Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Tim Lincecum, right, watches as Seattle Mariners’ Mike Zunino (3) rounds the bases after Zunino hit a three-run home run to score Adam Lind and Nelson Cruz during the first inning of a baseball game, Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, in Seattle.
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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: The Angels have now dropped eight of 10 on the road, are 2-6 in their last eight games versus American League West rivals, and are 0-7 in their last seven road games versus a team with a winning record.
Pitching in his hometown for just the second time in his career, Lincecum nearly didn’t make it out of the first inning after giving up seven hits and bringing 10 batters to the plate. Shoemaker took the loss against Seattle during his very 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.
Matt Shoemaker (6-12) allowed three runs and seven hits in seven innings, striking out three, but hitting three batters.
“I think we haven’t really digested some stuff, but we’re going to have to see what it is to get him where he needs to be”, Angels manager Mike Scioscia said, adding “we’re going to have to sit down and review his video and see where the positives were and see what we are”. Martin allowed only two hits, one of them an infield single. He didn’t miss the fourth changeup thrown at his knees.
Seattle erased a 1-0 deficit with three runs in the fourth inning, although the Angels prevented a bigger inning with two stellar defensive plays.
“He just lost his release point”, Scioscia said.
In the hours after hitting his first home run of the season and second of his career – last Wednesday night in a defeat against the Red Sox – Shawn O’Malley joked that if that ball hadn’t gone out over the wall at Safeco Field, he would have had to rethink his offseason workout plan.
Tom Wilhelmsen got the final two outs for his first save since October 4, 2015.
After consecutive singles to begin the sixth, Skaggs issued a walk to load the bases for Gutierrez, who had not made an out in three prior at-bats. He went eight innings for the first time since last season.
Rookie Edwin Diaz struck out the side in the ninth for his third save in three chances.
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SEATTLE (AP) Mike Trout did his part to upstage Seattle’s celebration for Ken Griffey Jr. Richards received a stem-cell injection in May in an attempt to avoid Tommy John surgery. Seattle answered in the third with Guillermo Heredia’s first big-league homer – a solo blast to left off Angels’ starter Tyler Skaggs. Walker was sidelined by tendinitis in his right foot.
