariners in the fourth inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016, in Seattle.
Angels manager Mike Scioscia said he liked what he saw during of the short time that O’Malley was with Los Angeles.
Mike Trout then crushed a three-run homer. The Mariners are 3-8 in their last 11 during game 3 of a series and 1-4 in Paxtons last 5 starts.
Both starting pitchers struggled.
An injury-riddled starting rotation put the Los Angeles Angels in the market for starting pitching early this season, and they brought in two-time Cy Young Award victor Tim Lincecum after he a promising workout where he showed he was full recovered from hip surgery. “I covered first. So now I’ve just got to really focus in on my fastball command”.
Angels: Tyler Skaggs (1-0) makes his third start of the season. Scioscia said Lincecum was “pragmatic” upon receiving the news.
Rookie Edwin Diaz struck out the side in the ninth for his third save in three chances, hitting triple digits a few times. Seattle closer Edwin Diaz likely will be unavailable for Sunday’s finale after collecting his first four career saves over the last five days.3. Trout’s homer went 444 feet. Seattle started with four straight singles, including an RBI base hit by Robinson Cano.
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Los Angeles (49-61) opened the scoring in the top of the third, turning a one-out error by shortstop Shawn O’Malley into an unearned run via Kole Calhoun’s two-out single. Shoemaker took the loss against Seattle during his bad opening month in April, yielding six earned runs in three frames.Paxton was brilliant in a no-decision versus Boston on Monday, surrendering only a solo homer among the four hits he allowed over eight innings.
